List of leaders of the opposition in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly

The leader of the opposition in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly is the politician who leads the official opposition in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly in India. The current leader of the opposition is R. Siva.

Puducherry Representative Assembly (1955-1963)

The tenure of different leaders of opposition of Puducherry Representative Assembly is given below

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Elected constituency	Term of office			Assembly Template:Small	Political partyTemplate:Efn
				Assumed office	Left office	Time in office
1		V. Kailassa Soubaya (1911–1993)	Murungapakkam-Nainar Mandapam	17 August 1955	24 October 1958	Template:Ayd	1st Template:Small	People's Front	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;" |
				September 1959	30 June 1963	Template:Ayd	2nd Template:Small

Puducherry Legislative Assembly (since 1963)

The tenure of different leaders of opposition of Puducherry Legislative Assembly is given below

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Elected constituency	Term of office			Assembly Template:Small	Political partyTemplate:Efn
				Assumed office	Left office	Time in office
1		V. Kailassa Soubaya (1911–1993)	Murungapakkam	1 July 1963	24 August 1964	Template:Ayd	1st Template:Small	People's Front	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;" |
			Mudaliarpet	29 August 1964	17 September 1968	Template:Ayd	2nd Template:Small
2		P. Shanmugam (1927–2013)	N.A.	17 March 1969	2 January 1974	Template:Ayd	3rd Template:Small	Indian National Congress	style="background:Template:Party color;" |
3		Dana Kantharaj	Raj Bhavan	6 March 1974	27 March 1974	Template:Ayd	4th Template:Small	Indian National Congress	style="background:Template:Party color;" |
4		P. Ansari Doraisamy (c.1917–N.A.)	Cassicade	2 July 1977	11 November 1978	Template:Ayd	5th Template:Small	Janata Party	style="background:Template:Party color;" |
5		P. Uthiravelu	Bahour	16 January 1980	23 November 1983	Template:Ayd	6th Template:Small	Congress (Indira)	style="background:Template:Party color;" |
6		P. K. Loganathan (1938–2013)	Oupalam	16 March 1985	4 March 1990	Template:Ayd	7th Template:Small	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	style="background:Template:Party color;" |
7		M.O.H. Farook	Lawspet	5 March 1990	3 March 1991	Template:Ayd	8th Template:Small	Indian National Congress	style="background:Template:Party color;" |
8		V. M. C. V. Ganapathy (1960–)	Neravy T. R. Pattinam	4 July 1991	13 May 1996	Template:Ayd	9th Template:Small	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	style="background:Template:Party color;" |
9		V. Vaithilingam	Nettapakkam	14 May 1996	21 March 2000	Template:Ayd	10th Template:Small	Indian National Congress	style="background:Template:Party color;" |
10		R.V. Janakiraman	Nellithope	22 March 2000	15 May 2001	Template:Ayd		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color;" |
				16 May 2001	11 May 2006	Template:Ayd	11th Template:Small
11		A. M. H. Nazeem	Karaikal	29 May 2006	May 2011	Template:Ayd	12th Template:Small
(9)		V. Vaithilingam	Kamaraj Nagar	17 August 2011	2016	Template:Ayd	13th Template:Small	Indian National Congress	style="background:Template:Party color;" |
12		N. Rangasamy	Indira Nagar	22 August 2016	22 February 2021	Template:Ayd	14th Template:Small	All India N.R. Congress	style="background:Template:Party color;" |
13		R. Siva	Villianur	8 May 2021	Till date	Template:Ayd	15th Template:Small	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	style="background:Template:Party color;" |

See also

• Government of Puducherry
• Lieutenant Governors of Puducherry
• Chief Minister of Puducherry
• Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• Speaker of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly
• Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of India
• List of current Indian opposition leaders
• Elections in Puducherry