From each constituency, the people elect one representative who then becomes a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).

The Governor shall not be a member of the Legislature or Parliament, shall not hold any office of profit, and shall be entitled to emoluments and allowances.

Until January 2020, the President had the power to nominate two Anglo Indians to the Lok Sabha and the Governor had the power to nominate one member[2] from the Anglo Indian community deems fit if the governor thinks that they are not adequately represented in the Assembly.

In January 2020, the Anglo-Indian reserved seats in the Parliament and State legislatures of India were abolished by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019.

[5] Between 1957 and 2019, before the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A of the Constitution of India, the former 89-member Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly had 2 seats reserved for the nominated women members.

Additionally, the Lieutenant Governor may nominate two representatives of Kashmiri migrant families to the assembly, one of which is reserved for woman.

The Assembly may be dissolved earlier if no one can prove majority support and become Chief Minister.

Some of these items are police, prisons, irrigation, agriculture, local governments, public health, pilgrimage, and burial grounds.

Some topics on which both Parliament and states can make laws are education, marriage and divorce, forests, and the protection of wild animals and birds.

The state legislature, besides making laws, has one electoral power, in electing the President of India.