5th Uttarakhand Assembly

Fifth Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Fifth Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Houses	Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
History
Preceded by	4th Uttarakhand Assembly
Leadership
Speaker	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan, BJP ; since 26 March 2022
Deputy Speaker	Vacant ; since 10 March 2022
Leader of the House; (Chief Minister)	Pushkar Singh Dhami, BJP ; since 4 July 2021
Leader of the Opposition	Yashpal Arya, INC ; since 10 April 2022
Deputy Leader of the Opposition	Bhuwan Chandra Kapri, INC ; since 10 April 2022
Chief Secretary	Sukhbir Singh Sandhu IAS
Structure
Seats	70
Political groups	Government (47); NDA (47) BJP (47); Official Opposition (18) INC (18); Other Opposition (3) BSP (1); IND (2); Vacant (2) Vacant (2);
Length of term	2022–2027
Elections
Voting system	first-past-the-post
Last election	14 February 2022
Next election	2027
Meeting place
	Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Bhararisain (Summer); Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Dehradun (Winter)
Website
	Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Constitution
	Constitution of India

The 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election have elected the incumbent fifth Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. Elections were held on 14 February 2022 when Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the single largest party with 47 seats in the 70-seat legislature and formed the government.^[2] The Indian National Congress with 19 seats served as the opposition.

Notable positions

S.No	Position	Portrait	Name		Constituency	Office Taken	Ref
1	Speaker		Ritu Khanduri Bhushan	Bharatiya Janata Party	Kotdwar	26 March 2022	^[3]^[4]
2	Deputy Speaker	Vacant
3	Leader of the House		Pushkar Singh Dhami (Chief Minister)	Bharatiya Janata Party	Champawat	23 March 2022	^[5]
4	Deputy Leader of the House		Premchand Aggarwal (Parliamentary and Finance Minister)	Bharatiya Janata Party	Rishikesh	23 March 2022	^[3]^[4]
5	Leader of Opposition		Yashpal Arya	Indian National Congress	Bajpur	18 April 2022	^[6]
6	Deputy Leader of Opposition		Bhuwan Chandra Kapri	Indian National Congress	Khatima	18 April 2022	^[7]

Composition of the Assembly

Party	Abbr.	Seats	Leader in the House
Bharatiya Janata Party	BJP	47	Pushkar Singh Dhami
Indian National Congress	INC	18	Yashpal Arya
Bahujan Samaj Party	BSP	01
Independent	Ind.	02	N/A
Total		70

