Congress President Mallikrajun Kharge on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately start the process of election of the Lok Sabha, despite constitutional provisions, underlining the ongoing delay in the case.
In a letter to PM Modi, Kharge said that every Lok Sabha, from the first to sixteenth, saw the appointment of a sub -pool in both houses of Parliament, saying that it was also a “well established conference” to appoint the person from the members of the leading opposition party.
“However, for the first time in the history of independent India, this situation has been vacant for two consecutive Lok Sabha terms. No deputy speaker was elected during the seventeenth Lok Sabha and it continues in the infinite eighteenth Lok Sabha,” said Kharge.
Describing this about an excessive subject, Kharge underlined that Article 93 of the Constitution has made the election of both the speaker and deputy speaker of the house of the people. Constitutionally, he said, the second largest presiding officer in the House after the Deputy Speaker Speaker, to provide an appointment for the post with Article 93 of the Constitution.
My letter to PM Mr. @Narendra Modi At the urgency of starting the process of choosing the deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha without any other delay.
From earlier the sixteenth Lok Sabha, there was a deputy speaker in every House. By and big, it is a well installed … pic.twitter.com/wuyipltvqx
– Mallikrajun Kharge (@Kharge) June 10, 2025
Kharge said, “People’s house, as soon as possible, choose two members of the House to be speakers and deputy heads respectively and, therefore, therefore, often often the speaker or deputy speaker’s office is empty, harmony chose another member to become a speaker or deputy speaker, as the case could be,” Kharge said, quoted the provisions under the block.
Regarding the election of the deputy speaker, he said, Article 93 said that the House would choose a “as soon as possible”. He said that traditionally, the deputy speaker has been selected in the second or third session of a newly formed Lok Sabha.
Kharge said, “The process of this election for this election, only with the difference, only the difference that the election date of the deputy speaker is fixed by the speaker, as according to Rule 8 (1) of the Rules of Procedure and Business in the Lok Sabha,” Kharge said.
A vacancy on this post “did not do well for India’s democratic politics and has also violated the well -kept provisions of the Constitution”, Kharge said, urging PM Modi, to start the process without any further delay, keeping in mind the traditions of the House and the democratic ethos of Parliament.
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