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Election for the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly was held in the Indian state of Punjab. Polling was done on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes declaration of results was done on 10 March 2022.[2][3][4] The Fifteenth Punjab assembly was dissolved on 11 March 2022. The dissolution was necessitated after the results of the election was declared on 10 March.[5][6] In the Sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly, 92 members of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party form the treasury benches. The main opposition party in the assembly is Indian National Congress with 18 seats. The other parties which are in opposition are the Shiromani Akali Dal, the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and independents. AAP MLA, Kultar Singh Sandhwan was announced as the speaker of the assembly.[7]
Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Punjab | |
|---|---|
| Type | |
| Type | |
| History | |
| Established | 11 March 2022 |
| Preceded by | 15th Punjab Legislative Assembly |
| Leadership | |
Banwarilal Purohit since 31 August 2021 | |
Deputy Speaker | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 117 |
Political groups | Government (91)
Official Opposition (13)
Other opposition (9) Vacant (4)
|
Length of term | 5 years |
| Elections | |
| First-past-the-post | |
Last election | 20 February 2022 |
Next election | February 2027 or earlier |
| Meeting place | |
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| Website | |
| Punjab Legislative Assembly | |
| Constitution | |
| Constitution of India | |
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann took the oath of office on 16 March at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of Bhagat Singh. Inderbir Singh Nijjar took the oath as Protem Speaker. On 17 March Nijjar administered the oath of office to all the 117 legislators of the Sixteenth Punjab Legislative assembly.[8] Other 10 cabinet ministers of the Mann ministry, took oath on 19 March.
On 22 June 2022, Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan announced that the legislators will get answers on all issues that they raise during the Assembly debates. The answers would be provided during the Zero Hour. This was done for the first time in the history of Punjab Assembly.[9]
| Title | Name | Portrait | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constitutional Posts | |||
| Governor | Gulab Chand Kataria |  |
30 July 2024
|
| Speaker | Kultar Singh Sandhwan[10] |  |
21 March 2022 |
| Deputy speaker | Jai Krishan Singh[11] |  |
30 June 2022 |
| Leader of the House (Chief Minister) |
Bhagwant Mann |  |
16 March 2022 |
| Leader of Opposition | Pratap Singh Bajwa |  |
9 April 2022 |
| Political posts | |||
| Leader of AAP legislature party | Bhagwant Mann | |
16 March 2022 |
| Leader of INC legislature party | Pratap Singh Bajwa | |
9 April 2022 |
| Leader of SAD legislature party | Manpreet Singh Ayali |  |
April 2022 |
List of committees and chairpersons for the term 2022-2023.[12]
| Alliance | Party | Seats | Legislative
Party Leader |
Bench | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won [14] | Change | ||||||||
| Aam Aadmi Party | 92 |  72 |
Bhagwant Singh Mann[15] | 92 | Government | ||||
| Indian National Congress | 18 |  59 |
Partap Singh Bajwa | 19 | Opposition | ||||
| SAD+ | Shiromani Akali Dal | 3 | 12 |
Manpreet Singh Ayali[16] | 6 | Others | |||
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 1 | 1 |
Nachhatar Pal | ||||||
| NDA | Bharatiya Janata Party | 2 | 1 |
Ashwani Kumar Sharma | |||||
| Independents | 1 | 1 |
Rana Inder Partap Singh | ||||||
| Total | 117 | 117 | |||||||
On 22 March, the assembly unanimously passed a resolution to install the statues of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar and Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the assembly complex.[18]
On 1 April, the assembly unanimously passed a resolution to immediately transfer union territory of Chandigarh — the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, to Punjab.[19][20]
On 30 June, the assembly passed a resolution recommending the state government that it urges the Government of India to immediately rollback the Agnipath scheme. The resolution was opposed by BJP members of the assembly who were in minority. Punjab was the only state to pass such a resolution.[21]
On 30 June, the assembly passed a resolution recommending the state government that it urges the Government of India to not alter the nature and character of Panjab University. The resolution was opposed by BJP members of the assembly who were in minority.[22]
| Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBD | 44 | Chabbewal | Raj Kumar Chabbewal | Indian National Congress | Resigned on 15 March 2024[23] | TBD | |||
| 10 July 2024[24] | 34 | Jalandhar West | Sheetal Angural | Aam Aadmi Party | Resigned on 28 March 2024[25] | Mohinder Pal Bhagat | |||
| TBD | 10 | Dera Baba Nanak | Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa | Indian National Congress | Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024 | TBD | |||
| 84 | Gidderbaha | Amrinder Singh Raja Warring | Indian National Congress | TBD | |||||
| 107 | Barnala | Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer | Aam Aadmi Party | TBD | |||||
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