Delhi Legislative Assembly

Delhi Legislative Assembly
Delhi Legislative Assembly
8th Delhi Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 years
History
Founded	7 March 1952 (74 years ago)
Preceded by	7th Delhi Assembly
Leadership
Lieutenant Governor	Vinai Kumar Saxena ; since 26 May 2022
Speaker	Vijender Gupta, BJP ; since 20 February 2025
Deputy Speaker	Mohan Singh Bisht, BJP ; since 26 February 2025
Chief Minister ; (Leader of the House)	Rekha Gupta, BJP ; since 20 February 2025
Leader of the Opposition	Atishi Marlena, AAP ; since 22 February 2025
Deputy Leader of the Opposition	Anil Jha Vats, AAP ; since 23 February 2025
Chief Whip	Abhay Verma, BJP ; since 23 February 2025
Structure
Seats	70
Political groups	Government (48) BJP (48); ; Official Opposition (22) AAP (22);
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post voting
Last election	5 February 2025
Next election	February 2030
Meeting place
	Old Secretariat, Vikram Nagar, Civil Lines, Delhi
Website
	Legislative Assembly of Delhi

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.^[1]^[2]

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.^[1]

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.^[1]^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[1] The site was built over the land of the former Old Chandrawal village.^[5]

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.^[6]

List of assemblies


Assembly	Election year	Speaker	Chief Minister		Opposition Leader
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
			Sahib Singh Verma
			Sushma Swaraj
2nd Assembly	1998	Chaudhary Prem Singh	Sheila Dikshit	Indian National Congress	Madan Lal Khurana	Bharatiya Janata Party
3rd Assembly	2003	Ajay Maken			Vijay Kumar Malhotra
3rd Assembly	2003	Chaudhary Prem Singh
4th Assembly	2008	Yoganand Shastri
5th Assembly	2013	Maninder Singh Dhir	Arvind Kejriwal	Aam Aadmi Party	Harsh Vardhan
6th Assembly	2015	Ram Niwas Goel			Vijender Gupta
7th Assembly	2020				Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
7th Assembly	2020		Atishi Marlena		Vijender Gupta
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
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		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
North Delhi	5	Badli	Deepak Chaudhary
North West Delhi	6	Rithala	Kulwant Rana
North Delhi	7	Bawana (SC)	Ravinder Indraj Singh		Cabinet minister
North West Delhi	8	Mundka	Gajender Drall
	9	Kirari	Anil Jha Vats	Aam Aadmi Party
	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
North Delhi	13	Rohini	Vijender Gupta		Speaker
North West Delhi	14	Shalimar Bagh	Rekha Gupta		Chief Minister
North Delhi	15	Shakur Basti	Karnail Singh
North West Delhi	16	Tri Nagar	Tilak Ram Gupta
North Delhi	17	Wazirpur	Poonam Sharma
North Delhi	18	Model Town	Ashok Goel
Central Delhi	19	Sadar Bazar	Som Dutt	Aam Aadmi Party
	20	Chandni Chowk	Punardeep Sawhney
	21	Matia Mahal	Aaley Mohammad Iqbal
	22	Ballimaran	Imran Hussain
	23	Karol Bagh (SC)	Vishesh Ravi
New Delhi	24	Patel Nagar (SC)	Pravesh Ratn
West Delhi	25	Moti Nagar	Harish Khurana	Bharatiya Janata Party
	26	Madipur (SC)	Kailash Gangwal
	27	Rajouri Garden	Manjinder Singh Sirsa		Cabinet minister
	28	Hari Nagar	Shyam Sharma
	29	Tilak Nagar	Jarnail Singh	Aam Aadmi Party
	30	Janakpuri	Ashish Sood	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet minister
South West Delhi	31	Vikaspuri	Pankaj Kumar Singh		Cabinet minister
	32	Uttam Nagar	Pawan Sharma
	33	Dwarka	Pradyuman Rajput
	34	Matiala	Sandeep Sehrawat
	35	Najafgarh	Neelam Pahalwan
	36	Bijwasan	Kailash Gahlot
	37	Palam	Kuldeep Solanki
New Delhi	38	Delhi Cantonment	Virender Singh Kadian	Aam Aadmi Party
	39	Rajinder Nagar	Umang Bajaj	Bharatiya Janata Party
	40	New Delhi	Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma		Cabinet Minister
South East Delhi	41	Jangpura	Tarvinder Singh Marwah
South East Delhi	42	Kasturba Nagar	Neeraj Basoya
South Delhi	43	Malviya Nagar	Satish Upadhyay
New Delhi	44	R. K. Puram	Anil Kumar Sharma
South Delhi	45	Mehrauli	Gajender Yadav
	46	Chhatarpur	Kartar Singh Tanwar
	47	Deoli (SC)	Prem Chauhan	Aam Aadmi Party
	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	Aam Aadmi Party	Leader of Opposition
	52	Tughlakabad	Sahi Ram
	53	Badarpur	Ram Singh Netaji
	54	Okhla	Amanatullah Khan
East Delhi	55	Trilokpuri (SC)	Ravikant Ujjain	Bharatiya Janata Party
	56	Kondli (SC)	Kuldeep Kumar	Aam Aadmi Party
	57	Patparganj	Ravinder Singh Negi	Bharatiya Janata Party
	58	Laxmi Nagar	Abhay Verma
Shahdara	59	Vishwas Nagar	Om Prakash Sharma
East Delhi	60	Krishna Nagar	Anil Goyal
East Delhi	61	Gandhi Nagar	Arvinder Singh Lovely		Pro tem Speaker
Shahdara	62	Shahdara	Sanjay Goyal
	63	Seemapuri (SC)	Veer Singh Dhingan	Aam Aadmi Party
	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
	69	Mustafabad	Mohan Singh Bisht	Bharatiya Janata Party	Deputy Speaker
	70	Karawal Nagar	Kapil Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "History of Delhi Legislative Assembly". Legislative Assembly of Delhi website. Archived from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
^ "Brahm Prakash: Delhi's first CM, ace parliamentarian". Hindustan Times. 27 September 2013. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
^ "Delhi Metropolitan Council(1966–1990)". Delhi Legislative Assembly. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
^ "THE CONSTITUTION (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991". Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
^ Sharma, Manoj (21 September 2013). "Delhi Vidhan Sabha was once British seat of power". *Hindustan Times*. Retrieved 8 November 2025 – via https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/delhi-vidhan-sabha-was-once-british-seat-of-power/story-QxslbJGljuzjJ1LHKYbpuJ.html
^ "Architectural marvels for the new capital". Hindustan Times. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014.

