Election of Lok Sabha Speaker: Lok Sabha Speaker is a powerful post that is constantly contested. Voting will be held today for who will be the speaker. For a moment, it seemed that the NDA candidate would be elected fairly, but in the meantime, the opposition fielded its own candidate and rigged the election. The NDA has once again fielded Om Birla as its candidate while the opposition has fielded Ke Suresh. This is going to be the third time in the history of the country, when an election will be held for the Speaker. In fact, the opposition is adamant about the demand of the Deputy Speaker. At the same time, no consensus could be reached regarding the speaker. While Rahul Gandhi is now the leader of the opposition. If he insists on his demand, the slips will be distributed among the MPs.
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Know the game of number of MPs in Lok Sabha
Talking about the number of Lok Sabha, the total number of MPs is 543. BJP has 240 MPs. While NDA has a total of 293 MPs. TDP has 16 and JDU has 12 MPs. Bharat Gathbandhan has 235 MPs. In which Congress has 98 MPs and others have 14 MPs. When a seat is vacant.
Notably, TMC and YSRCP may support NDA. The TMC has 29 MPs in the Lok Sabha, which says the candidate has been selected without discussion with the Congress. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP says its MPs will support Om Birla. There is talk of 3 independent candidates going in favor of Suresh.
What is the status of other 17 MPs?
If we talk about the other 17, 4 YSRCP MPs and the jailed Amritpal Singh and Engineer Rashid are yet to take oath as MPs.
Voting can be done through paper slip
A motion to name the Speaker may be passed by voice vote. If the opposition insists on division of votes, paper slips will be distributed to the MPs for voting as new MPs are not allotted seats. Therefore electronic display system cannot be used.
How will the Speaker of the Lok Sabha be selected?
- For the election of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the MPs elect two MPs from among themselves as Speaker and Deputy Speaker. This election is by very simple majority.
- The candidate for whom more than half of the MPs present in the Lok Sabha vote becomes the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. It means that whoever gets 50 percent votes will get this post.
- Out of 542 Lok Sabha seats, NDA has 293 seats, if we halve the 542, the figure comes to 271, thus their majority in Lok Sabha. In such a situation there should be no obstacle in the way of Om Birla becoming President.
- When the proceedings of the Lok Sabha begin on Wednesday, the names of the newly elected MPs who have not yet taken the oath of office will be asked first.
- Protem Speaker Bhartrihari Mahtab will call out the name of the proposer of Om Birla. You will then be asked to submit a proposal. There will also be an approver.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will then propose Om Birla’s name as the new Lok Sabha Speaker in the House and urge all parties to unanimously elect him without opposition.
- After this, the number of Suresh’s proposer and endorser will come.
- If the government accepts the request made by the opposition, K. If Suresh’s name is not proposed as a candidate for Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Birla will be elected unopposed as Lok Sabha Speaker. If the opposition proposes the name of its candidate, the election will be held in the House.
- If there is a vote for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker, then there is a possibility that this vote will be done by slip of slip Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla K.K. Suresh.
- Then there will be division of votes. The proposal that gets a simple majority i.e. 50 percent of the votes in its favor will win.
- The candidate who gets more than half of the votes of the sitting MPs in the House will be elected as Speaker.
- After this, the Leader of the House i.e. PM Modi and the Leader of the Opposition will complete the process of taking the elected Speaker to the seat.
- At the same time, the pro tem speaker will hand over the seat to the newly elected speaker.
- After this, prominent leaders of all parties will congratulate and wish the Speaker-elect through a speech.