Assembly Speaker

After forming the State Government in Karnataka, the Indian National Congress started its first K'taka Assembly Session. As of now, there is no finalisation of the Assembly Speaker, therefore RV Deshpande has been named as protem speaker of the Assembly. State Governor Thawarchand Gehlot administered the oath to Deshpande to hold the Assembly, which will be held til May 24. The Session started two-days after Siddaramaiah took oath as CM.

BJP leader Rahul Narvekar has been elected as the Maharashtra Assembly speaker.  On July 3, Navrekar won the Assembly speaker elections with 164 votes, including votes from non-BJP MLAs. Earlier today, the elections for speaker post kick-started. After the headcount, the BJP candidate beat Shiv Sena candida Yamini Jadhav. and was declared the speaker. With this victory,  Rahul Narvekar has now taken the charge of the office.

After Yogi Adityanath's oath-taking ceremony as CM, the BJP led UP Government will now elect the Assembly Speaker on March 29. The name will be announced during a legislature meeting, scheduled to be held in the UP Assembly Secretariat, at 3 pm. Nominations for the speaker will be filed till evening of March 28. Furthermore, the MLAs will also take oath from March 28, administered by protem speaker Ramapati Shastri.

Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Tammineni Sitaram adjourned the Budget session, on March 14. Notably, the TDP leaders protested against the ruling YSRCP Government over the recent deaths in Jangareddygudem, West Godavari. Amid the heated arguments between the TDP and YSRCP MLAs over deaths, and political blame game, the Speaker adjourned the session. Furthermore, considering the TDP MLAs behaviour, the YSRCP leaders asked Sitaram to suspend… read-more