Lower house of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature
TheAndhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Telugu : ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ శాసన సభ,ISO :Āndhra Pradēś Śāsana Sabha ) is thelower house of thebicameral legislature of theIndian state ,Andhra Pradesh .[ 1]
The Legislative Assembly consists of 175 members who are elected by adultuniversal suffrage under thefirst-past-the-post system. The duration of the Assembly is five years from the date appointed for its first meeting unless it is decided to dissolve the Assembly sooner. The Legislative Assembly's main functions include legislation, overseeing of administration, passing the budget, and airing public grievances.[ 2]
The Legislative Assembly holds three sessions annually, one for Budget and the other for Monsoon and Winter sessions.[ 3]
The Legislative Assembly took up residence in the interim Legislative Assembly Building inAmaravati beginning from the 2017 Budget session. The new building has systems for automatic speech translation and automatic vote recording.[ 4]
The Andhra Legislative Assembly[ 5] Andhra State on 1 October 1953. WhenAndhra Pradesh was formed on 1 November 1956 by merging Andhra State with the Telugu-speaking areas ofHyderabad State , the 140 Members of the Andhra State Legislative Assembly and 105 Members representing the Telugu-speaking areas of Hyderabad State merged to form APLA. At the time of formation, the Legislature wasunicameral with only an Assembly with 301 Members. The first meeting was held on 3 December 1956. Sri Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao and Palasa Surya Chandra Rao were the first Speaker and the firstDeputy Speaker , respectively.
With the formation of theLegislative Council on 1 July 1958, the Andhra Pradesh Legislature becamebicameral and remained so until 1 June 1985 when the Legislative Council was dissolved on 31 May 1985 during the period of the Eighth Legislative Assembly and the state legislature once again became unicameral.[ 2]
On 2 June 2014, the state of Andhra Pradesh was split to form the new state ofTelangana . Andhra Pradesh was allocated 175 legislative seats with the remaining 119 allocated toTelangana Legislative Assembly .[ 6]
The2019 election was held on 11 April 2019,[ 7] YSR Congress Party won 151 seats and theTelugu Desam Party bagged 23 seats.Janasena Party won one seat.[ 8] 2024 election was held 13 May 2024, theKutami alliance won a 164 seats, whilst the YSR Congress Party won 11 seats.[ 9]
The current assembly is the sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh.
[ edit ] [ edit ] [ edit ] List of the assemblies [ edit ] Members of Legislative Assembly [ edit ] District No. Constituency Name Party Remarks Srikakulam 1 Ichchapuram Ashok Bendalam TDP Whip 2 Palasa Gouthu Sireesha 3 Tekkali Kinjarapu Atchannaidu Minister of Agriculture ,Co-operation , Marketing,Animal Husbandry, Dairy development & Fisheries 4 Pathapatnam Mamidi Govinda Rao 5 Srikakulam Gondu Shankar 6 Amadalavalasa Koona Ravi Kumar 7 Etcherla Nadukuditi Eswara Rao BJP 8 Narasannapeta Baggu Ramanamurthy TDP Vizianagaram 9 Rajam (SC)Kondru Murali Mohan Parvathipuram Manyam 10 Palakonda (ST)Nimmaka Jaya Krishna JSP 11 Kurupam (ST)Jagadeeswari Thoyaka TDP Whip 12 Parvathipuram (SC)Bonela Vijaya Chandra 13 Salur (ST)Gummadi Sandhya Rani Minister of Women & Child Welfare ,Tribal Welfare Vizianagaram 14 Bobbili R. V. S. K. K. Ranga Rao 15 Cheepurupalli Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao 16 Gajapathinagaram Kondapalli Srinivas Minister of MSME, SERP, NRI Empowerment and Relations 17 Nellimarla Lokam Naga Madhavi JSP 18 Vizianagaram Pusapati Aditi Vijayalakshmi TDP 19 Srungavarapukota Kolla Lalitha Kumari Visakhapatnam 20 Bhimili Ganta Srinivasa Rao 21 Visakhapatnam East Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu 22 Visakhapatnam South Vamsi Krishna Srinivasa Yadav JSP 23 Visakhapatnam North Penmetsa Vishnu Kumar Raju BJP BJP Floor Leader 