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The 2024 Lok Sabha Speaker election in India was held on 26 June 2024 to elect the Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha. It was the fourth Lok Sabha Speaker election in India after 1952, 1967, and 1976 elections. [1] [a] [2] Former Speaker Om Birla of the BJP was elected back to the position after defeating Kodikunnil Suresh of the INC. [3] [4]
Speaker: Om Birla. Deputy Speaker: Vacant; Leader of the House: Narendra Modi; Leader of Opposition: Rahul Gandhi; Secretary General: Utpal Kumar Singh [5]; On 26 June 2024, Om Birla, was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha, defeating the opposition candidate Kodikunnil Suresh, in a voice vote, making it fourth election of Lok Sabha speaker in the history of India. [6]
[11] [12] He was appointed as the pro-tem speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha on 20 June 2024 by President Droupadi Murmu under the Article 95(1) of the Constitution of India, with the office coming into effect from the first day of the sitting of the 18th Lok Sabha i.e. 24 June 2024 and served till 24 June 2024 until Om Birla was elected as the ...
A speaker is the presiding officer of the Lok Sabha and of the legislative assembly of each of the twenty-eight states and three union territories. Similarly a chairperson heads the Rajya Sabha and the legislative council of each of the six states, where the upper house in the state legislature exists.
This is a list of members of the 18th Lok Sabha arranged by the states and union territories they are elected from. These MPs were elected in the 2024 Indian general election held in April–June 2024. [1] [2] [3]
The speaker of the Lok Sabha (IAST: Lok Sabhā Adhyakṣa) is the presiding officer and the highest authority of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. [2] The speaker is elected generally in the first meeting of the Lok Sabha following general elections.
General elections were held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all 543 members of the Lok Sabha. [a] Votes were counted and the result was declared on 4 June to form the 18th Lok Sabha. [2] [3] On 7 June 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed the support of 293 MPs to Droupadi Murmu, the president of India. [4]
Om Birla (born 23 November 1962; Hindi pronunciation: [oːm bɪɽ.laː]) [2] is an Indian politician from Rajasthan. He is currently serving as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha since 19 June 2019, when he was re-elected for a second term in June 2024.