start process of lok sabha deputy election speaker mallikarjun kharge wrote letter to pm modi

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urging him to start the process of election of Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha. He said that Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urging him to start the process of election of Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha. My letter to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the need to start the process of election of Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha without any delay. From the first to the sixteenth Lok Sabha, there has been a vice -president in every House. Broadly, the appointment of vice -president among the members of the main opposition party has been a well -established tradition.

Kharge further said that however, for the first time in the history of independent India, this post has been vacant for two consecutive Lok Sabha tenures. No vice president was elected during the seventeenth Lok Sabha, and this worrying example continues in the current eighteenth Lok Sabha. It is not an auspicious sign for India’s democratic politics and is also a violation of the conducive provisions of the Constitution. He said, “Article 93 of the Constitution of India provides for the election of both the Speaker and the Vice President of the Lok Sabha. Constitutionally, the Vice President, is the second largest presiding officer in the House after the Speaker.”

Kharge said that traditionally, the Deputy Chairman is elected in the second or third session of the newly formed Lok Sabha. He said that the process of this election is the same as the process of election of the president, the only difference is that the date of election of the vice president is decided by the Speaker as per Rule 8 (1) of the proceedings and functioning rules in the Lok Sabha. In his letter to the PM, Kharge said that he has been a vice president in every House from first to sixteenth Lok Sabha.