Madhya Pradesh Quiz: Governor, Chief Minister and Vidhan Sabha of MP

The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly returns 230 members from single-member territorial constituencies, of which thirty-five are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and forty-seven for the Scheduled Tribes.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act of 2003, says the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister in a state shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of its Legislative Assembly, and shall not be fewer than twelve.

The Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2000 created Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000, and ninety of the 320 constituencies of the undivided Madhya Pradesh Assembly fell within the new state and became its Legislative Assembly.

He became Chief Minister when the reorganised state of Madhya Pradesh came into being on 1 November 1956, having already headed the government of the earlier Central Provinces and Berar, and he died in office in December 1956, only weeks into the new state.

Article 159 requires the Governor, before entering upon his office, to make and subscribe an oath before the Chief Justice of the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the state, or in his absence before the senior-most judge of that court available.

Madhya Pradesh has a unicameral legislature: under Article 168 the legislature of the state consists of the Governor and a single House, the Vidhan Sabha.

It allowed the Governor of a state to nominate one member of the Anglo-Indian community to the Legislative Assembly if he was of opinion that the community needed representation and was not adequately represented in it.

The Constitution (One Hundred and Fourth Amendment) Act of 2019 amended Article 334 so that the nomination of Anglo-Indian members to the Lok Sabha and to the State Legislative Assemblies came to an end on 25 January 2020, while extending the reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and the…

The States Reorganisation Act came into force on that day and created Madhya Pradesh by merging the old Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh and Bhopal, with Bhopal as the capital of the new state.

She was sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in December 2003 after the Assembly election of that year and is the first woman to have held the office in the state.

The Vidhan Bhavan at Bhopal, which houses the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, was designed by Charles Correa, among the best known Indian architects of the twentieth century, whose work drew on courtyards, open-to-sky spaces and traditional Indian planning.

Madhya Pradesh elects twenty-nine members to the Lok Sabha and has eleven seats in the Rajya Sabha.