6th Delhi Assembly

The Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi was constituted on 14th Feb 2015 after the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections were concluded earlier that month.[1] Second Kejriwal ministry was the cabinet during the term of 6th Delhi Assembly.

Legislative Assembly of Delhi
(Vidhan Sabha of Delhi)
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Term limits
5 year
History
FoundedFeb 2015
DisbandedJan 2020
Preceded by5th Delhi Assembly
Succeeded by7th Delhi Assembly
Leadership
Speaker of the Assembly
Dy. Speaker
Chief Minister
Leader of the House
Leader of the Opposition
Secretary
P. N. Mishra
Structure
Seats70
Political groups
between 2015-2017
  AAP: 67 seats
  BJP: 3 seats
Political groups
Since Aug 2017
  AAP: 66 seats
  BJP: 4 seats
Length of term
5 years
Elections
First-past-the-post
Last election
7 February 2015
Meeting place
Old Secretariat , Delhi, India
Website
www.delhiassembly.nic.in

History

Elections for 70 assembly seats in Delhi were concluded on 07th Feb 2015 and results were announced on 10th Feb 2015. The Aam Aadmi Party got a sweeping majority by winning 67 out of 70 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party managed only 3 seats and all other parties, including the Indian National Congress could not manage to win any seats. AAP got 54.3% (4,879,127), BJP got 32.2% (2,891,510) and INC got 9.7% (867,027) of total votes polled. A total of 6 national parties, 10 state parties, 55 registered (unrecognised) parties and 1 independent candidate contested for the 70 assembly seats.[2][1][3]

On 14th Feb 2015, Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as the eighth Chief Minister of Delhi. Along with Kejriwal, six ministers were also sworn in the Second Kejriwal ministry.[4][5][6]

In April, 2015, the speaker of the house recognized Vijender Gupta as the leader of opposition in the house.[7]

As on 28 August 2017, AAP had 66 MLA, 4 belongs to BJP.

Jarnail Singh from Aam Aadmi Party resigned on 6 January 2017 to contest against sitting Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal[8] Shiromani Akali Dal party member Manjinder Singh Sirsa contested on the BJP ticket and won the Rajouri Garden assembly constituency in Feb 2017 By Poll Election.[9]

AAP won the Bawana assembly constituency in Aug 2017 By Poll Election.

Office holders
#FromToPositionNameParty
012015IncumbentChief MinisterArvind KejriwalAAP
022015IncumbentSpeakerRam Niwas GoelAAP
032015IncumbentDeputy SpeakerRakhi BirlaAAP
042015IncumbentLeader of the HouseArvind KejriwalAAP
052015IncumbentLeader of the OppositionVijender GuptaBJP

Committees

Chairman, (2015-2020) The Estimates Committee: Dinesh Mohaniya.

List of members
No. Constituency Name of elected MLA Party affiliation Notes
01Adarsh NagarPawan Kumar Sharma AAP
02Ambedkar NagarAjay Dutt AAP
03BabarpurGopal Rai AAP
04BadarpurNarayan Dutt Sharma AAP
05BadliAjesh Yadav AAP
06BallimaranImran Hussain AAP
07BawanaRam Chander AAP
08BijwasanDevinder Sehrawat AAP
09BurariSanjeev Jha AAP
10Chandni ChowkAlka Lamba AAP
11ChhatarpurKartar Singh Tanwar AAP
12Delhi CanttSurinder Singh AAP
13DeoliPrakash Jarwal AAP
14DwarkaAdarsh Shastri AAP
15Gandhi NagarAnil Kumar Bajpai AAP
16GhondaShri Dutt Sharma AAP
17GokalpurFateh Singh AAP
18Greater KailashSaurabh Bharadwaj AAP
19Hari NagarJagdeep Singh AAP
20JanakpuriRajesh Rishi AAP
21JangpuraPraveen Kumar AAP
22KalkajiAvtar Singh AAP
23Karawal NagarKapil Mishra AAP
24Karol BaghVishesh Ravi AAP
25Kasturba NagarMadan Lal AAP
26KirariRituraj Govind AAP
27KondliManoj Kumar AAP
28Krishna NagarS.K. Bagga AAP
29Laxmi NagarNitin Tyagi AAP
30MadipurGirish Soni AAP
31Malviya NagarSomnath Bharti AAP
32Mangol PuriRakhi Birla AAP
33Matia MahalAsim Ahmed Khan AAP
34MatialaGulab Singh AAP
35MehrauliNaresh Yadav AAP
36Model TownAkhilesh Pati Tripathi AAP
37Moti NagarShiv Charan Goel AAP
38MundkaSukhvir Singh AAP
39MustafabadJagdish BJP
40NajafgarhKailash Gahlot AAP
41Nangloi JatRaghuvinder Shokeen AAP
42NerelaSharad Kumar AAP
43New DelhiArvind Kejriwal AAP
44OkhlaAmanatullah Khan AAP
45PalamBhavna Gaur AAP
46Patel NagarHazari Lal Chauhan AAP
47PatparganjManish Sisodia AAP
48R.K. PuramParmila Tokas AAP
49Rajinder NagarVijender Garg Vijay AAP
50 Rajouri Garden Jarnail Singh AAPresigned on 6 January 2017 to contest against sitting CM Parkash Singh Badal[8]
Manjinder Singh Sirsa BJPwon by-election
51RithalaMohinder Goyal AAP
52RohiniVijender Gupta BJP
53Rohtas NagarSarita Singh AAP
54Sadar BazarSom Dutt AAP
55Sangam ViharDinesh Mohaniya AAP
56SeelampurMohammad Ishraque AAP
57SeemapuriRajendra Pal Gautam AAP
58ShahdaraRam Niwas Goel AAP
59Shakur BastiSatyendra Kumar Jain AAP
60Shalimar BaghBandana Kumari AAP
61Sultan Pur MajraSandeep Kumar AAP
62Tilak NagarJarnail Singh AAP
63TimarpurPankaj Pushkar AAP
64Tri NagarJitender Singh Tomar AAP
65TrilokpuriRaju Dhingan AAP
66TughlakabadSahi Ram AAP
67Uttam NagarNaresh Balyan AAP
68VikaspuriMahinder Yadav AAP
69Vishwas NagarOm Prakash Sharma BJP
70WazirpurRajesh Gupta AAP

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See also

References
  1. "Election Results". Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  2. "Statistical Reports" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  3. "Comprehensive Election results". Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  4. "Arvind Kejriwal takes oath". The Economic Times. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  5. "Six Ministers sworn in". The Hindu. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  6. "Arvind Kejriwal's cabinet". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  7. "BJP's Vijendra Gupta Named Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly". NDTV. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  8. "Assembly election: AAP's Delhi MLA Jarnail Singh quits to take on Punjab CM".
  9. "Delhi's Rajouri Garden bypoll: BJP wins by a margin of 14,652 votes, AAP concedes third defeat". The Indian Express. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  10. "Election result". Election commission of India website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
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