24 Visakhapatnam West P. G. V. R. Naidu TDP Whip 25 Gajuwaka Palla Srinivasa Rao President of Telugu Desam Party, Andhra Pradesh Anakapalli 26 Chodavaram Kalidindi Suryana Naga Sanyasi Raju 27 Madugula Bandaru Satyanarayana Murthy Alluri Sitharama Raju 28 Araku Valley (ST)Regam Matyalingam YSRCP 29 Paderu (ST)Matsyarasa Visweswara Raju Anakapalli 30 Anakapalli Konathala Ramakrishna JSP Visakhapatnam 31 Pendurthi Panchakarla Ramesh Babu Anakapalli 32 Yelamanchili Sundarapu Vijay Kumar 33 Payakaraopet (SC)Vangalapudi Anitha TDP Minister of Home & Disaster Management 34 Narsipatnam Chintakayala Ayyannapatrudu Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Kakinada 35 Tuni Yanamala Divya Whip 36 Prathipadu (Kakinada) Varapula Sathyaprabha 37 Pithapuram Konidela Pawan Kalyan JSP 38 Kakinada Rural Pantham Venkateswara Rao 39 Peddapuram Nimmakayala Chinarajappa TDP East Godavari 40 Anaparthy Ramakrishna Reddy Nallamilli BJP Kakinada 41 Kakinada City Vanamadi Venkateswara Rao TDP Konaseema 42 Ramachandrapuram Vasamsetti Subhash Minister of Labour ,Factories ,Boilers & Insurance Medical Services 43 Mummidivaram Datla Subbaraju Whip 44 Amalapuram (SC)Aithabathula Anandarao 45 Razole (SC)Deva Varaprasad JSP 46 Gannavaram (Konaseema) (SC)Giddi Satyanarayana 47 Kothapeta Bandaru Satyananda Rao TDP 48 Mandapeta V. Jogeswara Rao East Godavari 49 Rajanagaram Bathula Balaramakrishna JSP 50 Rajahmundry City Adireddy Srinivas TDP 51 Rajahmundry Rural Gorantla Butchaiah Chowdary Kakinada 52 Jaggampeta Jyothula Nehru Alluri Sitharama Raju 53 Rampachodavaram (ST)Miriyala Sirisha Devi East Godavari 54 Kovvur (SC)Muppidi Venkateswara Rao 55 Nidadavole Kandula Durgesh JSP Minister of Tourism & Culture ,Cinematography West Godavari 56 Achanta Satyanarayana Pithani TDP 57 Palakollu Nimmala Rama Naidu Minister of Water Resources Development 58 Narasapuram Bommidi Narayana Nayakar JSP Whip 59 Bhimavaram Pulaparthi Ramanjaneyulu 60 Undi Raghu Rama Krishna Raju TDP Deputy Speaker 61 Tanuku Arimilli Radha Krishna 62 Tadepalligudem Bolisetti Srinivas JSP Whip Eluru 63 Unguturu Dharmaraju Patsamatla 64 Denduluru Chintamaneni Prabhakar TDP 65 Eluru Radha Krishnayya Badeti East Godavari 66 Gopalapuram (SC)Maddipati Venkata Raju Eluru 67 Polavaram (ST)Chirri Balaraju JSP 68 Chintalapudi (SC)Roshan Kumar Songa TDP NTR 69 Tiruvuru (SC)Kolikapudi Srinivasa Rao Eluru 70 Nuzvid Kolusu Parthasarathy Minister of Housing ,Information & Public Relations Krishna 71 Gannavaram (Krishna) Yarlagadda Venkata Rao Whip 72 Gudivada Venigandla Ramu Eluru 73 Kaikalur Kamineni Srinivas BJP Krishna 74 Pedana Kagitha Krishna Prasad TDP 75 Machilipatnam Kollu Ravindra Minister of Mines & Geology ,Excise 76 Avanigadda Mandali Buddha Prasad JSP 77 Pamarru (SC)Varla Kumar Raja TDP 78 Penamaluru Bode Prasad NTR 79 Vijayawada West Sujana Chowdary BJP 80 Vijayawada Central Bonda Umamaheswara Rao TDP Whip 81 Vijayawada East Gadde Ramamohan 82 Mylavaram Vasantha Venkata Krishna Prasad 83 Nandigama (SC)Tangirala Sowmya Whip 84 Jaggayyapeta Rajagopal Sreeram Palnadu 85 Pedakurapadu Bhashyam Praveen Guntur 86 Tadikonda (SC)Tenali Sravan Kumar 87 Mangalagiri Nara Lokesh 88 Ponnuru Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar Bapatla 89 Vemuru (SC)Nakka Ananda Babu 90 Repalle Anagani Satya Prasad Minister of Revenue, Registration & Stamps Guntur 91 Tenali Nadendla Manohar JSP Bapatla 92 Bapatla Vegesana Narendra Varma Raju TDP Guntur 93 Prathipadu (Guntur) (SC)Burla Ramanjaneyulu 94 Guntur West Galla Madhavi 95 Guntur East Mohammed Naseer Ahmed Palnadu 96 Chilakaluripet Prathipati Pulla Rao 97 Narasaraopet Chadalavada Aravinda Babu 98 Sattenapalle Kanna Lakshminaraya 99 Vinukonda G. V. Anjaneyulu Chief Whip 100 Gurazala Yarapathineni Srinivasa Rao 101 Macherla Julakanti Brahmananda Reddy Prakasam 102 Yerragondapalem (SC)Tatiparthi Chandrasekhar YSRCP 103 Darsi Buchepalli Siva Prasad Reddy Bapatla 104 Parchur Yeluri Sambasiva Rao TDP 105 Addanki Gottipati Ravi Kumar Minister of Energy 106 Chirala