Ashok Nagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Ashok Nagar Vidhan Sabha constituency (Hindi: अशोक नगर विधान सभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes since 2008, following the delimitation of the Legislative Assembly constituencies.[1] It came into existence in 1957, as one of the Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state.[2]
Overview
Ashok Nagar (constituency number 32) is one of the 3 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Ashok Nagar district. This constituency presently covers the entire Ashok Nagar tehsil of the district.[3]
Ashok Nagar is part of Guna Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Chanderi and Mungaoli in this district, Bamori and in Guna in Guna district, Shivpuri, Pichhore and Kolaras in Shivpuri district.[3]
Members of Legislative Assembly
As a double member constituency:
- 1957: Ram Dayal Singh, Indian National Congress / Dulichand, Indian National Congress
As a single member constituency:
- 1962: Ram Dayal Singh, Indian National Congress
- 1967: Multanmal, Swatantra Party
- 1972: Mahendra Singh, Bharatiya Jana Sangh
- 1977: Chiman Lal Guljarilal, Janata Party
- 1980: Mahender Singh, Indian National Congress (I)
- 1985: Ravindra Singh, Indian National Congress
- 1990: Neelam Singh Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 1993: Neelam Singh Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 1998: Balveer Singh Kushawah, Bahujan Samaj Party
- 2003: Jagannath Singh Raghuwanshi, Bharatiya Janata Party
- 2008: Ladduram Kori, Bharatiya Janata Party[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "District/Assembly List". Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1957 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. p. 4.
- 1 2 "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 229, 250.
- ↑ "Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha General Elections - 2008 (in Hindi)" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh website. Retrieved 14 February 2011.