The fifth Chhattisgarh State Assembly will have a unique combination of senior-most members and new members in the 90-member House.
A total of 39 members of Legislative Assembly are first timers. This time, the members comprise as more educated MLAs as compared to last assembly (2013).
As per information received, in year 2013, the number of post graduate MLAs were 31 and in year 2018 it has increased to 34. A total of 13 professional graduates while nine are doctors.
There are three MBBS, four BAMS while three are holders of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
Similarly, six MLAs are advocates and four MLAs are engineers.
Out of the 90 MLAs, Dr Renu Jogi (Kota), Dr Preetam Ram (Lundra) and Dr Vinay Jaiswal (Manendragarh) are MBBS doctors, Dr Raman Singh (Rajnandgaon), Dr Krishnamurti Bandhi (Masturi), Dr Shiv Dahariya (Arang) and Dr Premsai Singh Tekam (Pratappur) are BAMS doctor. Ph.D MLAs are Dr Charandas Mahant (Sakti), Dr Rashmi Ashish Singh (Takhatpur) and Dr Laxmi Dhruv (Sihawa).
Amitesh Shukla (Rajim), Ravindra Choubey (Saja), Rashmi Singh, Kismat Lal Nand (Saraipali), Dharamlal Kaushik (Bilha) and Nankiram Kanwar (Rampur) are laywers. Similarly, engineers are Ajit Jogi (Marwahi), Shailesh Pandey (Bilaspur), Umesh Patel (Kharsia) and U D Minj (Kunkuri).