# Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council

The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council also known as Vidhan Parishad is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh, a state in India. Uttar Pradesh is one of the six states in India, where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses: the Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) and the Vidhan Parishad (Legislative Council). The Legislative Council is a permanent house, consisting of 100 members.

## History

The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly came into existence by the Government of India Act of 1935. The Legislative Council consisted of 60 members. The term of a member of the Council was six years with one-third of its members retiring after every two years. The Houses enjoyed the right of electing their Presiding Officers known as the President. The first meeting of the Legislative Council was held on 29 July 1937. Sir Sitaram and Begum Aijaz Rasul were elected the President and the Vice-President of the Legislative Council respectively. Sir Sitaram was in office until 9 March 1949. Chandra Bhal became the next Chairman on 10 March 1949.
After the independence and adoption of the constitution on 26 January 1950 Chandra Bhal was re-elected the Chairman of the Legislative Council and served until 5 May 1958. Sri Nizamuddin was elected the Deputy Chairman of the Council on 27 May 1952. He served until 1964.

## Nominations and election

When, under the provisions of the Government of India Act 1935, the Legislative Council came into existence in the United Provinces, it comprised 60 members. On 26 January 1950, the total membership of the Vidhan Parishad (legislative council) of Uttar Pradesh state was increased from 60 to 72. With the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act 1956, the strength of the Council was enhanced to 108. After the reorganization of Uttar Pradesh state in November 2000 and the creation of Uttarakhand state, this strength has now reduced to 100.

### Composition of Legislative Council

The present composition of the Vidhan Parishad is as follows: Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad (Legislative Council) has 100 members (MLC).
* 38 members are elected by the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly members (MLA).
* 36 members are elected by local authorities.
* 8 members are elected by graduates.
* 8 members are elected by teachers.
* 10 members are nominated by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.

### Party composition

| Alliance | Alliance | Party | Party | No. of MLCs | Leader of the party in Council |
| | N.D.A Seats: 83 | | BJP | 79 | Keshav Prasad Maurya |
| | N.D.A Seats: 83 | | AD(S) | 1 | Ashish Singh Patel |
| | N.D.A Seats: 83 | | NISHAD | 1 | Sanjay Nishad |
| | N.D.A Seats: 83 | | RLD | 1 | Yogesh Choudhary |
| | N.D.A Seats: 83 | | SBSP | 1 | Vichhelal Rajbhar |
| | I.N.D.I.A Seats: 10 | | SP | 10 | Lal Bihari Yadav |
| | Others Seats: 6 | | JSD(L) | 1 | Akshay Pratap Singh |
| | Others Seats: 6 | | IND | 5 | — |
| Vacant | Vacant | Vacant | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Total number of MLCs | Total number of MLCs | Total number of MLCs | Total number of MLCs | 100 | 100 |

## Term

Members are now elected or nominated for six years and one-third of them retire on the expiration of every second year, so a member continues as such for six years. The vacant seats are filled up by fresh elections and nominations (by Governor) at the beginning of every third year. The retiring members are also eligible for re-election and re-nomination any number of times. The Presiding Officers of Vidhan Parishad are Chairman and Deputy Chairman. Kunwar Manvendra Singh is the current Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.

## Constituencies and members (100)

See List of members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
The following are the constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad:

