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New Delhi: Om Birla has been elected Speaker of Lok Sabha. Pro tem Speaker Bhartruhari Mahtab declared him victorious by voice vote. PM Narendra Modi came to see off the new Speaker.
After being elected, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijjiju accompanied him to the chair of the speaker. They extended best wishes to Om Birla for becoming the speaker of the house.
Earlier, PM Modi had proposed his name.
Let us tell you that Congress had demanded the post of Deputy Speaker, on not getting any answer to this, the opposition has fielded its candidate for the Speaker. The Pro tem Speaker will conduct voting in the House. BJP-Congress have also issued whip to the MPs.
NDA has an upper hand in terms of numbers. NDA with 293 MPs in the Lok Sabha has a clear majority. I.N.D.I.A block has 233 MPs. There are 16 other MPs. Election is held by simple majority of the members present in the Parliament.
TMC is angry over K. Suresh being made the candidate, it says that the name of the candidate was announced without taking us into confidence. According to media reports, Rahul Gandhi has talked to TMC chief Mamata Banerjee over the phone and convinced her.
Traditionally, the Lok Sabha Speaker and Deputy Speaker were elected through consensus between the ruling party and the opposition.
The contest will witness the BJP’s Om Birla, a three-time MP from Kota in Rajasthan, up against the Congress’ Kodikunnil Suresh, an eight-term parliamentarian from Kerala’s Mavelikara. Suresh is the longest-serving parliamentarian in the 18th Lok Sabha.
Both the ruling BJP and the main opposition Congress Party have issued three-line whips to their members, mandating their presence in the Lok Sabha today from 11 am until the end of the proceedings. The INDIA bloc is unlikely to push for a division of votes and only insist on a voice vote to make its point.
The NDA, which commands 293 MPs in the 543-member Lok Sabha, holds a clear majority, while the opposition INDIA bloc comprises 234 MPs
