Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

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The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Maharashtra, responsible for making state laws and overseeing the state government.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Lower house
State legislative assembly
budgetaryFunction Passes the state budget
Votes on demands for grants
canDissolve Yes
confidenceFunction Can express confidence in the state government
Can express no-confidence in the state government
constitutionalBasis Constitution of India
country India
dissolutionBy Governor of Maharashtra
electorateType Directly elected
elects Members of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (indirectly, for some seats)
establishedUnder States Reorganisation and related legislation following creation of Maharashtra state
executiveAccountability Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Assembly
fullFormOfMLA Member of Legislative Assembly
governingRules Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
hasDeputySpeaker Yes
hasLeaderOfTheHouse Yes
hasLeaderOfTheOpposition Yes
hasSpeaker Yes
houseType Lower house
isBicameralLegislatureComponent Yes
jurisdiction Maharashtra
surface form: State of Maharashtra
languageOfProceedings English
Marathi language
surface form: Marathi
legislatureOf Maharashtra
location Mumbai
meetsAt Vidhan Bhavan, Mumbai
surface form: Maharashtra Vidhan Bhavan, Mumbai
meetsIn Vidhan Bhavan, Mumbai
numberOfHousesInLegislature 2
otherHouse Maharashtra Legislative Council
oversightFunction Committee scrutiny of government work
Debates on government policies
Questions to the state government
partOf Maharashtra Legislative Assembly self-linksurface differs
surface form: Maharashtra Legislature
power State law-making on Concurrent List subjects
State law-making on State List subjects
predecessor Bombay Legislative Assembly
surface form: Bombay Legislative Assembly (for the Bombay State region prior to formation of Maharashtra)
responsibility Making state laws
Overseeing the state government
seat Mumbai
sessionType Budget session
Monsoon session
Winter session
state Maharashtra
termLength 5 years
typeOfMembers MLAs
votingSystem First-past-the-post

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Maharashtra hasLegislature Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Bombay Legislative Assembly followedBy Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly partOf Maharashtra Legislative Assembly self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Maharashtra Legislature
Eknath Shinde electedTo Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Maharashtra Legislative Council lowerHouse Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Maharashtra Legislative Council isUpperHouseOf Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) legislativeActivity Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Vidarbha region legislativeRepresentation Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
subject surface form: Vidarbha
Pratibha Patil legislativeBody Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Samudrapur taluka hasLegislativeJurisdiction Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Government of Maharashtra legislativeBody Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Nanded Lok Sabha constituency stateLegislature Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Ahmednagar district legislativeAssemblyState Maharashtra Legislative Assembly