Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council

For the lower house, see Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (Hindi: Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad) is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh, a state in India. Uttar Pradesh is one of the six states in India, where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses: the Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) and the Vidhan Parishad (Legislative Council). The Vidhan Parishad is a permanent House, consisting of 100 members.

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
Type
Type	Upper house of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature
Term limits	6 years
Leadership
Governor of Uttar Pradesh	Anandiben Patel since 29 July 2019
Chairman	Kunwar Manvendra Singh, BJP since 22 May 2022
Deputy Chairman	Vacant, BJP
Leader of the House	Keshav Prasad Maurya Deputy Chief Minister, BJP since 10 August 2022
Deputy Leader of the House	Vidya Sagar Sonkar, BJP since 22 February 2023
Leader of Opposition	Vacant
Deputy Leader of Opposition	Vacant
Principal Secretary	Dr Rajesh Singh, IAS
Structure
Seats	100 (90 Elected + 10 Nominated)
Political groups	Government (83) NDA (83)   BJP (81)   AD(S) (1)   NISHAD (1) Opposition (11)   SP (9)   BSP (1)   JSD(L) (1) Others (5)   IND (5) Vacant (1)   Vacant (1)
Elections
Last election	4 May 2023
Next election	2023
Meeting place
Vidhan Parishad Chamber, Vidhan Bhavan, VS Marg, Lucknow - 226 001
Website
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council

History

The Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad came into existence by the Government of India Act of 1935. The Legislative Council consisted of 60 members. The term of a member of the Council was six years with one-third of its members retiring after every two years. The Houses enjoyed the right of electing their Presiding Officers known as the President. The first meeting of the Legislative Council was held on 29 July 1937. Sir Sitaram and Begum Aijaz Rasul were elected the President and the Vice-President of the Legislative Council respectively. Sir Sitaram was in office until 9 March 1949. Chandra Bhal became the next Chairman on 10 March 1949.

After the independence and adoption of the constitution on 26 January 1950 Chandra Bhal was re-elected the Chairman of the Legislative Council and served until 5 May 1958. Sri Nizamuddin was elected the Deputy Chairman of the Council on 27 May 1952. He served until 1964.

Nominations and election

When, under the provisions of the Government of India Act 1935, the Legislative Council came into existence in the United Provinces, it comprised 60 members. On 26 January 1950, the total membership of the Vidhan Parishad (legislative council) of Uttar Pradesh state was increased from 60 to 72. With the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act 1956, the strength of the Council was enhanced to 108. After the reorganization of Uttar Pradesh state in November 2000 and the creation of Uttarakhand state, this strength has now reduced to 100.

Composition of Legislative Council

The present composition of the Vidhan Parishad is as follows: Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad (Legislative Council) has 100 Members (MLC).^[1]

• 38 members are elected by the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly members (MLA).
• 36 members are elected by local authorities.
• 8 members are elected by graduates.
• 8 members are elected by teachers.
• 10 members are nominated by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.

Party Composition

Alliance		Party		No. of MLC's	Leader of the Party in Council
	National Democratic Alliance Seats: 84		BJP	82	Keshav Prasad Maurya
			AD(S)	1	Ashish Singh Patel
			NISHAD	1	Sanjay Nishad
Others Seats: 16			SP	9	Lal Bihari Yadav
			JSD(L)	1	Akshay Pratap Singh
			BSP	1	Bhimrao Ambedkar
			IND	5	–
Total Number of MLC's				100

Term

Members are now elected or nominated for six years and one-third of them retire on the expiration of every second year, so a member continues as such for six years. The vacant seats are filled up by fresh elections and nominations (by Governor) at the beginning of every third year. The retiring members are also eligible for re-election and re-nomination any number of times. The Presiding Officers of Vidhan Parishad are Chairman and Deputy Chairman. Kunwar Manvendra Singh is the current Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Councils.

