Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha
5th Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 years
History
Founded	14 February 2002
Preceded by	Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Leadership
Speaker	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan since 26 March 2022
Deputy Speaker	Vacant since 10 March 2022
Leader of the House (Chief Minister)	Pushkar Singh Dhami, BJP since 4 July 2021
Leader of the Opposition	Yashpal Arya, INC since 10 April 2022
Deputy Leader of the Opposition	Bhuwan Chandra Kapri, INC since 10 April 2022
Chief Secretary	Sukhbir Singh Sandhu IAS[1]
Structure
Seats	70
Political groups	Government (48)   BJP (46)   IND (2) Opposition (19)   INC (19) Others (2)   BSP (2) Vacant (1)   Vacant (1)
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	14 February 2022
Next election	2027
Redistricting	2012
Meeting place
Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Gairsain (summer) Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Dehradun (winter)
Website
Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Constitution
Constitution of India

The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, also known as the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha, is a unicameral governing and law making body of Uttarakhand, one of the 28 states of India. It is seated at Dehradun, the winter capital, and Gairsain, the summer capital of Uttarakhand. The total strength of the assembly is 70 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).

As of March 2022, Pushkar Singh Dhami is the current Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and Leader of the House in the 5th Vidhan Sabha.^[2] The Speaker of the Assembly is Ritu Khanduri Bhushan. Gurmit Singh is the current Governor of Uttarakhand.

Between 2002 and 2020, Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly had 71 seats, including one reserved seat for the member of Anglo-Indian community that was abolished on 25 January 2020 by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019, reducing the strength of Assembly from 71 to 70 seats.^[3]

Assembly election results

List of Assemblies

The following is the list of all the Uttarakhand Legislative Assemblies^[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

2016 Assembly suspension

In March 2016, capping a nine-day high-voltage political drama, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union Government brought Uttarakhand under President's rule citing a constitutional breakdown in the wake of a rebellion in then state-ruling Indian National Congress, which slammed the decision calling it a "murder of democracy" and a "black day".

President Pranab Mukherjee signed the proclamation under Article 356 of the Constitution of India dismissing the INC-ruled State Government, the Chief Minister Harish Rawat and placing the Assembly under suspended animation on the recommendation of the Union Cabinet.

The Union Government was of the view that continuance of the Rawat government was "immoral and unconstitutional" after 18 March 2016, when the Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker declared the appropriation bill "passed" in controversial circumstances without allowing a division pressed for by 35 MLAs, including 9 rebel Congress legislators.

The Union Cabinet had held an emergency meeting on Saturday night presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had cut short a visit to Assam to return to the New Delhi for the purpose.

The Cabinet considered several reports received from Governor Krishan Kant Paul, who had described the political situation as volatile and expressed apprehensions over possible pandemonium during the scheduled trial of strength in the Assembly on Monday.

The purported CD of the sting operation conducted against the Chief Minister that was in public domain on Saturday was understood to have been factored into the decision of the Cabinet which found it as a case of horse trading.

Additionally Two Uttarakhand MLAs, one each from Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party were on 9 June suspended for cross-voting during the floor test that was held on 10 May. Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal suspended BJP MLA Bhim Lal Arya and INC MLA Rekha Arya.^[6]