The following procedure is followed to form a government in a state
(i) General elections are contested to elect representatives from various constituencies.
(ii) A political party attaining more than half of the total seats is said to be in majority and this party forms the government.
(iii) MLAs belonging to ruling party elect their leader who then becomes Chief Minister.
(iv) The Chief Minister then selects other people as ministers.
(v) And finally, the Governor appoints them.

The full form of MLA is Member of the Legislative Assembly is elected by the people and hence, this way they 'represent' people.
A person is elected as an MLA in the following manner

1. Each state is divided into different areas or constituencies.
2. Elections are organised in each constituency.
3. People from each constituency vote for their representatives. The person attaining maximum votes is then elected as an MLA.

Coalition A coalition is a pact or treaty among different parties in which they cooperate and join together to attain majority and form the government. In a parliamentary system, Coalition Government is made up of coalition of parties.

In the above situation, Health Minister should take the required action like improving health services and clean drinking water should be supplied to people, etc.

From the above picture, it is inferred that people have gathered to raise their opinion for
some issue and protest the government. This type of public action is allowed in democratic government.

In the week after the assembly session, the Chief Minister and the Minister for health visited Patalpuram district.
They do the following in the district

1. They visited the families who had lost their relatives.
2. They visited people in hospitals.
3. The government announced compensation for the families.
4. The Chief Minister said, a high-level enquiry committee will be asked to look into the needs of the district to provide sanitation facilities.
5. The Chief Minister said he would request the minister of public works to take care of the needs of proper water supply in the region.

Himachal Pradesh is divided into 68 assembly constituencies. From each constituency, people elect one representative who then becomes a member of Legislative Assembly. From 68 constituencies, a party needs more than 34 MLAs in order to gain majority. In 2003, Indian National Congress had majority with 43 MLAs and became the ruling party. The MLAs other than Indian National Congress became opposition and it was Bharatiya Janata Party who had the second largest number of MLAs. Shri Virbhadra Singh was selected as the majority leader and became Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh.