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 | Elected constituency | Term of office[2] | Assembly | Political party | |||
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Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
1 | V. Kailassa Soubaya (1911–1993) | Murungapakkam-Nainar Mandapam | 17 August 1955 | 24 October 1958 | 1st | People's Front | |||
September 1959 | 30 June 1963 | 2nd | |||||||
The tenure of different leaders of opposition of Puducherry Legislative Assembly is given below[3]
No. | Portrait | Name | Elected constituency | Term of office[4] | Assembly | Political party | ||||||
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Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||||||
1 | V. Kailassa Soubaya (1911–1993) | Murungapakkam | 1 July 1963 | 24 August 1964 | 1st | People's Front | ||||||
Mudaliarpet | 29 August 1964 | 17 September 1968 | 2nd | |||||||||
2 | P. Shanmugam (1927–2013) | N.A. | 17 March 1969 | 2 January 1974 | 3rd | Indian National Congress | ||||||
3 | Dana Kantharaj | Raj Bhavan | 6 March 1974 | 27 March 1974 | 4th | Indian National Congress | ||||||
4 | P. Ansari Doraisamy (c.1917–N.A.) | Cassicade | 2 July 1977 | 11 November 1978 | 5th | Janata Party | ||||||
5 | P. Uthiravelu | Bahour | 16 January 1980 | 23 November 1983 | 6th | Congress (Indira) | ||||||
6 | P. K. Loganathan (1938–2013) | Oupalam | 16 March 1985 | 4 March 1990 | 4 years, 353 days | 7th | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |||||
7 | M.O.H. Farook | Lawspet | 5 March 1990 | 3 March 1991 | 8th | 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 | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |||||
9 | V. Vaithilingam | Nettapakkam | 14 May 1996 | 21 March 2000 | 10th | Indian National Congress | ||||||
10 | R.V. Janakiraman | Nellithope | 22 March 2000 | 15 May 2001 | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 16 May 2001 | 11 May 2006 | 11th | ||||
11 | Karaikal | 29 May 2006 | May 2011 | 12th | ||||||||
(9) | V. Vaithilingam | Kamaraj Nagar | 17 August 2011[5] | 2016 | 13th | Indian National Congress | ||||||
12 | N. Rangasamy | Indira Nagar | 22 August 2016[6] | 22 February 2021 | 14th | All India N.R. Congress | ||||||
13 | R. Siva | Villianur | 8 May 2021[7] | Till date | 15th | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | ||||||