झारखण्ड सरकार • Government of Jharkhand
4th Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand
Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
House Type Unicameral
Term Length 5 years
Term Limits 2014–2019
Total Members: 82 (81 directly elected, 1 nominated)
🎨 Seating Diagram Key (June 2019 Snapshot): BJP (44) · JMM (16) · INC (6) · AJSU (3) · JVM(P) (2) · CPI(ML)L (1) · BSP (1) · MCC (1) · Vacant (2)
Party Composition (Session End)
Government (47)
BJP 44
AJSU 3
Opposition (22)
JMM 16
INC 6
Others (5)
JVM(P) 2
CPI(ML)L 1
BSP 1
MCC 1
Vacant (Session End) 7
Leadership & Governance
Governors of Jharkhand
Syed Ahmed Droupadi Murmu
Chief Minister
Raghubar Das BJP
Speaker of the Assembly
Dinesh Oraon BJP
Leader of the Opposition
Hemant Soren JMM
Assembly History & Venue
Foundation December 2014
Meeting Place Vidhan Bhawan, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Preceded by 3rd Jharkhand Assembly
Succeeded by 5th Jharkhand Assembly
Last Election 2014
Next Election 2019
Website Official website
The 4th Jharkhand Assembly was constituted after the 2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election
The unicameral state legislature of Jharkhand state in India. The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Ranchi, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 81 Members of Legislative Assembly, directly elected from single-seat constituencies.
Major laws passed
Pathalgadi movement against tribal land law amendments
In 2016–2017, the Raghubar Das government was seeking amendments to the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908, and the Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act, 1949. These two original laws had safeguarded the rights of the tribal communities on their land. According to the existing laws the land transactions could only be done between the tribals. The new amendments gave the tribals the right to allow the government to make commercial use of the tribal land and to take the tribal land on lease. The proposed bill amending the existing law had been approved by the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. The bills were sent to Murmu for approval in November 2016.
The tribal people had strongly objected to the proposed law. During the Pathalgardi rebellion, protests were held against the proposed amendments to the tenancy acts. In one incident the protests turned violent and the tribals abducted the security detail of the BJP MP Karia Munda. Police responded with a violent crackdown on the tribals that caused the death of a tribal man. Criminal cases were filed against more than 200 people including the tribal rights activist Father Stan Swamy. Governor Droupadi Murmu, was criticized for her soft stand on police aggression against tribals during the movement. According to woman tribal rights activist Aloka Kujur she was expected to speak up to the government in support of the tribals but it did not happen, and instead she appealed to the Pathalgarhi agitation leaders to repose faith in the constitution.
Murmu had received total of 192 memorandums against the amendments in the bill. Then opposition leader Hemant Soren had said that the BJP government wanted to acquire tribal land through the two amendment Bills for the benefit of corporates. Opposition parties Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, the Congress, the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha and others had put intense pressure against the bill. On 24 May 2017, Murmu relented and refused to give assent to the bills and returned the bill to the state government along with the memorandums she had received. The bill was later withdrawn in August 2017.
Religion and land bill In 2017, the ministry approved the Freedom of Religion Bill, 2017, and the bill to amend the Land Acquisition 2013 Act passed by the Jharkhand Assembly.
The new religion bill makes it an offence subject to a penalty of three years in prison, to coerce or lure a person to convert their religion. If the person coerced is a member of a Scheduled Caste or tribe, a minor, or female, the prison term increases to four years. Fines can be levied in any case. The bill also made it mandatory for voluntary converts, to inform the Deputy Commissioner about their conversion, and to give full details about the circumstances.
The amendments in the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, involved changes in the compensation duration and requirements for social impacts assessment. According to the passed law, monetary compensation for government acquisition of tribal land must be paid within six months of acquisition. The requirement for social impact assessments was dropped for some types of infrastructure projects.
