The Leader of the Opposition in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly is the politician who leads the official opposition in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly. The current Leader of the Opposition is R. Siva.[1]
The tenure of different leaders of opposition of Puducherry Representative Assembly is given below
No. | Portrait | Name
(Birth–Death) |
Elected constituency | Term of office[2] | Assembly (Election) |
Political party[a] | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
1 | ![]() |
V. Kailassa Soubaya (1911–1993) |
Murungapakkam-Nainar Mandapam | 17 August 1955 | 24 October 1958 | 1st (1955 election) |
People's Front | ||
September 1959 | 30 June 1963 | 2nd (1959 election) |
The tenure of different leaders of opposition of Puducherry Legislative Assembly is given below[3]
No. | Portrait | Name
(Birth–Death) |
Elected constituency | Term of office[2] | Assembly (Election) |
Political party[a] | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||||||
1 | ![]() |
V. Kailassa Soubaya (1911–1993) |
Murungapakkam | 1 July 1963 | 24 August 1964 | 1st (1959 election) |
People's Front | |||||
Mudaliarpet | 29 August 1964 | 17 September 1968 | 2nd (1964 election) | |||||||||
2 | ![]() |
P. Shanmugam (1927–2013) |
N.A. | 17 March 1969 | 2 January 1974 | 3rd (1968 election) |
Indian National Congress | |||||
3 | ![]() |
Dana Kantharaj | Raj Bhavan | 6 March 1974 | 27 March 1974 | 4th (1974 election) |
Indian National Congress | |||||
4 | ![]() |
P. Ansari Doraisamy (c.1917–N.A.) |
Cassicade | 2 July 1977 | 11 November 1978 | 5th (1977 election) |
Janata Party | |||||
5 | ![]() |
P. Uthiravelu | Bahour | 16 January 1980 | 23 November 1983 | 6th (1980 election) |
Congress (Indira) | |||||
6 | ![]() |
P. K. Loganathan (1938–2013) |
Oupalam | 16 March 1985 | 4 March 1990 | 4 years, 353 days | 7th (1985 election) |
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | ||||
7 | ![]() |
M.O.H. Farook | Lawspet | 5 March 1990 | 3 March 1991 | 8th (1990 election) |
Indian National Congress | |||||
8 | ![]() |
V. M. C. V. Ganapathy (1960–) |
Neravy T. R. Pattinam | 4 July 1991 | 13 May 1996 | 4 years, 314 days | 9th (1991 election) |
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | ||||
9 | ![]() |
V. Vaithilingam | Nettapakkam | 14 May 1996 | 21 March 2000 | 10th (1996 election) |
Indian National Congress | |||||
10 | ![]() |
R.V. Janakiraman | Nellithope | 22 March 2000 | 15 May 2001 | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 16 May 2001 | 11 May 2006 | 11th (2001 election) | |||
11 | ![]() |
A. M. H. Nazeem | Karaikal | 29 May 2006 | May 2011 | 12th (2006 election) | ||||||
(9) | ![]() |
V. Vaithilingam | Kamaraj Nagar | 17 August 2011[4] | 2016 | 13th (2011 election) |
Indian National Congress | |||||
12 | ![]() |
N. Rangasamy | Indira Nagar | 22 August 2016[5] | 22 February 2021 | 14th (2016 election) |
All India N.R. Congress | |||||
13 | ![]() |
R. Siva | Villianur | 8 May 2021[6] | Till date | 15th (2021 election) |
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |