The second Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttar Pradesh in 1957. The Indian National Congress won a comfortable margin with 286 of the 430 Vidhan Sabha seats, although it was less of a majority than in the previous election in 1951.
The Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held on 25 February 1957. 1711 candidates contested for the 430 constituencies in the Assembly. There were 89 two-member constituencies and 252 single-member constituencies.
Important members Sampurnanand was the second Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He succeeded Govind Ballabh Pant of his party and served as a Chief Minister from 1954 to 1960. In 1960, due to a political crisis initiated by Kamlapati Tripathi and Chandra Bhanu Gupta, Sampurnanand was asked to quit the post of Chief Minister and was sent to Rajasthan as the Governor. Chandra Bhanu Gupta ably assisted by his colleague Nirmal Chandra Chaturvedi, MLC was able to convince senior party leaders like Nehru, Pant and Kidwai that shifting of Sampurnanand was the need of the hour.
Pandit Dev Narayan ‘Bhartiya’, the First Revolutionist of the North India, from the Constituency, Jamaur Shahjahanpur(U.P.) was the Member of the Second Legislative Assembly (U.P.) from 1957 to 1962 and raised the most questions in the Assembly's Proceedings. Another fact about him is that he did not let any Congress Candidate win nearby his constituency, thus four seats (Jamaur, Tilhar, Khera Bajehra, Jalalabad) were secured by Ram Manohar Lohia's Socialist Party, under the guidance of Pandit Dev Narayan 'Bhartiya'. Following were also the important members of the Second Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh.
# From To Position Name Party 01 1957 1960 Chief Minister Sampurnanand Indian National Congress 02 1960 1962 Chandra Bhanu Gupta 03 1957 1962 Speaker of the Assembly Atmaram Govind Kher 04 Deputy Speaker Ramnarayan Tripathi 05 Leader of the Opposition Triloki Singh Praja Socialist Party 06 1953 1959 Finance minister Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim Indian National Congress 07 1959 1961 Syed Ali Zaheer 08 1961 1963 Har Govind Singh 09 1957 1960 Minister of Parliamentary Affairs S. Ali Zaheer Indian National Congress 10 1961 1962 Mangala Prasad 11 1957 1962 Principal Secretary D. N. Mithal -
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