NEW DELHI: (Jun 10) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to initiate the process of electing a deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
Keeping the position vacant “does not augur well for India’s democratic polity and is also in violation of well laid out provisions of the Constitution,” the Congress chief said.
In his letter to the PM, Kharge noted that from the first to the sixteenth Lok Sabha, every House has had a deputy speaker. PTI
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