### Elected by Legislative Assembly (38)

Keys:  BJP (28)  SP (7)  AD(S) (1)  RLD (1)  SBSP (1)
| # | Member | Party | Term start | Term end |
| 1 | Vijay Bahadur Pathak | BJP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 2 | Mahendra Kumar Singh | BJP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 3 | Ashok Katariya | BJP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 4 | Santosh Singh | BJP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 5 | Dharmendra Singh | BJP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 6 | Ram Tirath Singhal | BJP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 7 | Mohit Beniwal | BJP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 8 | Keshav Prasad Maurya | BJP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 9 | Bhupendra Chaudhary | BJP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 10 | Daya Shankar Mishra | BJP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 11 | Jayendra Pratap Singh Rathore | BJP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 12 | Jaswant Singh Saini | BJP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 13 | Danish Azad Ansari | BJP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 14 | Narendra Kashyap | BJP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 15 | Manvendra Singh Chauhan | BJP | 29-May-2023 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 16 | Mukesh Sharma | BJP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 17 | Bahoran Lal Maurya | BJP | 06-Jul-2024 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 18 | Swatantra Dev Singh | BJP | 31-Jan-2021 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 19 | A. K. Sharma | BJP | 31-Jan-2021 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 20 | Kunwar Manvendra Singh | BJP | 31-Jan-2021 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 21 | Govind Narayan Shukla | BJP | 31-Jan-2021 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 22 | Salil Vishnoi | BJP | 31-Jan-2021 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 23 | Ashwani Tyagi | BJP | 31-Jan-2021 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 24 | Dharmveer Prajapati | BJP | 31-Jan-2021 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 25 | Surendra Choudhary | BJP | 31-Jan-2021 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 26 | Dharmendra Senthwar | BJP | 11-Aug-2022 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 27 | Padmasen Chaudhary | BJP | 29-May-2023 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 28 | Dara Singh Chauhan | BJP | 23-Jan-2024 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 29 | Balram Yadav | SP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 30 | Shah Alam | SP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 31 | Kiranpal Kashyap | SP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 32 | Mukul Yadav | SP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 33 | Mohammad Jasmir Ansari | SP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 34 | Shahnawaz Khan | SP | 06-Jul-2022 | 05-Jul-2028 |
| 35 | Rajendra Chaudhary | SP | 31-Jan-2021 | 30-Jan-2027 |
| 36 | Ashish Patel | ADS | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 37 | Yogesh Choudhary | RLD | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |
| 38 | Vichhelal Rajbhar | SBSP | 06-May-2024 | 05-May-2030 |

### Elected by local authority constituencies (36)

Keys:  BJP (33)  Independent (2)  JSD(L) (1)
| # | Constituency | Member | Party | Term start | Term end |
| 1 | Raebareli | Dinesh Pratap Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 2 | Jaunpur | Brijesh Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 3 | Muzaffarnagar- Saharanpur | Vandana Verma | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 4 | Moradabad–Bijnor | Satyapal Saini | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 5 | Rampur–Bareilly | Kunwar Maharaj Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 6 | Pilibhit–Shahjahanpur | Sudhir Gupta | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 7 | Hardoi | Ashok Agrawal | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 8 | Lakhimpur–Kheri | Anoop Kumar Gupta | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 9 | Sitapur | Pawan Singh Chauhan | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 10 | Lucknow–Unnao | Ram Chandra Pradhan | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 11 | Pratapgarh | Akshay Pratap Singh | JSD(L) | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 12 | Sultanpur | Shailendra Pratap Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 13 | Barabanki | Angad Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 14 | Bahraich | Pragya Tripathi | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 15 | Gonda | Awadhesh Kumar Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 16 | Faizabad | Hariom Pandey | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 17 | Basti–Siddharth Nagar | Subhash Yaduvansh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 18 | Gorakhpur–Maharajganj | C. P. Chand | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 19 | Deoria | Ratanpal Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 20 | Azamgarh–Mau | Vikrant Singh "Rishu" | IND | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 21 | Ballia | Ravishanker Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 22 | Mirzapur–Sonbhadra | Shyam Narayan Singh Alias Vineet Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 23 | Allahabad | K. P. Srivastav | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 24 | Banda–Hamirpur | Jitendra Singh Sengar | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 25 | Jhansi–Jalaun–Lalitpur | Rama Niranjan | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 26 | Kanpur–Fatehpur | Avinash Singh Chauhan | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 27 | Etawah–Farrukhabad | Pranshu Dutt Dwivedi | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 28 | Agra–Firozabad | Vijay Shivhare | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 29 | Mathura–Etah–Mainpuri | Ashish Kumar Yadav | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 30 | Mathura–Etah–Mainpuri | Om Prakash Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 31 | Aligarh-Hathras | Chaudhary Rishipal Singh | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 32 | Bulandshahar-Noida | Narendra Bhati | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 33 | Meerut–Ghaziabad | Dharmendra Bhardwaj | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 34 | Ghazipur | Vishal Singh Chanchal | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 35 | Varanasi | Annapurna Singh | IND | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |
| 36 | Badaun | Vagish Pathak | BJP | 12-Apr-2022 | 11-Apr-2028 |