Constituencies and members (100)

See here the List of members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council

The following are the constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad:^[2]

Elected by Legislative Assembly (38)

Keys:   BJP (29)   SP (6)   BSP (1)   AD(S) (1)   Vacant (1)

#	Member	Party		Term Start	Term End
1	Keshav Prasad Maurya		BJP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
2	Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh		BJP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
3	Daya Shankar Mishra		BJP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
4	Jayendra Pratap Singh Rathore		BJP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
5	Jaswant Saini		BJP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
6	Danish Azad Ansari		BJP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
7	Narendra Kumar Kashyap		BJP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
8	Padamsen Chaudhary		BJP	29-May-2023	05-Jul-2028
9	Mukesh Sharma		BJP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
10	Dharmendra Senthwar		BJP	11-Aug-2022	30-Jan-2027
11	Swatantra Dev Singh		BJP	31-Jan-2021	30-Jan-2027
12	Manvendra Singh Chauhan		BJP	29-May-2023	30-Jan-2027
13	A. K. Sharma		BJP	31-Jan-2021	30-Jan-2027
14	Kunwar Manvendra Singh		BJP	31-Jan-2021	30-Jan-2027
15	Govind Narayan Shukla		BJP	31-Jan-2021	30-Jan-2027
16	Salil Vishnoi		BJP	31-Jan-2021	30-Jan-2027
17	Ashwani Tyagi		BJP	31-Jan-2021	30-Jan-2027
18	Dharmveer Prajapati		BJP	31-Jan-2021	30-Jan-2027
19	Surendra Choudhary		BJP	31-Jan-2021	30-Jan-2027
20	Nirmala Paswan		BJP	11-Aug-2022	05-May-2024
21	Vidya Sagar Sonkar		BJP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
22	Sarojini Agarwal		BJP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
23	Ashok Kataria		BJP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
24	Bukkal Nawab		BJP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
25	Vijay Bahadur Pathak		BJP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
26	Ashok Dhawan		BJP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
27	Mohsin Raza		BJP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
28	Mahendra Kumar Singh		BJP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
29	Yashwant Singh		BJP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
30	Swami Prasad Maurya		SP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
31	Mukul Yadav		SP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
32	Mohammad Jasmir Ansari		SP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
33	Shahnawaz Khan		SP	06-Jul-2022	05-Jul-2028
34	Rajendra Chaudhary		SP	31-Jan-2021	30-Jan-2027
35	Naresh Chandra Uttam		SP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
36	Ashish Singh Patel		AD(S)	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
37	Bhimrao Ambedkar		BSP	06-May-2018	05-May-2024
38	Vacant Since 9-Sep-2023				30-Jan-2027

Elected by Local Authority Constituencies (36)

Keys:   BJP (33)   Independent (2)   JSD(L) (1)

#	Constituency	Member	Party		Term Start	Term End
1	Raebareli	Dinesh Pratap Singh		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
2	Jaunpur	Brijesh Singh		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
3	Muzaffarnagar- Saharanpur	Vandana Verma		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
4	Moradabad–Bijnor	Satyapal Singh Saini		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
5	Rampur–Bareilly	Kunwar Maharaj Singh		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
6	Pilibhit–Shahjahanpur	Sudhir Gupta		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
7	Hardoi	Ashok Agrawal		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
8	Lakhimpur–Kheri	Anoop Kumar Gupta		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
9	Sitapur	Pawan Singh Chauhan		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
10	Lucknow–Unnao	Ram Chandra Pradhan		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
11	Pratapgarh	Akshay Pratap Singh		JSD(L)	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
12	Sultanpur	Shailendra Pratap Singh		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
13	Barabanki	Angad Singh		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
14	Bahraich	Pragya Tripathi		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
15	Gonda	Awadhesh Kumar Singh		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
16	Faizabad	Hariom Pandey		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
17	Basti–Siddharth Nagar	Subhash Yaduvansh		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
18	Gorakhpur–Maharajganj	CP Chand		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
19	Deoria	Dr. Ratanpal Singh		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
20	Azamgarh–Mau	Vikrant Singh "Rishu"		IND	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
21	Ballia	Ravishanker Singh alias Pappu		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
22	Mirzapur–Sonbhadra	Shyam Narayan Singh alias Vineet		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
23	Allahabad	Dr KP Srivastav		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
24	Banda–Hamirpur	Jitendra Singh Sengar		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
25	Jhansi–Jalaun–Lalitpur	Rama Niranjan		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
26	Kanpur–Fatehpur	Avinash Singh Chauhan		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
27	Etawah–Farrukhabad	Pranshu Dutt Dwivedi		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
28	Agra–Firozabad	Vijay Shivhare		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
29	Mathura–Etah–Mainpuri	Ashish Yadav Ashu		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
30		Om Prakash Singh		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
31	Aligarh-Hathras	Chaudhary Rishipal Singh		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
32	Bulandshahar-Noida	Narendra Bhati		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
33	Meerut–Ghaziabad	Dharmendra Bhardwaj		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
34	Ghazipur	Vishal Singh Chanchal		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
35	Varanasi	Annapurna Singh		IND	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028
36	Badaun	Vagish Pathak		BJP	12-Apr-2022	11-Apr-2028