Composition After the 2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election. Parties and CoalitionsSeats WonBharatiya Janata Party37Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 19Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)8Indian National Congress6All Jharkhand Students Union5Bahujan Samaj Party1Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation1Jharkhand Party1Marxist Co-ordination Committee1Jai Bharat Samanta Party1Nav Jawan Sangharsh Morcha1
Composition at the end of the Assembly session
Party Seats Bharatiya Janata Party 44 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 16 Indian National Congress 6 All Jharkhand Students Union 3 Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) 2 Communist Party of India (ML) 1 Bahujan Samaj Party 1 Marxist Co-ordination Committee 1 Vacant 7+ Source:
Member of Legislative Assembly + Member of Legislative Assembly (Jharkhand)Assembly ConstituencyMember#NameMLA NameParty1 RajmahalAnant Kumar OjhaBharatiya Janata Party 2 BorioTala MarandiBharatiya Janata Party 3 BarhaitHemant SorenJharkhand Mukti Morcha 4 LitiparaAnil MurmuJharkhand Mukti Morcha 5 PakaurAlamgir AlamIndian National Congress 6 MaheshpurStephen MarandiJharkhand Mukti Morcha 7 ShikariparaNalin SorenJharkhand Mukti Morcha 8 NalaRabindra Nath MahatoJharkhand Mukti Morcha 9 JamtaraIrfan AnsariIndian National Congress 10 DumkaLouis MarandiBharatiya Janata Party 11 JamaSita SorenJharkhand Mukti Morcha 12 JarmundiBadal PatralekhIndian National Congress 13 MadhupurRaj PaliwarBharatiya Janata Party 14 SarathRandhir Kumar SinghJharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) 15 DeogharNarayan DasBharatiya Janata Party 16 PoreyahatPradeep YadavJharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) 17 GoddaRaghu Nandan MandalBharatiya Janata Party 18 MahagamaAshok KumarBharatiya Janata Party 19 KodarmaNeera YadavBharatiya Janata Party 20 BarkathaJanki Prasad YadavJharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) 21 Barhi Manoj Kumar YadavIndian National Congress 22 BarkagaonNirmala DeviIndian National Congress 23 RamgarhChandra Prakash ChoudharyAll Jharkhand Students Union 24 ManduJai Prakash Bhai PatelJharkhand Mukti Morcha 25 HazaribaghManish JaiswalBharatiya Janata Party 26 SimariaGanesh GanjhuJharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) 27 ChatraJay Prakash Singh BhogtaBharatiya Janata Party 28 DhanwarRaj Kumar YadavCommunist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation 29 BagodarNagendra MahtoBharatiya Janata Party 30 JamuaKedar HazraBharatiya Janata Party 31 GandeyJai Prakash VermaBharatiya Janata Party 32 GiridihNirbhay Kumar ShahabadiBharatiya Janata Party 33 DumriJagarnath MahtoJharkhand Mukti Morcha 34 GomiaYogendra PrasadJharkhand Mukti Morcha 35 BermoYogeshwar MahtoBharatiya Janata Party 36 BokaroBiranchi NarayanBharatiya Janata Party 37 ChandankiyariAmar Kumar BauriJharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) 38 SindriFulchand MandalBharatiya Janata Party 39 NirsaArup ChatterjeeMarxist Co-ordination Committee 40DhanbadRaj SinhaBharatiya Janata Party 41JhariaSanjeev SinghBharatiya Janata Party 42TundiRaj Kishore MahatoAll Jharkhand Students Union 43BaghmaraDulu MahatoBharatiya Janata Party 44BaharagoraKunal SarangiJharkhand Mukti Morcha 45GhatsilaLaxman TuduBharatiya Janata Party 46PotkaManeka SardarBharatiya Janata Party 47JugsalaiRam Chandra SahisAll Jharkhand Students Union 48Jamshedpur EastRaghubar DasBharatiya Janata Party 49Jamshedpur WestSaryu RoyBharatiya Janata Party 50IchagharSadhu Charan MahatoBharatiya Janata Party 51SeraikellaChampai SorenJharkhand Mukti Morcha 52ChaibasaDeepak BiruaJharkhand Mukti Morcha 53MajhgaonNiral PurtyJharkhand Mukti Morcha 54JaganathpurGeeta KodaJai Bharat Samanta Party 55ManoharpurJoba MajhiJharkhand Mukti Morcha 56ChakradharpurShashibhushan SamadJharkhand Mukti Morcha 57KharsawanDashrath GagraiJharkhand Mukti Morcha 58TamarVikash Kumar MundaAll Jharkhand Students Union 59TorpaPaulus SurinJharkhand Mukti Morcha 60KhuntiNilkanth Singh MundaBharatiya Janata Party 61SilliAmit KumarJharkhand Mukti Morcha 62KhijriRam Kumar PahanBharatiya Janata Party 63RanchiC.P.SinghBharatiya Janata Party 64HatiaNavin JaiswalJharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) 65KankeJitu Charan RamBharatiya Janata Party 66MandarGangotri KujurBharatiya Janata Party 67SisaiDinesh OraonBharatiya Janata Party 68GumlaShivshankar OraonBharatiya Janata Party 69BishunpurChamra LindaJharkhand Mukti Morcha 70SimdegaVimla PradhanBharatiya Janata Party 71KolebiraAnosh EkkaJharkhand Party 72LohardagaKamal Kishore BhagatAll Jharkhand Students Union 73ManikaHarikrishna SinghBharatiya Janata Party 74LateharPrakash RamJharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) 75PankiBidesh SinghIndian National Congress 76DaltonganjAlok Kumar ChaurasiyaJharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) 77BishrampurRamchandra ChandravanshiBharatiya Janata Party 78ChhatarpurRadha Krishna KishoreBharatiya Janata Party 79HussainabadKushwaha Shivpujan MehtaBahujan Samaj Party 80GarhwaSatyendra Nath TiwariBharatiya Janata Party 81BhawanathpurBhanu Pratap SahiNav Jawan Sangharsh Morcha
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