Uttar Pradesh Legislature
A commemorative postage stamp on the 125 years of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (U.P. Vidhan Sabha), bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh :
Issued by India
Issued on Jan 8, 2013
Issued for : Department of Posts is happy to commemorate the 125 years of Uttar Pradesh legislature by issuing a Commemorative Postage Stamp.
Credits :
Stamp/FDC/Cancellation : Alka Sharma
Type : Stamp, Mint Condition
Colour : Multi colour
Denomination : 500 Paise
Stamps Printed : 0.41 Million (0.1 million for the proponent)
Printing Process : Wet Offset
Printer : India Security Press, Nasik
About :
- The history of Uttar Pradesh legislature goes back to the British Era. In 1861, the Indian Councils Act was passed for the first time under which Indians were associated with the business of legislation. Under this Act, the Governor General was empowered to create provincial councils for North Western Province, Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh) and Punjab, and to create new provinces and appoint Lt-Governors for them.
- For North Western Province and Oudh, nine members were nominated, of whom three were non-official. The council could consider legislative matters placed before them by the Government. The first meeting of the Legislative Council of Oudh was held at the Thornhill Memorial, Allahabad on Saturday, January 8, 1887 with the Lt. Governor presiding. The state legislature has thus completed 125 years on January 8, 2012.
- The name ‘Uttar Pradesh‘ was given to the state after independence on 12th January, 1950, before which it was called ‘United Province‘. The year 1952 marked a watershed year in the history of democratic India, when the first General Elections of independent India were held and millions of people went to the polls to exercise the democratic right granted to them by the Constitution of India to choose the country’s legislators. Since then, Uttar Pradesh legislature has been constituted sixteen times. Currently the 16th Vidhan Sabha is in existence in Uttar Pradesh.
- Uttar Pradesh has a bicameral legislature – a Legislative Assembly and a Legislative Council. Uttar Pradesh was reorganised in November, 2000 through an Act of the Central Government, the successor state is known as Uttarakhand, comprising 13 districts of northern Himalayan region. Before reorganisation of the state of Uttar Pradesh, the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly consisted of 425 elected and 1 Anglo-Indian nominated members. At present the Uttar Pradesh legislature consists of 404 members in Vidhan Sabha and 100 members in the Legislative Council.
- Uttar Pradesh with the largest state legislature and largest number of Lok Sabha members has always played a momentous role in the Indian political arena. The State has the distinction of giving eight Prime Ministers to the country starting with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
- Text : Based on the material provided by the proponent.
[…] Shri Ram Sewak Yadav held several important posts like, Member, District Executive, Praja Socialist Party 1952 onwards, Joint Secretary, PSP 1952-54, and Socialist Party, Bara Banki District, 1955-56, General Secretary, All India Samyukta Socialist Party. He was a Member of Parliament successively for the 2nd, 3rd & 4th Lok Sabhas, was also Chairman Public Accounts Committee, Leader of the opposition and also member, U.P. Vidhan Sabha. […]
[…] Acharya was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in 1938, and again in 1946. He was a member of the Legislative Council, Uttar Pradesh, in 1952-54 […]
[…] worked for long years as the speaker of the Legislative assembly of U.P. He was also elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946, to the Lok Sabha in 1952 and to […]
[…] fight for freedom and was imprisoned as many as seven times. In 1946, he was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister. Subsequently, he was appointed […]
[…] Raj Narain had a long and distinguished political career. He was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for two terms, from 1952 to 1962. He was the first ‘Leader of Opposition’ of Uttar Pradesh […]
[…] independence of the country in 1947, he was elected unopposed to the State Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Thereafter, he was elected to the State Assembly several times during which he […]
[…] Congress Committee. In 1937 and 1938, he was elected from Baghpat Ghaziabad Constituency to UP Vidhan Sabha. He was imprisoned in 1930 for six months during the ‘Namak Satyagraha’, and again for […]
[…] non-cooperation and plunged into active politics in the early twenties. He became a Member of the U.P. Legislative Council in 1923 and was elected President of the U.P. Congress Committee in 1927. A year later he was […]
[…] He joined the Indian National Congress in 1920, and made his headquarters in the Gorakhpur District of Uttar Pradesh where he worked for the political, moral, social and educational uplift of the people. Though a religious ascetic, he held progressive ideas about social and educational reforms. His active and dedicated participation in the National movement raised him to the presidency of the Gorakhpur District Congress Committee. He courted arrest on various occasions like the protest march against Jalianwala Bagh Massacre in 1921, in connection with the Chauri Chaura incident in 1922 and the agitation against the Simon Commission in 1927. He actively participated in the Salt Satyagraha of 1930 also. In 1934 Baba Raghavdas effectively organised assistance for alleviating the miseries caused by earthquake and floods in Bihar. In 1946 he was elected to the Vidhan sabha. […]