Madduluri Malakondaiah Yadav Prakasam 107 Santhanuthalapadu (SC)B. N. Vijay Kumar 108 Ongole Damacharla Janardhana Rao Nellore 109 Kandukur Inturi Nageswara Rao Prakasam 110 Kondapi (SC)Dola Sree Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy Minister of Social Welfare ,Disabled & Senior Citizen Welfare ,Affairs of Sachivalayam & Village Volunteer 111 Markapuram Kandula Narayana Reddy 112 Giddalur Muthumula Ashok Reddy 113 Kanigiri Mukku Ugra Narasimha Reddy Nellore 114 Kavali Dagumati Venkata Krishna Reddy 115 Atmakur Anam Ramanarayana Reddy Minister of Endowments 116 Kovur Vemireddy Prashanti Reddy 117 Nellore City Ponguru Narayana Minister of Urban Development & Municipal Administration 118 Nellore Rural Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy 119 Sarvepalli Somireddy Chandra Mohan Reddy Tirupati 120 Gudur (SC)Pasam Sunil Kumar 121 Sullurpeta (SC)Nelavala Vijayasree 122 Venkatagiri Kurugondla Ramakrishna Nellore 123 Udayagiri Kakarla Suresh YSR Kadapa 124 Badvel (SC)Dasari Sudha YSRCP Annamayya 125 Rajampet Akepati Amarnath Reddy YSR Kadapa 126 Kadapa Reddeppagari Madhavi TDP Whip Annamayya 127 Kodur (SC)Arava Sreedhar JSP Whip 128 Rayachoti Mandipalli Ramprasad Reddy TDP Minister of Transport ,Youth & Sports YSR Kadapa 129 Pulivendula Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy YSRCP President of YSR Congress Party YSRCP Floor Leader130 Kamalapuram Putha Krishna Chaitanya Reddy TDP 131 Jammalamadugu Ch. Adinarayana Reddy BJP BJP Whip 132 Proddatur Nandyala Varada Rajula Reddy TDP 133 Mydukur Putta Sudhakar Yadav Nandyal 134 Allagadda Bhuma Akhila Priya 135 Srisailam Budda Rajasekhar Reddy 136 Nandikotkur (SC)Githa Jayasurya Kurnool 137 Kurnool T. G. Bharath Minister of Industries & Commerce ,Food Processing 138 Panyam Gowru Charitha Reddy Nandyal 139 Nandyal N. M. D. Farooq Minister of Minority Welfare ,Law & Justice 140 Banaganapalle B. C. Janardhan Reddy Minister of Roads & Buildings ,Infrastructure & Investments 141 Dhone Kotla Jayasurya Prakasha Reddy Kurnool 142 Pattikonda K. E. Shyam Babu 143 Kodumur (SC)Boggula Dastagiri 144 Yemmiganur Jaya Nageswara Reddy 145 Mantralayam Y. Balanagi Reddy YSRCP 146 Adoni P. V. Parthasarathi BJP 147 Alur Busine Virupakshi YSRCP Ananthapuramu 148 Rayadurg Kalava Srinivasulu TDP Whip 149 Uravakonda Payyavula Keshav Minister of Finance, Planning ,Commercial Taxes &Legislative Affairs 150 Guntakal Gummanur Jayaram 151 Tadipatri J. C. Ashmit Reddy 152 Singanamala (SC)Bandaru Sravani Sree 153 Anantapur Urban Daggupati Venkateswara Prasad 154 Kalyandurg Amilineni Surendra Babu 155 Raptadu Paritala Sunitha Sri Sathya Sai 156 Madakasira (SC)M. S. Raju 157 Hindupur Nandamuri Balakrishna 158 Penukonda S. Savitha Minister of B.C. Welfare ,Economically Weaker Sections Welfare, Handlooms & Textiles 159 Puttaparthi Palle Sindhura Reddy 160 Dharmavaram Satya Kumar Yadav BJP Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Medical Education 161 Kadiri Kandikunta Venkata Prasad TDP Annamayya 162 Thamballapalle Peddireddy Dwarakanatha Reddy YSRCP 163 Pileru Nallari Kishore Kumar Reddy TDP 164 Madanapalle Shahjahan Basha Chittoor 165 Punganur Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy YSRCP Tirupati 166 Chandragiri Pulivarthi Venkata Mani Prasad TDP 167 Tirupati Arani Srinivasulu JSP 168 Srikalahasti Bojjala Venkata Sudhir Reddy TDP 169 Satyavedu (SC)Koneti Adimulam Chittoor 170 Nagari Gali Bhanu Prakash 171 Gangadhara Nellore (SC)V. M. Thomas Whip 172 Chittoor Gurajala Jagan Mohan 173 Puthalapattu (SC)Kalikiri Murali Mohan 174 Palamaner N. Amarnath Reddy 175 Kuppam N. Chandrababu Naidu
^ No party secured 10% of seats to form official opposition. ^ Telangana Rashtra Samithi bagged 26 seats as part of theUnited Progressive Alliance ^ did not contest and extended its support to theNational Democratic Alliance ^ No official opposition because no political party obtained at least 10% of the seats in the following assembly election
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