Members of Legislative Assembly


District	No.	Constituency	Name		Remarks
Uttarkashi	1	Purola (SC)	Durgeshwar Lal	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2	Yamunotri	Sanjay Dobhal	Independent
	3	Gangotri	Suresh Chauhan	Bharatiya Janata Party
Chamoli	4	Badrinath	Rajendra Singh Bhandari	Bharatiya Janata Party
	5	Tharali (SC)	Bhupal Ram Tamta	Bharatiya Janata Party
	6	Karnaprayag	Anil Nautiyal	Bharatiya Janata Party
Rudraprayag	7	Kedarnath	Shaila Rani Rawat	Bharatiya Janata Party
Rudraprayag	8	Rudraprayag	Bharat Singh Chaudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party
Tehri Garhwal	9	Ghansali (SC)	Shakti Lal Shah	Bharatiya Janata Party
	10	Devprayag	Vinod Kandari	Bharatiya Janata Party
	11	Narendranagar	Subodh Uniyal	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	12	Pratapnagar	Vikram Singh Negi	Indian National Congress
	13	Tehri	Kishore Upadhyaya	Bharatiya Janata Party
	14	Dhanaulti	Pritam Singh Panwar	Bharatiya Janata Party
Dehradun	15	Chakrata (ST)	Pritam Singh	Indian National Congress
	16	Vikasnagar	Munna Singh Chauhan	Bharatiya Janata Party
	17	Sahaspur	Sahdev Singh Pundir	Bharatiya Janata Party
	18	Dharampur	Vinod Chamoli	Bharatiya Janata Party
	19	Raipur	Umesh Sharma 'Kau'	Bharatiya Janata Party
	20	Rajpur Road (SC)	Khajan Das	Bharatiya Janata Party
	21	Dehradun Cantonment	Savita Kapoor	Bharatiya Janata Party
	22	Mussoorie	Ganesh Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	23	Doiwala	Brij Bhushan Gairola	Bharatiya Janata Party
	24	Rishikesh	Premchand Aggarwal	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
Haridwar	25	Haridwar	Madan Kaushik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	26	BHEL Ranipur	Adesh Chauhan	Bharatiya Janata Party
	27	Jwalapur (SC)	Ravi Bahadur	Indian National Congress
	28	Bhagwanpur (SC)	Mamta Rakesh	Indian National Congress
	29	Jhabrera (SC)	Virendra Kumar	Indian National Congress
	30	Piran Kaliyar	Furqan Ahmad	Indian National Congress
	31	Roorkee	Pradip Batra	Bharatiya Janata Party
	32	Khanpur	Umesh Kumar	Independent
	33	Manglaur	Sarwat Karim Ansari	Bahujan Samaj Party	Died on 30 October 2023^[8]
	33	Manglaur	Vacant
	34	Laksar	Shahzad	Bahujan Samaj Party
	35	Haridwar Rural	Anupama Rawat	Indian National Congress
Pauri Garhwal	36	Yamkeshwar	Renu Bisht	Bharatiya Janata Party
	37	Pauri (SC)	Raj Kumar Pori	Bharatiya Janata Party
	38	Srinagar	Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	39	Chaubattakhal	Satpal Maharaj	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	40	Lansdowne	Dilip Singh Rawat	Bharatiya Janata Party
	41	Kotdwar	Ritu Khanduri Bhushan	Bharatiya Janata Party	Speaker
Pithoragarh	42	Dharchula	Harish Singh Dhami	Indian National Congress
	43	Didihat	Bishan Singh Chuphal	Bharatiya Janata Party
	44	Pithoragarh	Mayukh Mahar	Indian National Congress
	45	Gangolihat (SC)	Fakir Ram Tamta	Bharatiya Janata Party
Bageshwar	46	Kapkot	Suresh Singh Garhia	Bharatiya Janata Party
	47	Bageshwar (SC)	Chandan Ram Das	Bharatiya Janata Party	Died on 26 April 2023^[9]
	47	Bageshwar (SC)	Parwati Dass	Bharatiya Janata Party	Elected in September 2023 by-election^[10]
Almora	48	Dwarahat	Madan Singh Bisht	Indian National Congress
	49	Salt	Mahesh Singh Jeena	Bharatiya Janata Party
	50	Ranikhet	Pramod Nainwal	Bharatiya Janata Party
	51	Someshwar (SC)	Rekha Arya	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	52	Almora	Manoj Tiwari	Indian National Congress
	53	Jageshwar	Mohan Singh Mahara	Bharatiya Janata Party
Champawat	54	Lohaghat	Khushal Singh Adhikari	Indian National Congress
	55	Champawat	Kailash Chandra Gahtori	Bharatiya Janata Party	Kailash Chandra Gahtori resigns, vacates seat for Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami^[11]
	55	Champawat	Pushkar Singh Dhami	Bharatiya Janata Party	Won in 2022 by-poll^[12]
Nainital	56	Lalkuan	Mohan Singh Bisht	Bharatiya Janata Party
	57	Bhimtal	Ram Singh Kaira	Bharatiya Janata Party
	58	Nainital (SC)	Sarita Arya	Bharatiya Janata Party
	59	Haldwani	Sumit Hridayesh	Indian National Congress
	60	Kaladhungi	Banshidhar Bhagat	Bharatiya Janata Party
	61	Ramnagar	Diwan Singh Bisht	Bharatiya Janata Party
Udham Singh Nagar	62	Jaspur	Adesh Singh Chauhan	Indian National Congress
	63	Kashipur	Trilok Singh Cheema	Bharatiya Janata Party
	64	Bajpur (SC)	Yashpal Arya	Indian National Congress	Leader of Opposition
	65	Gadarpur	Arvind Pandey	Bharatiya Janata Party
	66	Rudrapur	Shiv Arora	Bharatiya Janata Party
	67	Kichha	Tilak Raj Behar	Indian National Congress
	68	Sitarganj	Saurabh Bahuguna	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	69	Nanakmatta (ST)	Gopal Singh Rana	Indian National Congress
	70	Khatima	Bhuwan Chandra Kapri	Indian National Congress	Deputy Leader of Opposition

