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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 | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 117 |
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Political groups | Government (91)
Official Opposition (15)
Other opposition (10) Vacant (1)
|
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 | |
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.[3][4][5] 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.[6][7]
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.[8]
History
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.[9] Other 10 cabinet ministers of the Mann ministry, took oath on 19 March.
On 22 June 2022, Speaker kultar singh sandwa announced that the Punjab 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.[10]
Operation Lotus
Aam Aadmi Party, the ruling party in Punjab, accused BJP of spending ₹1375 Crore in Punjab to bribe the AAP MLAs as part of Operation Lotus. Punjab's Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said in a press conference, "Our MLAs have been approached with offers of up to Rs 25 crore to break away from AAP. The MLAs were told: “bade bau ji se milwayenge”. These MLAs have also been offered big posts. They were told that if you get more MLAs along, you would be given upto Rs 75 crore,"[11][12]
AAP government called a special Session of the Assembly on 22 September to bring a "confidence motion". Governor Banwarilal Purohit refused to allow permission for the special session. AAP said that Governor was acting on the behest of BJP in cancelling the 22 September session so that Operation Lotus can succeed. Business Advisory Committee of the Assembly has representatives of all the parties and it decides the legislative business that occurs in the Assembly.[13] The opposition parties Congress, SAD and BJP hailed governors decision to prevent the special session from occurring.[14] CM Mann said that "Gov/Presi consent before any session of Legislature is a formality. In 75 years, no Presi/Gov ever asked list of Legislative business before calling session. Legislative business is decided by BAC (Business Advisory Committee of the House) and Speaker. Next Gov will ask all speeches also to be approved by him. Its too much." On 25 September, Purohit agreed to summon the special session of the Assembly.[15]
Leaders
| Title | Name | Portrait | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constitutional Posts | |||
| Governor | Banwarilal Purohit | 
|
31 August 2021
|
| Speaker | Kultar Singh Sandhwan[16] | 
|
21 March 2022 |
| Deputy speaker | Jai Krishan Singh[17] | 
|
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 |
Committees
List of committees and chairpersons for the term 2022-2023.[18]
Composition
By alliance and party
| Alliance | Party | Seats | Legislative
Party Leader |
Bench | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won [20] | Change | ||||||||
| Aam Aadmi Party | 92 |  72
|
Bhagwant Singh Mann[21] | 92 | Government | ||||
| Indian National Congress | 18 |  59
|
Partap Singh Bajwa | 19 | Opposition | ||||
| SAD+ | Shiromani Akali Dal | 3 | 12
|
Manpreet Singh Ayali[22] | 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 | |||||||