External links

Official Site of Legislature in Delhi
Legislative Bodies of India- Delhi
"The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act, 1991" at the National Informatics Centre website

[History-1] "History of Delhi Legislative Assembly". Legislative Assembly of Delhi website. Archived from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2014.

[2] "Brahm Prakash: Delhi's first CM, ace parliamentarian". Hindustan Times. 27 September 2013. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.

[3] "Delhi Metropolitan Council(1966–1990)". Delhi Legislative Assembly. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.

[4] "THE CONSTITUTION (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991". Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2014.

[5] Sharma, Manoj (21 September 2013). "Delhi Vidhan Sabha was once British seat of power". *Hindustan Times*. Retrieved 8 November 2025 – via https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/delhi-vidhan-sabha-was-once-british-seat-of-power/story-QxslbJGljuzjJ1LHKYbpuJ.html

[6] "Architectural marvels for the new capital". Hindustan Times. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014.

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v t e Delhi Legislative Assembly
Assemblies	First (1993–98) Second (1998–2003) Third (2003–08) Fourth (2008–13) Fifth (2013–14) Sixth (2015–20) Seventh (2020–2025) Eighth (2025–)
Constituencies	Adarsh Nagar Ambedkar Nagar Babarpur Badarpur Badli Ballimaran Bawana Bijwasan Burari Chandni Chowk Chhatarpur Delhi Cantt Deoli Dwarka Gandhi Nagar Ghonda Gokalpur Greater Kailash Hari Nagar Janakpuri Jangpura Kalkaji Karawal Nagar Karol Bagh Kasturba Nagar Kirari Kondli Krishna Nagar Laxmi Nagar Madipur Malviya Nagar Mangolpuri Matia Mahal Matiala Mehrauli Model Town Moti Nagar Mundka Mustafabad Najafgarh Nangloi Jat Narela New Delhi Okhla Palam Patel Nagar Patparganj R. K. Puram Rajendra Nagar Rajouri Garden Rithala Rohini Rohtas Nagar Sadar Bazar Sangam Vihar Seelampur Seemapuri Shahdara Shakur Basti Shalimar Bagh Sultan Pur Majra Tilak Nagar Timarpur Tri Nagar Trilokpuri Tughlakabad Uttam Nagar Vikaspuri Vishwas Nagar Wazirpur
Former constituencies	Geeta Colony Yamuna Vihar Sahibabad Daulatpur

v t e Elections in Delhi
General elections	1951 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019 2024
Legislative Assembly	1952 (Interim) 1993 1998 2003 2008 2013 2015 2020 2025 Next
Metropolitan Council	1966 (Interim) 1967 1972 1977 1983
Municipal Corporations	1997 2002 2007 2012 2017 2022 Next

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