Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
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Native nameChhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha
Legislature6th Chhattisgarh Assembly
Term limits5 years
GovernorRamen Deka
Election 131 July 2024
SpeakerRaman Singh
Party 2BJP
Election 213 December 2023
Chief Minister
(Leader of the House)		Vishnu Deo Sai
Party 4BJP
Election 413 December 2023
Deputy Chief Minister
(Deputy Leader of the House)		Arun Sao, BJP
Vijay Sharma, BJP
Election 513 December 2023
Party 6BJP
Election 613 December 2023
Leader of the OppositionCharan Das Mahant
Party 7INC
Election 716 December 2023
Election 8December 2023
Members90
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Political groups 1

Government (54)

Opposition (36)

Voting system 1First past the post
First election 11 December 2003
Last election 17 and 17 November 2023
Next election 12028
Meeting placeVidhan Sabha Bhavan, Capitol Complex Circle (Sector 19), Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh
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Websitecgvidhansabha.gov.in

The Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly or the Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral state legislature of Chhattisgarh state in India.

The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Sector 19, Atal Nagar, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 90 Members of Legislative Assembly, which include 90 members directly elected from single-seat constituencies.[1] Its term is 5 years, unless sooner dissolved.

History

See also: Assembly election results of Chhattisgarh

The state of Chhattisgarh was created by the Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act 2000,[2] approved by the President of India on 25 August 2000. The Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha came into existence with the creation of the state on 1 November 2000. The first session of the Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha was held at Jashpur hall of Rajkumar College in Raipur. Later, the Vidhan Sabha was shifted to the newly constructed Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha Bhavan at Vidhan Nagar, on Raipur–Baloda Bazar Road.[1]
A new building for Vidhan Sabha was being constructed at Sector 19, Atal Nagar behind Indravati Bhawan & Mahanadi Bhawan. The groundbreaking ceremony was done by Bhupesh Baghel on 29 August 2020 in the presence of leaders like Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and other ministers. The construction was halted for 2021 and all tenders were cancelled by the Government of Chhattisgarh due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Chhattisgarh. Later from 2022, construction work resumed.[3][4]

Leaders

TitleNamePortraitSince
GovernorRamen Deka31 July 2024
SpeakerDr. Raman Singh19 December 2023
Leader of the House
(Chief Minister)		Vishnu Deo Sai13 December 2023
Deputy Chief MinisterArun Sao
Vijay Sharma
Leader of OppositionCharan Das Mahant16 December 2023

List of Assemblies

AssemblyYearSpeakerChief MinisterPartyOpposition LeaderParty
1st[a]1998Rajendra Prasad ShuklaAjit JogiINCNand Kumar SaiBJP
2nd2003Prem Prakash PandeyRaman SinghBJPMahendra KarmaINC
3rd2008Dharamlal KaushikRavindra Choubey
4th2013Gaurishankar AgrawalT. S. Singh Deo
5th2018Charan Das MahantBhupesh BaghelINCDharamlal KaushikBJP
Narayan Chandel[5]
6th2023Raman SinghVishnu Deo SaiBJPCharan Das MahantINC

Members of Legislative Assembly

See also: List of constituencies of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly and List of deputy speakers of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly

Past Composition

2003–2008

237150
BSPINCNCPBJP

2008–2013

23850
BSPINCBJP

2013–2018

139491
BSPINCBJPInd

2018–2023

256815
BSPJCCINCBJP

2023–Present

13554
GGPINCBJP

Notes

  1. ^ The first Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh was constituted by the MLA's elected in the 1998 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, whose constituencies were in the newly formed Chhattisgarh.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly". Legislative Bodies in India website. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
  2. ^ "Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000". India Code
  3. ^ "छत्तीसगढ़ में 270 करोड़ में बनेगा नया विधानसभा भवन भूमि पूजन आज" (in Hindi). Nai Dunia. 2020-08-29. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  4. ^ PTI (2021-05-13). "Chhattisgarh cancels tenders for new assembly building, halts construction of major projects". ThePrint. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
  5. ^ "Chhattisgarh BJP appoints new Leader of Opposition" (in en-IN). The Hindu. 2022-08-17. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  6. ^ "The Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2000". 2000. p. 6. Archived 8 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 8 July 2019.

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