Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar

The Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar, also known as the Sixteenth Vidhan Sabha of Bihar or the 16th Bihar Assembly, was the state legislature formed following the Bihar Legislative Assembly election held from 12 October to 5 November 2015. It was formally constituted on 20 November 2015. The assembly comprised 243 elected members representing Bihar's legislative constituencies. As Bihar's unicameral legislative chamber, the assembly served as the state's principal elected institution for making laws within the constitutional and statutory fields assigned to the state, approving public expenditure, debating government policy, and holding the executive accountable. Its work was conducted through plenary sittings, legislative committees, questions, motions, debates, and consideration of bills and budgetary demands. The assembly was a political institution rather than a commercial brand. Its identity derives from its sequence in Bihar's legislative history and from the electoral mandate produced by the 2015 state election. The legislature represented the state as a whole through members elected from 243 constituencies. The available reference material establishes its formation date, electoral origin, and membership size, but does not provide sufficient information to document individual officeholders, party composition, legislative achievements, campaigns, controversies, or its precise dissolution date. Those details are therefore left unspecified rather than inferred.

The Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar was created through the Bihar Legislative Assembly election of 2015. Voting took place in several phases between 12 October and 5 November 2015. Once the electoral process had concluded, the assembly was constituted on 20 November 2015. The institution consisted of 243 members, corresponding to Bihar's legislative constituencies. In Bihar's unicameral state-government system, the assembly performs the representative and legislative functions assigned to a state legislature under India's constitutional framework. Its responsibilities include debating and passing legislation within state competence, examining taxation and expenditure proposals, approving the state budget, raising questions about administrative decisions, and using committees and other parliamentary procedures to scrutinize government activity. The assembly's designation as the sixteenth reflects its place in the succession of Bihar's legislative assemblies. Its membership and political balance were determined by the 2015 election rather than by appointment as a single body. The supplied reference material does not identify the assembly's speaker, chief minister, party distribution, individual members, major bills, committee work, or later dissolution or replacement. Consequently, those elements cannot be stated reliably in this dossier.

• 2015

  Bihar Legislative Assembly election

  [1]16th Bihar Assemblyen.wikipedia.org

  Bihar held its legislative assembly election in multiple phases from 12 October to 5 November 2015, producing the membership of the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly.

• 2015

  Assembly constituted

  [1]16th Bihar Assemblyen.wikipedia.org

  The Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar was formally constituted on 20 November 2015 with 243 members representing the state's legislative constituencies.

Bihar's elected unicameral state legislature for the 2015 assembly term.

1. 116th Bihar Assemblyen.wikipedia.org