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Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker post vacant for the last 15 months. Instead, a panel of MPs has been assisting the Speaker.
Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker post
- Deputy Speaker is also elected by the Lok Sabha itself from amongst its members.
- The seat of the Deputy Speaker should be filled either by election or consensus after a new Lok Sabha is constituted.
- By convention the post of the Deputy Speaker is offered to the opposition party.
- Deputy Speaker is not subordinate to the Speaker but directly responsible to the House.
- Article 93 of the Constitution provides for election of both the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
- The election of a Deputy Speaker shall be held on such date as the Speaker may fix based on the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha.
- How a Deputy Speaker seat can be Vacant ?
- Deputy Speaker Resigns or
- Ceases to be a member of LS.
- Removed by the LS
- Duties of the Position
- Act on Speaker duty when the Speaker’s seat vacant.
- Assumes all the powers of the Speaker.
- Special Privilege : If he is appointed as a member of a parliamentary committee he automatically becomes its chairman.
- He can only exercise a casting vote in the case of a tie while presiding over the house.
- He will be like any other ordinary member when Speaker presides the house.
- Position of Speaker and Deputy Speaker originated in India in 1921 under the provisions of the Government of India Act of 1919 (Montague–Chelmsford Reforms) which they called as President and Deputy President.
Source : The Hindu
Topic
Prelims : About the post
GS II : Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, functions and responsibilities of various Constitutional Bodies
Current Affairs Compilation : 10 September 2020