This is not the first time that the Lok Sabha Speaker is being elected, know when the voting for the Speaker’s chair took place

New Delhi: Most of the MPs have taken oath for the 18th Lok Sabha. Now the formal proceedings of the Lok Sabha will begin on Wednesday. The Lok Sabha Speaker will also be elected tomorrow, so that the House can run smoothly. This time too, Om Birla has been nominated by the BJP and NDA for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker. Last time he/she was elected unanimously. But this time the All India Alliance has also fielded K. Suresh, an eight-time MP from Kerala’s Mavelikara seat, for the post of Speaker. Usually the Lok Sabha Speaker is elected without election, but this time due to lack of consensus between the government and the opposition, the Speaker is sure to be elected. But this will not be the first time that the Lok Sabha Speaker is being elected. Elections for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker have been held twice before.

First election of Lok Sabha speaker

After the country’s first general election in 1952, there was no consensus in Parliament on the Lok Sabha Speaker and elections were held. First Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru proposed to elect freedom fighter and former member of the Constituent Assembly G.V. Mavalankar as the Speaker. Malaviya was supported by the then Parliamentary Affairs Minister Satya Narayan Sinha, Darbhanga Madhya MP S.N. Das and Gurgaon MP Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava. But Kannur MP A.K. Gopalan, founder of the communist movement and one of the 16 other opposition MPs, proposed in favour of Shantaram More. More was the founder of the Bharatiya Kisan and Mazdoor Party. The opposition MPs supported him/her.

History is being repeated this time too

In 1952, the Speaker’s election was held in the House. Mavalankar was elected as the Speaker with 394 votes, while 55 MPs opposed his/her nomination. Incidentally, this time too, the opposition’s candidate for the Speaker’s post, K. Suresh, is also an MP from Mavelikara in Kerala. Apart from this, it is also a coincidence that this time the Speaker’s election was on the issue of whether the government would give the Deputy Speaker’s post to the opposition or not. That is, in 1952, the Congress did not give the Deputy Speaker’s post to the opposition, and today the same party is demanding the Deputy Speaker’s post from the government citing democracy.

Second election of Lok Sabha speaker

The second Lok Sabha Speaker election was held in 1976. In fact, after the declaration of Emergency in 1975, the term of the 5th Lok Sabha was extended for one year. After this, in 1976, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi proposed to elect Congress MP BR Bhagat as the Speaker. It was supported by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Raghu Ramaiya. Bhavnagar MP PM Mehta proposed the name of Jagannath Rao Joshi. Jan Sangh’s Joshi was supported by Hajipur MP DN Singh (Congress O). Bhagat was later elected Speaker. he/she got 344 votes in his/her favour and 58 votes went against him/her.