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Deputy Speaker News: Earlier, there was a fierce tussle between the ruling NDA and the opposition over the post of Lok Sabha Speaker. Now the opposition has started staking claim for the post of Deputy Speaker. There was also a phone conversation between Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and Mamta Banerjee regarding this.
Mamta revealed a shocking name!
If sources are to be believed, Mamata Banerjee has proposed to make MP Awadhesh Prasad the Deputy Speaker. Awadhesh Prasad is the only MP to win the Lok Sabha elections from Ayodhya and comes from the Dalit community.
An opposition candidate outside the Congress was proposed
It has been a tradition for the opposition to get the post of Deputy Speaker. In such a situation, it is believed that Awadhesh Prasad can create trouble for the BJP. Awadhesh Prasad became an MP from Ayodhya on SP ticket. Mamata Banerjee has put forward the name of the non-Congress opposition candidate. Usually the post of Lok Sabha Speaker is with the ruling party, while the opposition is given the post of Deputy Speaker. However, from 1990 to 2014, the post of Deputy Speaker also remained with the ruling party. While the post of Deputy Speaker was vacant from 2019 to 2024.
Powers similar to those of the President
The Deputy Speaker has the same legislative powers as the Speaker. Apart from this, the Deputy Speaker also takes over the administrative powers in the absence of the Speaker due to death, illness or any other reason. To run an accountable democratic Parliament, it has been a parliamentary tradition that the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha is elected from a party other than the ruling party. However, there is no indication from the government yet that this post will be filled in the 18th Lok Sabha as well. Let us tell you that for the first time after independence, there was no Deputy Speaker in the 17th Lok Sabha.
