The opposition INDIA bloc is likely to field Faizabad Member of Parliament (MP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Awadhesh Prasad for the post of Deputy Speaker in Lok Sabha, according to reports. Prasad, a nine-time MLA, won the recently-held Lok Sabha Election 2024 by defeating Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) two-time MP Lallu Singh in the … Read more
The post of the Deputy Speaker post, vacant in the second term of the Narendra Modi government, will be filled again. But in a break from tradition, the incumbent is likely to be from the NDA and not the Opposition, sources have indicated, making it clear that the government versus Opposition acrimony is likely to … Read more
“We have said to Rajnath Singh that we will support their Speaker (candidate) but the convention is that the post of Deputy Speaker to be given to opposition…,” Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said on June 25. Now, all eyes are on the post of Deputy Speaker, which the Opposition has been vying for since the … Read more