The Haryana Legislative Assembly (ISO: Hariyāṇā Vidhāna Sabhā) is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Haryana. The seating of the assembly is at Chandigarh, the capital of the state. There are seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-post voting system. The term of office is five years.

Significance Council of Ministers of Haryana is responsible to Haryana Legislative Assembly.

History The body was founded in 1966, when the state was created from part of the state of Punjab, by the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966. The house initially had 54 seats, ten reserved for scheduled castes, this was increased to 81 seats in March 1967, and to 90 seats (including 17 reserved seats) in 1977. The highest number of seats ever won was in 1977 when Janata Party won 75 out of 90 seats in the aftermath of the 1975–77 emergency by Indian National Congress's (INC) Indira Gandhi. INC won only 3 seats, Vishal Haryana Party and independents both won 5 seats each.

Since the formation of Haryana in 1966, the state politics became infamously dominated by the nepotistic clans of five political dynasts, Lal trio (Devi Lal, Bansi Lal and Bhajan Lal) as well as the Hooda clan and Rao Birender clan. The Mewat region, remotely to the rest of Haryana since its formation, has been dominated by three major political dynasts (Tayyab Husain, Rahim Khan, Khurshid Ahmed). The infamous Aaya Ram Gaya Ram politics, named after Gaya Lal in 1967, of frequent floor-crossing, turncoating, switching parties and political horse trading within short span of time became associated with Haryana.Paras Diwan, 1979, Aya Ram Gaya Ram: The Politics Of Defection, Journal of the Indian Law Institute, Vol. 21, No. 3, July–September 1979, pp. 291-312.

Election Legislative Assembly From To First sitting19621st Assembly 1 November 1966 28 February 1967   6 December 196619672nd Assembly 17 March 1967 21 November 1967   17 March 196719683rd Assembly 15 July 1968 21 January 1972   15 July 196819724th Assembly 3 April 1972 30 April 1977   3 April 197219775th Assembly 4 July 1977 19 April 1982 4 July 197719826th Assembly 24 June 1982 23 June 1987 24 June 198219877th Assembly 9 July 1987 6 April 1991 9 July 198719918th Assembly 9 July 1991 10 May 1996 9 July 199119969th Assembly 22 May 1996 14 December 1999 22 May 1996200010th Assembly 9 March 2000 8 March 2005 9 March 2000200511th Assembly 21 March 2005 21 August 2009 21 March 2005200912th Assembly 28 October 2009 20 October 2014 28 October 2009201413th Assembly 20 October 2014 28 October 2019 27 October 2014201914th Assembly28 October 20198 October 20244 November 2019202415th Assembly8 October 2024

Floor Leaders and Ministers Designation Name Governor Ashim Kumar Ghosh Speaker Harvinder Kalyan Deputy Speaker Krishan Lal Middha Leader of the House Nayab Singh SainiLeader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda Secretary of Legislative Assembly Rajender Kumar Nandal

List of Assemblies The elections for the Haryana Vidhan Sabha are being held since 1967.

YearLegislative Assembly Election Party Chief Minister Seat split 1966First Assembly* Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Constituted out of Punjab assembly1967Second Assembly Total: 81. INC: 48, BJS: 12, Independents: 16 Rao Birender Singh1968Third AssemblyBansi Lal Total: 81. INC: 48, VHP: 16, BJS: 71972Fourth AssemblyTotal: 81. INC: 52, NCO: 12Banarsi Das Gupta1977Fifth Assembly Chaudhary Devi LalTotal: 90. Janata: 75, VHP: 5, INC: 3Bhajan Lal1982Sixth AssemblyBhajan LalTotal: 90. INC: 36, Lok Dal: 31 + BJP: 6, Independents: 16 Bansi Lal1987Seventh AssemblyChaudhary Devi LalTotal: 90. Janata Dal: 60 + BJP: 16, INC: 5 Om Prakash ChautalaBanarsi Das GuptaOm Prakash ChautalaHukam Singh PhogatOm Prakash ChautalaParmanand Adhir1991Eighth AssemblyBhajan Lal Total: 90. INC: 51 1996Ninth AssemblyBansi LalTotal: 90. HVP: 33 + BJP: 11, SAP: 24, INC: 9Om Prakash Chautala2000Tenth Assembly Total: 90. INLD: 47 + BJP: 6, INC: 21 2005Eleventh AssemblyBhupinder Singh Hooda Total: 90. INC: 67, INLD: 92009Twelfth Assembly Total: 90. INC: 40, INLD: 31, HJC(BL): 6, BJP: 42014Thirteenth AssemblyManohar Lal Khattar Total: 90. BJP: 47 (post-defections 52), INLD: 19, INC: 152019Fourteenth Assembly Total: 90. BJP: 40, INC: 31, JJP: 10, Others: 92024Fifteenth AssemblyNayab Singh Saini Total: 90. BJP: 48, INC: 37, INLD:2, Others: 3

Members of the Legislative Assembly

See also Aaya Ram Gaya Ram Dynastic politics of Haryana Elections in Haryana

References

External links

Map of Haryana Assembly constituencies , created by Haryana Space Applications Centre, Hisar