# Delhi Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the unicameral legislature of the union territory of Delhi in India. Delhi Legislative Assembly is the legislative arm of the Government of Delhi. At present, it consists of 70 members, directly elected from 70 constituencies. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years unless dissolved sooner.
The seat of assembly is the Old Secretariat building, which is also the seat of the Government of Delhi.

## History

The Delhi Legislative Assembly was first constituted on 7 March 1952 under the Government of Part C States Act, 1951; it was inaugurated by Home Minister K. N. Katju. The Assembly had 48 members, and a Council of Ministers in an advisory role to the Chief Commissioner of Delhi, though it also had powers to make laws. The first Council of Ministers was led by Brahm Prakash, who became the first Chief Minister of Delhi.
However, the States Reorganisation Commission, set up in 1953, led to the Constitutional amendment through States Reorganisation Act, 1956, which came into effect on 1 November 1956. This meant that Delhi was no longer a Part-C State and was made a Union Territory under the direct administration of the President of India. Also the Delhi Legislative Assembly and the Council of Ministers were abolished simultaneously. Subsequently, the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 was enacted which led to the formation the Municipal Corporation.
In September 1966, with "The Delhi Administration Act, 1966", the assembly was replaced by the Delhi Metropolitan Council with 56 elected and five nominated members with the Lt. Governor of Delhi as its head. The Council however had no legislative powers, only an advisory role in the governance of Delhi. This set up functioned until 1990.
This Council was finally replaced by the Delhi Legislative Assembly through the Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991, followed by the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act, 1991 the Sixty-ninth Amendment to the Constitution of India, which declared the Union Territory of Delhi to be formally known as National Capital Territory of Delhi and also supplements the constitutional provisions relating to the Legislative Assembly and the Council of Ministers and related matters. The Legislative Assembly is selected for period of five years, and presently it is the seventh assembly, which was selected through the 2020 Legislative Assembly election.

### Assembly building

The building was originally built in 1912, designed by E. Montague Thomas to hold the Imperial Legislative Council and subsequently the Central Legislative Assembly (after 1919), until the newly constructed Parliament House of India in New Delhi (Sansad Bhawan) was inaugurated on 18 January 1927.
The building also housed the Secretariat of the Government of India, and was built after the capital of India shifted to Delhi from Calcutta. The temporary secretariat building was constructed in a few months' time in 1912. It functioned as the Secretariat for another decade, before the offices shifted to the present Secretariat Building on Raisina Hill.

## List of assemblies

| Assembly | Election year | Speaker | Chief Minister | Party | Opposition Leader | Party | Party |
| Interim Assembly | 1952 | N/A | Brahm Prakash | Indian National Congress | N/A | | Bharatiya Jana Sangh |
| Interim Assembly | 1952 | N/A | Gurmukh Nihal Singh | Indian National Congress | N/A | | Bharatiya Jana Sangh |
| State Reorganization |||||||||
| 1st Assembly | 1993 | Charti Lal Goel | Madan Lal Khurana | Bharatiya Janata Party | Deep Chand Bandhu | | Indian National Congress |
| 1st Assembly | 1993 | Charti Lal Goel | Sahib Singh Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | Deep Chand Bandhu | | Indian National Congress |
| 1st Assembly | 1993 | Charti Lal Goel | Sushma Swaraj | Bharatiya Janata Party | Deep Chand Bandhu | | Indian National Congress |
| 2nd Assembly | 1998 | Chaudhary Prem Singh | Sheila Dikshit | Indian National Congress | Madan Lal Khurana | | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 3rd Assembly | 2003 | Ajay Maken | Sheila Dikshit | Indian National Congress | Vijay Kumar Malhotra | | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 3rd Assembly | 2003 | Chaudhary Prem Singh | Sheila Dikshit | Indian National Congress | Vijay Kumar Malhotra | | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 4th Assembly | 2008 | Yoganand Shastri | Sheila Dikshit | Indian National Congress | Vijay Kumar Malhotra | | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 5th Assembly | 2013 | Maninder Singh Dhir | Arvind Kejriwal | Aam Aadmi Party | Harsh Vardhan | | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 6th Assembly | 2015 | Ram Niwas Goel | Arvind Kejriwal | Aam Aadmi Party | Vacant (no opposition with at least 10% seats) | Vacant (no opposition with at least 10% seats) | Vacant (no opposition with at least 10% seats) |
| 7th Assembly | 2020 | Ram Niwas Goel | Arvind Kejriwal | Aam Aadmi Party | Ramvir Singh Bidhuri | | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 7th Assembly | 2020 | Ram Niwas Goel | Atishi Marlena | Aam Aadmi Party | Vijender Gupta | | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| 8th Assembly | 2025 | Vijender Gupta | Rekha Gupta | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atishi Marlena | | Aam Aadmi Party |

## Office bearers

| Office | Holder | Since |
| Speaker | Vijender Gupta | 20 February 2025 |
| Deputy Speaker | Mohan Singh Bisht | 20 February 2025 |
| Leader of the House (Chief Minister) | Rekha Gupta | 20 February 2025 |
| Deputy Chief Minister | Parvesh Verma | 20 February 2025 |
| Leader of Opposition | Atishi Marlena | 20 February 2025 |
| Deputy Leader of Opposition | Anil Jha Vats | 20 February 2025 |

