The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Madhya Pradesh state in India.
The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Bhopal, the capital of the state. It is housed in the Vidhan Bhavan, an imposing building located at the center of the Capital Complex in the Arera Hill locality of Bhopal city. The term of the Legislative Assembly is five years unless dissolved earlier. Presently, it comprises 230 members who are directly elected from single-seat constituencies. 35 constituencies are reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes and 47 are reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled tribes.
Office bearers +TitlePortraitNameSinceGovernorMangubhai C. Patel6 July 2021SpeakerNarendra Singh Tomar20 December 2023Deputy SpeakervacantLeader of the House (Chief Minister)Mohan Yadav13 December 2023Deputy Chief MinistersRajendra Shukla Jagdish DevdaOfficial Leader of the OppositionUmang Singhar16 December 2023
Members of Legislative Assembly
List of assemblies +AssemblyYearSpeakerChief MinsiterTerm LengthSeats1952-Ravishankar ShuklaStates Reorganisation Act, 1956The first Legislative Assembly elected in 1952 did not correspond to the present-day boundaries of Madhya Pradesh. Following the States Reorganisation Act 1956, the state was reorganised, and the first Legislative Assembly of the reorganised state was constituted after the 1957 elections.Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, and Bhopal state were merged into Madhya Pradesh and the Marathi-speaking districts of Nagpur Division were transferred to Bombay State.:(Merger of Madhya Bharat,Vindhya Pradesh,Bhopal State and Sironj Subdivision into Madhya Pradesh)1956Kunji Lal DubeyRavishankar Shukla---1st1957Kailash Nath Katju5 year, 2 days(1,824 days)2nd1962Bhagwantrao Mandloi (1962-1963)
Dwarka Prasad Mishra(1963-1967)5 year,4 days(1,822 days)3rd1967Kashi Prasad PandeyDwarka Prasad Mishra(1967) Govind Narayan Singh(1967-1969)
Nareshchandra Singh(1969)
Shyama Charan Shukla(1969-1972)
Prakash Chandra Sethi(1972)5 year,14 days (1,841 days)4th1972Tejlal Tambhare Harishchandra(1972) Gulsher Ahmad(1972-77)Prakash Chandra Sethi(1972-1975) Shyama Charan Shukla(1972-1977)5 year, 1 month, 27 days (1,885 days)President's Rule5th1977Mukund Sakharam Newalkar(J.P)Kailash Chandra Joshi(1977-1978) Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha(1978-1980)
Sunder Lal Patwa(1980)2 year, 7 months 25 days (968 days)President's Rule6th1980Yagya Datt Sharma (1980-1983) Ram Kishore Shukla(1983-1985)Arjun Singh 4 years, 9 months, 1 day (1,735 days)7th1985Rajendra Prasad ShuklaArjun Singh(1985) Motilal Vora(1985-1988)
Arjun Singh (1988-1989)
Motilal Vora(1989)
Shyama Charan Shukla(1989-90) 4 year,11 months, 22 days (1,820 days)8th1990Brij Mohan MishraSunder Lal Patwa2 year, 9 months, 10 days (1,016 days)President's Rule9th1993Sriniwas TiwariDigvijaya Singh4 year, 11 months , 24 days(1,820 days)10th1998Digvijaya Singh5 year ,7 days (1,833 days)11th2003Ishwardas RohaniUma Bharti(2003-2004) Babulal Gaur(2004-2005)
Shivraj Singh Chouhan(2005-2008)5 year, 4 days (1,831 days)12th2008Shivraj Singh Chouhan5 year, 1 day (1,827 days)13th2013Sitasharan SharmaShivraj Singh Chouhan5 year, 3 days (1,829 days)14th2018N. P. Prajapati (2019-2020)
Girish Gautam (2021-2023)Kamal Nath(2018-2020)
Shivraj Singh Chouhan(2020-2023)5 year, 6 days ( 1,832 days)15th2023Narendra Singh TomarMohan Yadav
Government formations in Madhya Pradesh INC9
BJP5
JP1 (See year-wise formations below) Year-wise formations INC: 1957, 1962, 1967,1972, 1980, 1985, 1993, 1998, 2018 BJP: 1990, 2003, 2008, 2013, 2023 JP: 1977
History The history of the Madhya Pradesh legislature can be traced back to 1913, as the Central Provinces Legislative Council was formed on 8 November of this year. Later, the Government of India Act 1935 provided for the elected Central Provinces Legislative assembly. The first elections to the Central Provinces Legislative Assembly were held in 1937.
After Indian independence in 1947, the erstwhile province of Central Provinces and Berar, along with a number of princely states merged with the Indian Union, became a new state, Madhya Pradesh. The strength of the legislative assembly of this state was 184.
The present-day Madhya Pradesh state came into existence on 1 November 1956 following the reorganization of states. It was created by merging the erstwhile Madhya Pradesh (without the Marathi speaking areas, which were merged with Bombay state), Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal states. The strengths of the legislative assemblies of Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, and Bhopal were 79, 48, and 23, respectively. On 1 November 1956, the legislative assemblies of all four erstwhile states were also merged to form the reorganized Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. The tenure of this first Vidhan Sabha was very short, and it was dissolved on 5 March 1957.
The first elections to the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha were held in 1957, and the second Vidhan Sabha was constituted on 1 April 1957. Initially, the strength of the Vidhan Sabha was 288, which was later enhanced to 321, including one nominated member. On 1 November 2000, a new state, Chhattisgarh, was carved out of Madhya Pradesh state. As a result, the strength of the Vidhan Sabha was reduced to 231, including a nominated member.
The present building was designed by Charles Correa in 1967, and it was the recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1998.
On 4 December 2017, Madhya Pradesh Assembly unanimously passed a Bill awarding death to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 and below.
See also Elections in Madhya Pradesh List of constituencies of Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha
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