### Elected from Graduate Constituencies (8)

Keys:  BJP (6)  SP (2)
| # | Constituency | Member | Party | Term start | Term end |
| 1 | Bareilly–Moradabad | Jai Pal Singh | BJP | 13-Feb-2023 | 12-Feb-2029 |
| 2 | Gorakhpur–Faizabad | Devendra Pratap Singh | BJP | 13-Feb-2023 | 12-Feb-2029 |
| 3 | Kanpur | Arun Pathak | BJP | 13-Feb-2023 | 12-Feb-2029 |
| 4 | Agra | Manvendra Pratap Singh | BJP | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |
| 5 | Meerut | Dinesh Kumar Goel | BJP | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |
| 6 | Lucknow | Awanish Kumar Singh | BJP | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |
| 7 | Varanasi | Ashutosh Sinha | SP | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |
| 8 | Allahabad–Jhansi | Man Singh Yadav | SP | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |

### Elected from Teacher Constituencies (8)

Keys:  BJP (4)  Independent (3)  SP (1)
| # | Constituency | Member | Party | Term start | Term end |
| 1 | Kanpur | Raj Bahadur Singh Chandel | IND | 13-Feb-2023 | 12-Feb-2029 |
| 2 | Allahabad–Jhansi | Babu Lal Tiwari | BJP | 13-Feb-2023 | 12-Feb-2029 |
| 3 | Bareilly–Moradabad | Hari Singh Dhillon | BJP | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |
| 4 | Lucknow | Umesh Dwivedi | BJP | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |
| 5 | Varanasi | Lal Bihari Yadav | SP | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |
| 6 | Meerut | Shri Chand Sharma | BJP | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |
| 7 | Agra | Akash Agarwal | IND | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |
| 8 | Gorakhpur–Faizabad | Dhruv Kumar Tripathi | IND | 01-Dec-2020 | 30-Nov-2026 |

### Nominated by Governor (10)

Keys:  BJP (8)  NP (1)  Vacant (1)
| # | Member | Party | Party | Term start | Term end |
| 1 | Rajnikant Maheshwari | | BJP | 03-Apr-2023 | 02-Apr-2029 |
| 2 | Saket Misra | | BJP | 03-Apr-2023 | 02-Apr-2029 |
| 3 | Ram Surat Rajbhar | | BJP | 03-Apr-2023 | 02-Apr-2029 |
| 4 | Hans Raj Vishwakarma | | BJP | 03-Apr-2023 | 02-Apr-2029 |
| 5 | Tariq Mansoor | | BJP | 03-Apr-2023 | 02-Apr-2029 |
| 6 | Lalaji Prasad Nirmal | | BJP | 03-Apr-2023 | 02-Apr-2029 |
| 7 | Gopal Anjan Bhurji | | BJP | 01-Oct 2021 | 30-Sep-2027 |
| 8 | Choudhary Virender Singh | | BJP | 01-Oct 2021 | 30-Sep-2027 |
| 9 | Sanjay Nishad | | NP | 01-Oct 2021 | 30-Sep-2027 |
| 10 | Vacant since 08-Jun-2024 | Vacant since 08-Jun-2024 | Vacant since 08-Jun-2024 | Vacant since 08-Jun-2024 | 30-Sep-2027 |