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{{short description|Leaders of Official Opposition in state legislatures}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{For|definition|Leader of the Opposition (India)}} The official opposition in India includes the [[Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha]], the [[Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha]] and the current opposition leaders in the [[State legislative councils of India|legislative councils]] and [[State legislative assemblies of India|legislative assemblies]] of the [[States and union territories of India|Indian states and union territories]]. Bhupendra Hooda & Rabri Devi are longest serving. Five incumbents belong to the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and nine to the [[Indian National Congress]], No other party has more than one opposition leader in office. At present seven states's assembly and one state's council is under Vacancy.

==Parliament of India==
This is the list of current [[Leader of the Opposition (India)|opposition leaders]] in the [[Parliament of India]]:
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|Portrait
!rowspan=2|Name
!rowspan=2|Elected constituency
!colspan=3|Term of office
!rowspan=2 colspan=2|Political party
|-
!Assumed office
!Left office
!Time in office
|-
!colspan=8|[[Rajya Sabha|RAJYA SABHA]]
|-
|[[File:Mallikarjun Kharge briefing the media after presenting the Interim Railway Budget 2014-15 in New Delhi (cropped).jpg|107x107px]]
|[[Mallikarjun Kharge]]
|[[List of Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka|Karnataka]]
|16 February 2021
|''Incumbent''
|{{age in years and days|2021|02|16}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|{{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|-
!colspan=8|[[Lok Sabha|LOK SABHA]]
|-
|[[File:Rahul Gandhi.png|frameless|82x82px]]
|[[Rahul Gandhi]]
|[[Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency|Rae Bareli]]
|9 June 2024
|''Incumbent''
|{{age in years and days|2024|06|09}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|{{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|}

==Legislatures of the States and Union territories==
===State Legislative Councils===
This is the list of current opposition leaders in the [[State legislative councils of India|legislative councils]] of the [[States of India|Indian states]]:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! State
!Portrait
! Name
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Party
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council|Andhra Pradesh]]
|[[File:Botsa Satyanarayana.png|75x75px]]
| [[Botsa Satyanarayana]]
| [[YSR Congress Party]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|YSR Congress Party}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Bihar Legislative Council|Bihar]]
| [[File:Rabri Devi presenting a cheque for Rs. 10 crore on behalf of the State Government to the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh for the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund, in New Delhi on January 04, 2005 (cropped).jpg|94x94px]]
| [[Rabri Devi]]
| [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Rashtriya Janata Dal}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council|Karnataka]]
| [[File:Blank.svg|90x90px]]
| [[Chalavadi Narayanaswamy]]
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council|Maharashtra]]
|[[File:Blank.svg|90x90px]]
| colspan="4" |{{center|''Vacant {{small|(no opposition with at least 10% seats)}}''}}
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Telangana Legislative Council|Telangana]]
| [[File:Madhusudhanachary.jpg|113x113px]]
| [[S. Madhusudhana Chary]]
| [[Bharat Rashtra Samithi]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bharat Rashtra Samithi}}|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council|Uttar Pradesh]]
|
| [[Lal Bihari Yadav (Uttar Pradesh politician)|Lal Bihari Yadav]]
| [[Samajwadi Party]]
| style="background-color: {{party color| Samajwadi Party}}"|
|}