## Members of Legislative Assembly

| District | No. | Constituency | Name | Party | Remarks |
| North Delhi | 1 | Narela | Raj Karan Khatri | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Central Delhi | 2 | Burari | Sanjeev Jha | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| Central Delhi | 3 | Timarpur | Surya Prakash Khatri | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North Delhi | 4 | Adarsh Nagar | Raj Kumar Bhatia | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North Delhi | 5 | Badli | Deepak Chaudhary | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North West Delhi | 6 | Rithala | Kulwant Rana | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North Delhi | 7 | Bawana (SC) | Ravinder Indraj Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | Cabinet minister |
| North West Delhi | 8 | Mundka | Gajender Drall | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North West Delhi | 9 | Kirari | Anil Jha Vats | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| North West Delhi | 10 | Sultan Pur Majra (SC) | Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| West Delhi | 11 | Nangloi Jat | Manoj Kumar Shokeen | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North West Delhi | 12 | Mangol Puri (SC) | Raj Kumar Chauhan | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North Delhi | 13 | Rohini | Vijendra Gupta | Bharatiya Janata Party | Speaker |
| North West Delhi | 14 | Shalimar Bagh | Rekha Gupta | Bharatiya Janata Party | Chief Minister |
| North Delhi | 15 | Shakur Basti | Karnail Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North West Delhi | 16 | Tri Nagar | Tilak Ram Gupta | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North Delhi | 17 | Wazirpur | Poonam Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North Delhi | 18 | Model Town | Ashok Goel | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Central Delhi | 19 | Sadar Bazar | Som Dutt | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| Central Delhi | 20 | Chandni Chowk | Punardeep Sawhney | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| Central Delhi | 21 | Matia Mahal | Aaley Mohammad Iqbal | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| Central Delhi | 22 | Ballimaran | Imran Hussain | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| Central Delhi | 23 | Karol Bagh (SC) | Vishesh Ravi | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| New Delhi | 24 | Patel Nagar (SC) | Pravesh Ratn | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| West Delhi | 25 | Moti Nagar | Harish Khurana | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| West Delhi | 26 | Madipur (SC) | Kailash Gangwal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| West Delhi | 27 | Rajouri Garden | Manjinder Singh Sirsa | Bharatiya Janata Party | Cabinet minister |
| West Delhi | 28 | Hari Nagar | Shyam Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| West Delhi | 29 | Tilak Nagar | Jarnail Singh | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| West Delhi | 30 | Janakpuri | Ashish Sood | Bharatiya Janata Party | Cabinet minister |
| South West Delhi | 31 | Vikaspuri | Pankaj Kumar Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | Cabinet minister |
| South West Delhi | 32 | Uttam Nagar | Pawan Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South West Delhi | 33 | Dwarka | Pradyuman Rajput | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South West Delhi | 34 | Matiala | Sandeep Sehrawat | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South West Delhi | 35 | Najafgarh | Neelam Pahalwan | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South West Delhi | 36 | Bijwasan | Kailash Gahlot | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South West Delhi | 37 | Palam | Kuldeep Solanki | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| New Delhi | 38 | Delhi Cantonment | Virender Singh Kadian | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| New Delhi | 39 | Rajinder Nagar | Umang Bajaj | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| New Delhi | 40 | New Delhi | Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | Cabinet Minister |
| South East Delhi | 41 | Jangpura | Tarvinder Singh Marwah | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South East Delhi | 42 | Kasturba Nagar | Neeraj Basoya | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South Delhi | 43 | Malviya Nagar | Satish Upadhyay | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| New Delhi | 44 | R. K. Puram | Anil Kumar Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South Delhi | 45 | Mehrauli | Gajender Yadav | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South Delhi | 46 | Chhatarpur | Kartar Singh Tanwar | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South Delhi | 47 | Deoli (SC) | Prem Chauhan | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| South Delhi | 48 | Ambedkar Nagar (SC) | Ajay Dutt | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| South East Delhi | 49 | Sangam Vihar | Chandan Kumar Choudhary | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| New Delhi | 50 | Greater Kailash | Shikha Roy | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| South East Delhi | 51 | Kalkaji | Atishi Marlena Singh | Aam Aadmi Party | Leader of Opposition |
| South East Delhi | 52 | Tughlakabad | Sahi Ram | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| South East Delhi | 53 | Badarpur | Ram Singh Netaji | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| South East Delhi | 54 | Okhla | Amanatullah Khan | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| East Delhi | 55 | Trilokpuri (SC) | Ravi Kant | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| East Delhi | 56 | Kondli (SC) | Kuldeep Kumar | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| East Delhi | 57 | Patparganj | Ravinder Singh Negi | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| East Delhi | 58 | Laxmi Nagar | Abhay Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Shahdara | 59 | Vishwas Nagar | Om Prakash Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| East Delhi | 60 | Krishna Nagar | Anil Goyal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| East Delhi | 61 | Gandhi Nagar | Arvinder Singh Lovely | Bharatiya Janata Party | Pro tem Speaker |
| Shahdara | 62 | Shahdara | Sanjay Goyal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Shahdara | 63 | Seemapuri (SC) | Veer Singh Dhingan | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| Shahdara | 64 | Rohtas Nagar | Jitender Mahajan | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| North East Delhi | 65 | Seelampur | Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| North East Delhi | 66 | Ghonda | Ajay Mahawar | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Shahdara | 67 | Babarpur | Gopal Rai | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| North East Delhi | 68 | Gokalpur (SC) | Surendra Kumar | Aam Aadmi Party | |
| North East Delhi | 69 | Mustafabad | Mohan Singh Bisht | Bharatiya Janata Party | Deputy Speaker |
| North East Delhi | 70 | Karawal Nagar | Kapil Mishra | Bharatiya Janata Party | Cabinet Minister |