Haryana Legislative Assembly


The Haryana Legislative Assembly or the Haryana Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral state legislature of Haryana state in India.
The seat of the Vidhan Sabha at Chandigarh, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 90 Members of Legislative Assembly, directly elected from single-seat constituencies. The term of office is five years.

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 in 1977. Highest number of seats ever won was in 1977 when Janata Party won 75 out of 90 seats when in the aftermath of 1975-77 emergency by Indian National Congress's Indira Gandhi irate voters booted INC out which 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 dominiated by the nepotistic clans of 5 political dynasts, Lal trio as well as the Hooda clan and Rao Birender clan. 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.

Vidhan SabhaFromToFirst sitting
1st Vidhan Sabha1 November 196628 February 1967 6 December 1966
2nd Vidhan Sabha17 March 196721 November 1967 17 March 1967
3rd Vidhan Sabha15 July 196821 January 1972 15 July 1968
4th Vidhan Sabha3 April 197230 April 1977 3 April 1972
5th Vidhan Sabha4 July 197719 April 19824 July 1977
6th Vidhan Sabha24 June 198223 June 198724 June 1982
7th Vidhan Sabha9 July 19876 April 19919 July 1987
8th Vidhan Sabha9 July 199110 May 19969 July 1991
9th Vidhan Sabha22 May 199614 December 199922 May 1996
10th Vidhan Sabha9 March 20008 March 20059 March 2000
11th Vidhan Sabha21 March 200521 August 200921 March 2005
12th Vidhan Sabha28 October 200920 October 201428 October 2009
13th Vidhan Sabha20 October 201428 October 2019-
14th Vidhan Sabha28 October 2019Present4 November 2019

Political parties

Presiding Officers

Current Assembly