The Haryana Legislative Assembly (

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: ''Hariyāṇā Vidhāna Sabhā'') is the

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of the Indian state of

Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...

. The seating of the assembly is at

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, the capital of the state. There are seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member

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system. The term of office is five years.

Significance

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is responsible to .

History

The body was founded in 1966, when the state was created from part of the state of Punjab, by the

Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 The Punjab Reorganisation Act was passed by the Indian Parliament on 18 September 1966, separating territory from the state of Punjab, most of which formed the new state of Haryana. Some was transferred to Himachal Pradesh, then a Union territor ...

. The house initially had 54 seats, ten reserved for scheduled castes, this was increased to 81 seats in March 1967, and to 90 seats (including 17 reserved seats) in 1977. Highest number of seats ever won was in 1977 when

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won 75 out of 90 seats when in the aftermath of 1975–77 emergency by

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's (INC)

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. INC won only 3 seats,

Vishal Haryana Party The Vishal Haryana Party (translation: Greater Haryana Party) was a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, led by Rao Birender Singh. The party was formed in an effort to bring culturally similar groups in the region together, but rec ...

and independents both won 5 seats each. Since the formation of Haryana in 1966, the state politics became infamously dominated by the

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clans of five political dynasts, Lal trio (

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Bansi Lal Bansi Lal Legha (26 August 1927 – 28 March 2006), also known as Chaudhary Bansi Lal, was an Indian politician and independence activist, who served as the Minister of Defence of India and three-time Chief Minister of Haryana. He is also kno ...

and Bhajan Lal) as well as the Hooda clan and Rao Birender clan. The Mewat region, remotely to the rest of Haryana since its formation, has been dominated by three major political dynasts ( Tayyab Husain, Rahim Khan, Khurshid Ahmed). The infamous

Aaya Ram Gaya Ram ''Aaya Ram Gaya Ram'' () is a Hindi expression referring to the practice of turncoating, or switching parties in the context of a legislative body. The term originated in 1967 in Haryana when the Member of the Legislative Assembly Gaya Lal sh ...

politics, named after

Gaya Lal Gaya Lal was an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress. Lal was a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from the Hassanpur constituency (now Hodal) in the Palwal district. ''Aaya Ram Gaya Ram'' incident Gaya Lal ...

in 1967, of frequent floor-crossing,

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ing, switching parties and political horse trading within short span of time became associated with Haryana.Paras Diwan, 1979, Aya Ram Gaya Ram: The Politics Of Defection, Journal of the Indian Law Institute, Vol. 21, No. 3, July–September 1979, pp. 291-312.

Floor Leaders and Ministers

List of Assemblies

The elections for the Haryana Vidhan Sabha are being held since 1967.

Members of Legislative Assembly

References

External links

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Map of Haryana Assembly constituencies
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