Elected from Graduate Constituencies (8)

Keys:   BJP (6)   SP (2)

#	Constituency	Member	Party		Term Start	Term End
1	Bareilly–Moradabad	Dr. Jai Pal Singh		BJP	Feb-2023	Feb-2029
2	Gorakhpur–Faizabad	Devendra Pratap Singh		BJP	Feb-2023	Feb-2029
3	Kanpur	Arun Pathak		BJP	Feb-2023	Feb-2029
4	Agra	Dr. Manvendra Pratap Singh		BJP	Dec-2020	Dec-2026
5	Meerut	Dinesh Kumar Goel		BJP	Dec-2020	Dec-2026
6	Lucknow	Awanish Kumar Singh		BJP	Dec-2020	Dec-2026
7	Varanasi	Ashutosh Sinha		SP	Dec-2020	Dec-2026
8	Allahabad–Jhansi	Dr Man Singh Yadav		SP	Dec-2020	Dec-2026

Elected from Teacher Constituencies (8)

Keys:   BJP (4)   Independent (3)   SP (1)

#	Constituency	Member	Party		Term Start	Term End
1	Kanpur	Raj Bahadur Singh Chandel		IND	Feb-2023	Feb-2029
2	Allahabad–Jhansi	Babu Lal Tiwari		BJP	Feb-2023	Feb-2029
3	Bareilly–Moradabad	Hari Singh Dhillon		BJP	Dec-2020	Dec-2026
4	Lucknow	Umesh Dwivedi		BJP	Dec-2020	Dec-2026
5	Varanasi	Lal Bihari Yadav		SP	Dec-2020	Dec-2026
6	Meerut	Shri Chand Sharma		BJP	Dec-2020	Dec-2026
7	Agra	Akash Agarwal		IND	Dec-2020	Dec-2026
8	Gorakhpur–Faizabad	Dhruv Kumar Tripathi		IND	Dec-2020	Dec-2026

Nominated by Governor (10)

Keys:   BJP (9)   NP (1)

#	Member	Party		Term Start	Term End
1	Jitin Prasada		BJP	01-Oct 2021	30-Sep-2027
2	Gopal Anjan Bhurji		BJP	01-Oct 2021	30-Sep-2027
3	Choudhary Virender Singh		BJP	01-Oct 2021	30-Sep-2027
4	Sanjay Nishad		NP	01-Oct 2021	30-Sep-2027
5	Rajnikant Maheshwari		BJP	03-Apr-2023	02-Apr-2029
6	Saket Misra		BJP	03-Apr-2023	02-Apr-2029
7	Ram Subhag Rajbhar		BJP	03-Apr-2023	02-Apr-2029
8	Hans Raj Vishwakarma		BJP	03-Apr-2023	02-Apr-2029
9	Tariq Mansoor		BJP	03-Apr-2023	02-Apr-2029
10	Lal ji Prasad		BJP	03-Apr-2023	02-Apr-2029

See also

• Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Notes

References

1. "Constitutional Setup". Government of UP. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
2. . Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2009.

https://up.gov.in/en/page/constitutional-setup#:~:text=Under%20the%20Constitution%20of%20India,Vidhan%20Parishad%20having%20100%20members.

External links

• Government of Uttar Pradesh official website