===State Legislative Assemblies===
[[File:Map of leaders of opposition in state legislative assemblies of India.png|thumb|Map shows the parties of the Leader of Opposition in States Legislative Assemblies of India]]
This is the list of current opposition leaders in the [[State legislative assemblies of India|legislative assemblies]] of the [[States and union territories of India|Indian states and union territories]]:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sansad.in/|title=Digital Sansad|website=Digital Sansad}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! State/UT
!Portrait
! Name
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Party
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Andhra Pradesh]]
|rowspan=2 colspan="4" |{{center|''Vacant {{small|(no opposition with at least 10% seats)}}''}}
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Arunachal Pradesh]]
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly|Assam]]
| [[File:Leader of the Opposition, Shri Debabrata Saikia in Prime Minister’s Office.jpg|75px]]
| [[Debabrata Saikia]]
| [[Indian National Congress]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|-
|[[List of leaders of the opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly|Bihar]]
| [[File:Tejaswi Yadav 2023.jpg|75px]]
| [[Tejashwi Yadav]]
| rowspan="1" |[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]
| rowspan="1" style="background-color: {{party color|Rashtriya Janata Dal}}" |
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly|Chhattisgarh]]
| [[File:Charan Das Mahant.jpg|100x100px]]
| [[Charan Das Mahant]]
| [[Indian National Congress]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Delhi Legislative Assembly|Delhi]]
| [[File:Atishi.jpg|75px]]
| [[Atishi]]
| rowspan="1" |[[Aam Aadmi Party]]
| rowspan="1" style="background-color: {{party color|Aam Aadmi Party}}" |
|-
|[[List of leaders of the opposition in the Goa Legislative Assembly|Goa]]
| [[File:Yuri Alemao during Chieftains Martyrs Day at Cuncolim.jpg|75px]]
| [[Yuri Alemao]]
| [[Indian National Congress]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly|Gujarat]]
| colspan="4" |{{center|''Vacant {{small|(no opposition with at least 10% seats)}}''}}
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Haryana Legislative Assembly|Haryana]]
| [[File:Bhupinder Singh Hooda in WEF, 2010.jpg|75 px]]
| [[Bhupinder Singh Hooda]]
| [[Indian National Congress]]
| style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Himachal Pradesh]]
| [[File:The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Shri Jai Ram Thakur calling on the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar, in New Delhi on September 06, 2018.JPG (1).jpg|90x90px]]
| [[Jai Ram Thakur]]
| rowspan="4" | [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly|Jammu and Kashmir]]
| [[File:Sunil Sharma.jpg|90x90px]]
| [[Sunil Kumar Sharma (Jammu and Kashmir)|Sunil Kumar Sharma]]
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly|Jharkhand]]
|
| [[Babulal Marandi]]
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly|Karnataka]]
| [[File:R. Ashoka.jpg|75px]]
| [[R. Ashoka]]
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly|Kerala]]
| [[File:VD SATHEESAN.jpg|75px]]
| [[V. D. Satheesan]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Indian National Congress]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Madhya Pradesh]]
| [[File:Umang Singhar.jpg|90x90px]]
|[[Umang Singhar]]
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly|Maharashtra]]
|rowspan="2" colspan="4" |{{center|''Vacant {{small|(no opposition with at least 10% seats)}}''}}
|-
|[[Manipur Legislative Assembly|Manipur]]
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly|Meghalaya]]
| [[File:Mukul Sangma 2014.jpg|75px]]
| |[[Mukul Sangma]]
| [[Trinamool Congress]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Trinamool Congress}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Mizoram Legislative Assembly|Mizoram]]
| [[File:Lalchhandama Ralte (cropped).jpg|75px]]
| [[Lalchhandama Ralte]]
| [[Mizo National Front]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Mizo National Front}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly|Nagaland]]
| colspan="4" |{{center|''Vacant {{small|(no opposition with at least 10% seats)}}''}}
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly|Odisha]]
| [[File:Naveen Patnaik.png|90x90px]]
| [[Naveen Patnaik]]
| [[Biju Janata Dal]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly|Puducherry]]
|[[File:Blank.svg|90x90px]]
| [[R. Siva]]
| [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| style="background-color: {{party color| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Punjab Legislative Assembly|Punjab]]
|[[File:Pratap Singh Bajwa.jpg|90x90px]]
| [[Partap Singh Bajwa]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Indian National Congress]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly|Rajasthan]]
| [[File:Tika Ram Jully.jpg|99x99px]]
|[[Tika Ram Jully]]
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly|Sikkim]]
| colspan="4" |{{center|''Vacant {{small|(no opposition with at least 10% seats)}}''}}
|-
|[[List of leaders of the opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly|Tamil Nadu]]
|[[File:Palanisamy.jpg|92x92px]]
|[[Edappadi K. Palaniswami]]
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
|{{party color cell|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Telangana Legislative Assembly|Telangana]]
| [[File:Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao.png|92x92px]]
| [[K. Chandrashekar Rao]]
| [[Bharat Rashtra Samithi]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bharat Rashtra Samithi}}|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Tripura Legislative Assembly|Tripura]]
| [[File:A delegation from Tripura led by Shri Jitendra Chaudhury, MP (Lok Sabha), calling on the Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on Thursday, November 24, 2016 (cropped).jpg|91x91px]]
| [[Jitendra Chaudhury]]
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly|Uttarakhand]]
|[[File:Yashpal Arya LOP Uttarakhand Assembly.jpg|75x75px]]
| [[Yashpal Arya]]
| [[Indian National Congress]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Uttar Pradesh]]
|
| [[Mata Prasad Pandey]]
| [[Samajwadi Party]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Samajwadi Party}}"|
|-
| [[List of leaders of the opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly|West Bengal]]
|[[File:Suvendu Adhikari at Esplanade Metro Rail Station, Kolkata, 6 March 2024.jpg|89x89px]]
| [[Suvendu Adhikari]]
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}"|
|}

==See also==
* [[List of current Indian governors]]
* [[List of current Indian lieutenant governors and administrators]]
* [[List of current Indian chief ministers]]
* [[List of current Indian deputy chief ministers]]
* [[List of current Indian chief justices]]
* [[List of current Indian legislative speakers and chairpersons]]
* [[List of current Indian ruling and opposition parties]]
* [[List of female opposition leaders in India]]
* [[Leader of the Opposition (India)]]
* [[Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha]]
* [[Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha]]

==References==
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{{Current Indian opposition leaders}}

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List of current Indian opposition leaders - Revision history

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