New Delhi. There is a fierce battle going on in the Lok Sabha for the post of Speaker. The Congress-Indi alliance, which is part of the opposition, has declared K. Suresh as its candidate against the nomination of Om Birla from the NDA. Now there is a discussion that the opposition will also declare its candidate for the post of Deputy Speaker. On the one hand, the opposition is demanding to keep the post of Deputy CM with itself, talking about tradition. On the other hand, if we talk about the states ruled by the Congress and Indi alliance, then the government there has appointed the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly from its own party.
Has the election of the speaker of Lok Sabha ever been conditional till date? They (opposition) are saying that we will support the speaker only if the deputy speaker is appointed.
This is being said by those who have appointed their own Speaker and Deputy Speaker in Telangana. In Karnataka, they have their own Speaker and their own Deputy Speaker. In the West… pic.twitter.com/8epKPxZSJk
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Regarding this, BJP’s National President J.P. Nadda also targeted the opposition’s Indy alliance and asked whether the election of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha has ever been conditional? The opposition is saying that we will support the Speaker only if the Deputy Speaker is decided. This is being said by those people who have appointed the Speaker and Deputy Speaker from their own parties in the states ruled by them. These are the people who live by double standards. Come, let us tell you about those states where the Congress and Indy alliance are in power, who is the Speaker and Deputy Speaker and which party they belong to.
First of all, let us talk about Karnataka where there is a Congress government. Here, Congress has appointed its own party leader U.T. Khader Farid as the Speaker and R.M. Lamani as the Deputy Speaker. There is a Congress government in Telangana too and Congress MLA Gaddam Prasad Kumar is the Speaker while the post of Deputy Speaker is vacant. In Himachal Pradesh too, Congress has appointed Kuldeep Singh Pathania as the Speaker and its own party leader Vinay Kumar as the Deputy Speaker. There is a DMK government in Tamil Nadu which is a part of the Indy alliance. Here too, the situation is the same, M. Appavu is the Speaker and DMK’s K. Pichandi is the Deputy Speaker. There is a JMM and Congress government in Jharkhand. Here, JMM’s Rabindra Nath Mahato is the Speaker while the post of Deputy Speaker is vacant.