References

^ "SS Sandhu is Uttarakhand chief secy; Gadkari hails his tenure as NHAI chief". Tribuneindia News Service. 2021-07-05. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
^ "Uttarakhand Election Result Live: 70 में 47 सीटों पर भाजपा और 19 पर कांग्रेस को मिली जीत, पीएम मोदी बोले- उत्तराखंड में रचा नया इतिहास".
^ ^a ^b "रितु खंडूरी ने भरा नामांकन: 26 मार्च को उत्तराखंड को मिल जाएगी पहली महिला विधानसभा अध्यक्ष".
^ ^a ^b "उत्तराखंड: रितु खंडूरी बनीं पहली महिला विधानसभा अध्यक्ष, निर्विरोध हुआ चुनाव, संसदीय कार्यमंत्री होंगे प्रेमचंद अग्रवाल".
^ "Dhami: Dhami Takes Oath as 12th Cm, 8-member Cabinet Sworn in | Dehradun News - Times of India". The Times of India.
^ "Yashpal Arya - Biodata" (PDF). ukvidhansabha.uk.gov.in.
^ "Congress names its Uttarakhand state unit chief, CLP leader". 11 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "BSP legislator Sarwat Karim Ansari dies at 66". The Times of India. 2023-10-31. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
^ "Uttarakhand minister Chandan Ram Dass dies at 65". News9live. 2023-04-26. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
^ "BJP retains Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
^ "Champawat MLA Kailash Gahtori resigns, vacates seat for Uttarakhand CM". business-standard.com. 21 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "Pushkar Singh Dhami wins Champawat bypolls by 55,000 votes, retains CM post". The Indian Express. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2022.

[1] "SS Sandhu is Uttarakhand chief secy; Gadkari hails his tenure as NHAI chief". Tribuneindia News Service. 2021-07-05. Retrieved 2022-10-08.

[2] "Uttarakhand Election Result Live: 70 में 47 सीटों पर भाजपा और 19 पर कांग्रेस को मिली जीत, पीएम मोदी बोले- उत्तराखंड में रचा नया इतिहास".

[auto-3] "रितु खंडूरी ने भरा नामांकन: 26 मार्च को उत्तराखंड को मिल जाएगी पहली महिला विधानसभा अध्यक्ष".

[auto1-4] "उत्तराखंड: रितु खंडूरी बनीं पहली महिला विधानसभा अध्यक्ष, निर्विरोध हुआ चुनाव, संसदीय कार्यमंत्री होंगे प्रेमचंद अग्रवाल".

[5] "Dhami: Dhami Takes Oath as 12th Cm, 8-member Cabinet Sworn in | Dehradun News - Times of India". The Times of India.

[6] "Yashpal Arya - Biodata" (PDF). ukvidhansabha.uk.gov.in.

[7] "Congress names its Uttarakhand state unit chief, CLP leader". 11 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2023.

[8] "BSP legislator Sarwat Karim Ansari dies at 66". The Times of India. 2023-10-31. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2023-12-19.

[9] "Uttarakhand minister Chandan Ram Dass dies at 65". News9live. 2023-04-26. Retrieved 2023-04-26.

[10] "BJP retains Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 8 September 2023.

[11] "Champawat MLA Kailash Gahtori resigns, vacates seat for Uttarakhand CM". business-standard.com. 21 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2023.

[12] "Pushkar Singh Dhami wins Champawat bypolls by 55,000 votes, retains CM post". The Indian Express. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2022.

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5th Uttarakhand Assembly

Contents

Notable positions

Composition of the Assembly

Members of Legislative Assembly

See also

References