Three-term MP from Kota in Rajasthan and Speaker during the previous Lok Sabha, Om Birla, was on Tuesday reelected as Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha by a voice vote.
The Congress-led INDIA bloc had fielded the most senior MP, Kodikunnil Suresh, for the post after the BJP-led NDA alliance refused to assure that the Deputy Speaker's post would go to an Opposition leader.
On Wednesday morning Pro Tem Speaker Bhartruhari Mahtab announced that nominations had been filed by both Birla and Suresh for the post. He put the resolution for appointment of Birla to a voice vote. The Opposition did not press for a division. Thereafter Mahtab announced the election of Birla as the new Speaker.
As soon as the announcement was made Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was appointed the Leader of Opposition at a meeting of the floor leaders of the Congress and its INDIA bloc allies on Tuesday, walked up to where Birla was seated. There, PM Modi and Rahul first shook hands, and then along with Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju escorted Birla to the Speaker's chair.
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