MLC Election Results | MLC चुनाव में आपने वोट दिया? | MLC Election Process | Munish Devgan

This time you must have heard a lot of noise about the MLC elections. There was a lot of discussion about these elections. But do you know how these elections are different from MLA elections and how MLCs are elected? Like there are two houses of Parliament. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Similarly, there can be

two houses of legislature in the states. Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. All the voters of the state participate in the assembly elections and elect an MLA or MLA from their area. These are called direct elections. But the election of a member of the Legislative Council is a little different from this. At present, there is

Legislative Council only in six states of our country. Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The number of members in the Legislative Council is fixed. For example, the Legislative Council should not have more than 1/3 members of the Legislative Assembly. Apart from this, there is another clause in the Constitution. There must

be at least 40 members in the Legislative Council. Here a question may arise in your mind that why is this system only in six states? Why not in every state? So it depends on the states whether they want to have Legislative Council or not. Secondly, the condition of minimum 40 seats may also come in the way of some states.

Like Chhattisgarh where there are 90 seats in the assembly. 1/3 is 30 members. But according to the Constitution, 40 members are required in the Legislative Council. Therefore, Legislative Council cannot be formed in Chhattisgarh. The tenure of MLC i.e. members of Legislative Council is for six years and after every 2 years 1/3 members retire. Now let us