{"id":4002,"date":"2023-03-10T04:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T22:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2025-03-26T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:32:34","slug":"deputy-speaker-of-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/deputy-speaker-of-lok-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Parliament has been functioning without a deputy speaker, a post usually held by the main Opposition party, for nearly four years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About Deputy Speaker:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>History:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The institutions of Speaker and Deputy Speaker <strong>originated in India in 1921<\/strong> <strong>under<\/strong> the provisions of the <strong>Government of India Act of 1919<\/strong> (Montague-Chelmsford Reforms).<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>1921<\/strong>, <strong>Frederick Whyte<\/strong> and <strong>Sachidanand Sinha<\/strong> were <strong>appointed<\/strong> by the Governor-General of India as the <strong>first Speaker<\/strong> and the <strong>first Deputy Speaker<\/strong> (respectively) <strong>of the Central Legislative Assembly<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>At that time, the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker were <strong>called<\/strong> <strong>the President<\/strong> and <strong>Deputy President<\/strong>, respectively, and the same <strong>nomenclature continued till 1947.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>V. Mavalankar<\/strong> <strong>and Ananthasayanam Ayyangar<\/strong> had the distinction of being the <strong>first Speaker and the first Deputy Speaker<\/strong> (respectively) <strong>of the Lok Sabha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Constitutional Provision w.r.t. Office of Deputy Speaker:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Article 93<\/strong> of the Constitution <strong>says that the House<\/strong> of the People (Lok Sabha) <strong>shall choose two members<\/strong> of the House <strong>to be, respectively, Speaker<\/strong> and <strong>Deputy Speaker.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The article<\/strong> also says that <strong>when the office<\/strong> of Speaker\/Deputy Speaker <strong>becomes vacant<\/strong>, the <strong>House shall choose another member<\/strong> to be Speaker or Deputy Speaker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Election of Deputy Speaker:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Like the Speaker, the <strong>Deputy Speaker is also elected by the Lok Sabha<\/strong> itself <strong>from amongst its members.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He is elected <strong>after the election of the Speaker<\/strong> has taken place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The date of election<\/strong> of the Deputy Speaker is <strong>fixed by the Speaker<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Term of Office:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Like the Speaker, the <strong>Deputy Speaker remains in the office <\/strong>usually <strong>during the life of the Lok Sabha<\/strong>. However, <strong>he may vacate his office earlier<\/strong> in any of the following <strong>three cases<\/strong>\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bif <strong>he ceases to be a member<\/strong> of the Lok Sabha;<\/li>\n<li>if <strong>he resigns<\/strong> <strong>by writing to the Speaker<\/strong>; and<\/li>\n<li>if <strong>he is removed by a resolution<\/strong> passed by a <strong>majority of all the then members<\/strong> of the Lok Sabha. Such a resolution can be moved only after giving <strong>14 days\u2019 advance notice<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Role\/Power of Deputy Speaker:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Deputy Speaker <strong>performs the duties of the Speaker\u2019s office<\/strong> <strong>when it is vacant.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He also <strong>acts as the Speaker<\/strong> when the <strong>latter is <\/strong>absent from the sitting of the House. In both cases, <strong>he assumes all the powers of the Speaker<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deputy Speaker is not subordinate to the Speaker<\/strong>. He is directly <strong>responsible to the House<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>He also <strong>presides over the joint sitting<\/strong> of both Houses of Parliament <strong>in case the Speaker is absent <\/strong>from such a sitting.<\/li>\n<li>The Deputy Speaker has one special privilege, that is, <strong>whenever he is appointed as a member of a parliamentary committee<\/strong>, <strong>he automatically becomes its chairman.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When the Speaker presides<\/strong> over the House, <strong>the Deputy Speaker is like any other ordinary member<\/strong> of the House. <strong>He can speak<\/strong> in the House, <strong>participate<\/strong> in its proceedings, <strong>and vote on any question<\/strong> before the House.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0What does Article 93 say?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Articles 93 says that the House of the People shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the House to be respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker thereof and, so often as the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, the House shall choose another member to be Speaker or Deputy Speaker, as the case may be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2023\/mar\/09\/no-deputy-speaker-in-lok-sabha-for-last-4-years-unprecedented-say-experts-and-opposition-2554474.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>No deputy speaker in Lok Sabha for last 4 years; unprecedented, say experts and Opposition<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Speaker performs the duties of the Speaker\u2019s office when it is vacant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}