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A Member
of Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral dirict
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Legislature
of a State in the Indian syem of government. Each ate has between seven to nine MLA
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for every Member of Parliament (MP) that it has in the Lok Sabha. There are also Members in two
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legislatures in Union Territories : the Delhi Legislative Assembly and Puducherry Legislative
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1 State legislature
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2 Qualication
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3 Permanent
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4 Powers
5 Wikidata
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MLA party memberships in 2015
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6 Cite
Presiding
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7 See also
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In ates where there are two houses there is a Legislative Assembly. In such a case, the Legislative Council
is the Upper House, while Legislative Assembly is the Lower House of the State Legislature. The Governor
shall not be a member of the Legislature or Parliament; shall not hold any oce of prot, shall be entitled to
emoluments and allowances. (Article 158 of Indian conitution).
The Legislative
consis of not more than 500 members and not less than 60. The bigge ate like
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Uttar Pradesh has 403 members in its Assembly. States which have small population and are small in size
have a provision for having even lesser number of members in the Legislative Assembly. Puducherry has 30
members. Mizoram, Goa have only 40 members each. Sikkim has 32 members. All members of the
Legislative Assembly are elected on the basis of adult franchise, and one member is elected from one
conituency. Ju as the President has the power to nominate 2 Anglo Indians to the Lok Sabha, similarly,
the Governor also has the power to nominate 1 member[1] from Anglo Indian's community as he/she deems
t, if he/she is of the opinion that they are not adequately represented in the Assembly.

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Qualication

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The qualications to member of the ate Legislature are largely similar to the qualications to be the
members of Parliament. A person should be i) a citizen of India ii) not less than 25 years of age [2] to be
member of the Legislative Assembly and not less than 30 years as per Article 173 of Indian Conitution to
be a member of the Legislative Council.
No person can become a member of the Legislative Assembly or the Legislative Council of any ate, unless
he himself is a voter from any conituency of the ate. Those who cannot become members of Parliament
can also not become members of ate Legislature. He is elected by the people of that particular
conituency and represents those people in the legislative assembly and debates on issues related to his or
her conituency.His position is like an MP only but the dierence is only that MLA is in the ate level and
the MP is in the national level.

Term

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The term of the Legislative Assembly is ve years. But it may be dissolved even earlier than ve years by the
Governor on the reque of Chief Minier. The term of the Legislative Assembly may be extended during an
Emergency, but not more than six months at a time.In the State of Jammu and Kashmir the tenure of the
Legislative Assembly is 6 years.
The Legislative Council is the Upper House in the State. Ju like the Rajya Sabha it is a permanent House
and cannot be dissolved. The term of each member is 6 years and 1/3 members of the House retire after
every two years..I.e.,it mean

Powers

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The mo important function of the Legislature is law making. The State Legislature has the power to make
laws on all items on which Parliament cannot legislate. Some of these items are police, prisons, irrigation,
agriculture, local governments, public health, pilgrimages, burial grounds etc. Some items on which both
Parliament and ates can make laws are education, marriage and divorce, fores, protection of wild animals
and birds etc.
As regards Money Bill, the position is the same. Bills can originate only in the Legislative Assembly. The
Legislative Council can either pass the bill within 14 days from the date of the receipt of the Bill or sugge
changes in it within 14 days. But these changes may or may not be accepted by the Assembly.
The State Legislature besides making laws also has one electoral power in electing the President of India.
Elected members of the Legislative Assembly along with the elected members of Parliament are involved in
this process.
Some parts of the Conitution can be amended by Parliament with the approval of half of State Legislatures.
Thus the State legislatures take part in the process of amendment of the Conitution.

Current MLA party memberships in 2015

State
Name

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Sociali

Right
Wing

--

--

TDP
102

YSRCP 67

11

--

--

--

05

--

--

BPF 12

PPA 05
AIUDF 18, AGP
10, AITC 1

Total

INC

BJP

Andhra
Pradesh

175

--

04

Arunachal

60

42

Assam

126

78

Leftis

RJD 80,
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Others

LJP 02, RLSP 02,

IND

02
02

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Bihar

243

27

53

CPI-ML 03

Chhattisgarh 90
Goa
40
Gujarat
182

39
09
58

49
21
121

Haryana

90

15

Himachal
Pradesh

68

Jammu and
Kashmir

--

----

-MGP 03
--

47

--

INLD 19

SAD 01

36

26

--

--

--

--

06

87

12

25

CPM 01

PDP 28

NC 15, PDF 01

04

Jharkhand

81

06

43

CPI-ML 01,
MCC 01

JVM-P
08

Karnataka

224

122

40

AJSU 05, BSP 01,

JP 01, NSM 01
BSRC 04, KMP
09
01, SKP 01

Kerala

140

38

Madhya
Pradesh

230

58

KJP 06

CPI 13, CPM

45, LDF 02,
RSP 02, RSP-B
01

JDS 04,
SJD 02

IUML
20,

KCJ 01, KCB 01,

KCM 09, NCP 02

165

--

--

--

BSP 04

PWPI 03, CPM

01

Maharashtra 288

42

122

Manipur

42

--

60

JMM 19,
JBSP 01
JDS 40, SP
01

HAM 01
BSP 01
GVP 02
GPP 02, NCP 02
HJS-BL 02, BSP
01

01

JDU 71
--JDU 01

Meghalaya

60

29

--

Mizoram
Nagaland

40
60

34
08

-01

--

Odisha

147

16

10

CPM 01

Punjab

117

46

12

Rajahan

200

21

163

Sikkim

32

SP 01

-JDU 01
BJD 116,
SKD 01

SS 63,
NCP 41, BVA 03,
AIMIM
02, MNS BBM 01, RSP 01
01
AITC 07, MSCP
NPF 04 05, NCP 02, LJP
01

-NPF 37

UDP-M 08,
HSPDP 02, NCP
02, NPP 02, GNC
02, NESDP 01
MNF 05, MPC 01
NCP 04

SDF 22

SKM 10

CPM 10, CPI

09, AIFB 01

MNMK
02,

AIADMK 150,
DMDK 29, DMK
23, PMK 03, PT
02

TDP 15, TRS 63, YSRCP

AIMIM
03
07

05

Telangana

119

21

05

CPM 01, CPI

01

Tripura

60

10

--

CPM 49, CPI

--

03
07

13

08

05
BSP 03, NPP 04,
NUZP 02

234

05

02
SAD 54

Tamil Nadu

01
05
01

--

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01
Uttar
Pradesh

403

Uttarakhand 70

28

47

32

31

We Bengal 294

42

--

Delhi

--

03

70

--

CPM 40, RSP

07, AIFB 11,
CPI 02, SCUI
01
--

SP 224,
RLD 09

BSP 80, PPI 04,

NCP 01

14

BSP 03, UKD-P

01

03

AITC 184, GJM

03

02

--

AAP 67

--

SP 01,
DSP-PC 01
--

Puducherry

30

07

--

--

--

--

AINRC 15,
AIADMK 05, DMK 01
02

Total

4046

904

978

207

585

387

908

Presiding ocers

101

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Similar to the Presiding ocers of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, the Legislative Assembly and the
Legislative Council also have Presiding Ocers. The Legislative Assembly has a Speaker and a Deputy
Speaker and the Legislative Council has a Chairman and a Deputy Chairman. They are elected from among
the members of the House.

See also

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Election Commission of India

References

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1. ^ http://www.kkhsou.in/main/polscience/government_ate.html
2. ^ [1]

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