2024-06-22 17:52:53
New Delhi: Seven-time MP Bhartruhari Mahtab was on Thursday appointed as the professional tem Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju mentioned. Mahtab, a BJP MP from Cuttack, has been appointed as the professional tem Speaker by President Draupadi Murmu underneath Article 95 (1) of the Structure to discharge duties as presiding officer till the election of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. The newly elected members of the 18th Lok Sabha will take oath earlier than the professional tem Speaker.
A panel of those leaders was shaped to help the Protem Speaker
Rijiju mentioned the professional tem Speaker shall be assisted by a panel of presiding officers comprising Congress chief Okay Suresh, DMK chief TR Balu, BJP’s Radha Mohan Singh and Faggan Singh Kulaste and Trinamool Congress chief Sudip Bandyopadhyay. Mahtab had stop the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) to affix the BJP earlier than the Lok Sabha elections.
Congress opposed the appointment of Mehtab as Protem Speaker
Congress has opposed the appointment of Bhartruhari Mahtab because the Protem Speaker. Congress mentioned that the appointment of BJP MP Bhartruhari Mahtab because the non permanent Speaker of the Lok Sabha as an alternative of its eight-time MP Kodikunnil Suresh is one other try to destroy parliamentary norms. Congress Basic Secretary Jairam Ramesh mentioned that Suresh ought to have been appointed because the non permanent Speaker as a result of he’s an eight-time MP, whereas Mahtab is a seven-time MP.
‘Try to destroy parliamentary norms’
Congress social gathering common secretary KC Venugopal posted on Twitter: “In yet one more try to destroy parliamentary norms, Bhartruhari Mahtab (seven-time MP) has been appointed as the professional tem Speaker of Lok Sabha, changing Kodikunnil Suresh. Suresh will enter his eighth time period as an MP.” He mentioned, “It’s an undisputed norm that the senior-most MP presides over the proceedings of the Home earlier than the Speaker is duly elected. It’s a matter of immense satisfaction for our social gathering that Okay Suresh, a frontrunner from the marginalised sections of society, has achieved this feat of being an eight-time MP.”
‘Why did the federal government ignore Okay Suresh?’
Ramesh mentioned the federal government ought to clarify why it ignored Okay Suresh, what was the rationale that disqualified him from the put up? Are there some deeper points influencing this determination, maybe past simply advantage and seniority? In line with custom, the MP who has served the utmost time period is appointed the professional tem speaker for the primary two days, when all of the newly elected MPs are sworn in.
He additionally mentioned, ‘Essentially the most senior MPs within the 18th Lok Sabha are Kodikunnil Suresh (Congress) and Virendra Kumar (BJP), each of whom at the moment are finishing their eighth time period. Kumar is now a Union minister and so it was anticipated that Kodikunnil Suresh could be the professional tem Speaker. In his place, seven-time MP Bhartruhari Mahtab has been appointed because the Protem Speaker. He was a six-time Biju Janata Dal MP and is now a BJP MP. The primary session of the eighteenth Lok Sabha will start on June 24. The newly elected members will take oath on June 24-25. The election of the Lok Sabha Speaker is to be held on June 26.
(With company inputs)