Yanam is a legislative assembly constituency in the Union territory of Puducherry in India, covering the area of

Yanam Yanam () (previously Yanaon, ()) is a town located in the Yanam district in Puducherry, India. It has a population of 35,000 and is entirely surrounded by Andhra Pradesh. It was formerly a French colony for nearly 200 years, and, though unite ...

. Yanam assembly constituency is part of

Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency covers the entire Union Territory of Puducherry. Pondicherry became a union territory after the implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India in 1962 and changed its name to Puduche ...

Member of the Assembly

Member of Representative Assembly of French India

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: Madimchetty Satianarayanamourty; Kamichetty Sri Parassourama Varaprassada Rao Naidu, *

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the Uni ...

: Madimchetty Satianarayanamourty; Canacala Tataya. The ''de facto transfer'' of French settlements in India has happened on 1 November 1954. These four French settlements were organized as State of Pondicherry. Later, on 11 June 1955, The Government of India has dissolved the ''Representative Assembly'' by State of Pondicherry (Representative Assembly Decree Amendment) Order, 1955.

Member of Pondicherry Representative Assembly

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

: Erra Jagannadha Rao (Congress); Kamichetty Sri Parassourama Varaprassada Rao Naidu (Congress). *

1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...

: Kanakalapeta constituency: Kamichetty Savithri (Ind.); Adiandhrapeta constituency: Kamichetty Sri Parassourama Varaprassada Rao Naidu (Ind.). As the people aspired for a popular government, the

Indian Parliament The Parliament of India (ISO: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Government of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People). The President o ...

enacted The Union Territories Act, 1963 that came into force on 1 July 1963, and the pattern of government prevailing in the rest of the country was introduced in this territory. The Pondicherry Representative Assembly was converted into the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry on 1 July 1963 as per Section 54(3) of The Union Territories Act, 1963 and its members were deemed to have been elected to the Assembly. Thus, the MLAs of Yanam to the First Legislvative Assembly (1963–1964) were Smt. Kamichetty Savithri and Shri Kamichetty Sri Parassourama Varaprassada Rao Naidu.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The elections for the Puducherry Legislative Assembly are held since 1964. Before the Elections to the

Pondicherry Legislative Assembly The Puducherry Legislative Assembly ( French: ''Assemblée législative de Pondichéry'') is the unicameral legislature of the Indian union territory (UT) of Puducherry, which comprises four districts: Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahé and Yanam. ...

were held in August 1964, the constituencies were delimited by the Delimitation Commission and the entire territory was divided into 30 single-member constituencies and 1 seat is allocated for Yanam region.

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