Lok Sabha Speaker 2024 Updates: Om Birla Elected for the Second Term as Lok Sabha Speaker

Lok Sabha Speaker 2024 Updates: Om Birla Elected Again for the Second Term as Lok Sabha Speaker

Finally, the result came out and we got our next Lok Sabha Speaker. Let’s read some major facts about Lok Sabha Speaker 2024.

The Lok Sabha Speaker 2024 has been elected. Om Birla has again been elected as Lok Sabha Speaker 2024. The speaker Om Birla was selected in the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha held on this Wednesday.

The victor of this election was Om Birla, the nominee of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). He Defeated Kodikunnil Suresh of INDIA’s bloc in the voice vote and hence won the election. Currently, he will serve as both the lower house’s chief spokesperson and the head of the Lok Sabha.

Following his victory, Birla was led to the Speaker’s chair by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi (Leader of the Opposition party INDIA ), and Kiran Rijiju (Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed his name for this letter. On June 26, Om Birla, a BJP politician and NDA candidate, was chosen to serve as the 18th Lok Sabha’s speaker.

In the voice vote on Wednesday in the House, Birla defeated K Suresh, the nominee for the INDIA bloc. Other than Balram Jakhar (1985), Om Birla is the only speaker in the Lok Sabha to have served two complete terms. It is uncommon for this to happen because normally the opposition and the ruling party work together to choose the speaker of the Lok Sabha.

Om Birla is a three-time member of parliament representing Kota, Rajasthan. In the 17th Lok Sabha, he was selected as lok sabha speaker too. Mr. Birla was praised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his ability to keep the House civil during his last term.

However, from the Speaker’s chair, Rahul Gandhi, the recently appointed Leader of the Opposition (LoP), emphasised the significance of “impartiality,” stating that it is a non-democratic idea if you run the House efficiently by suppressing the voice of the Opposition.”

How does one become Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

The election of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker is provided for in Article 93 of the Indian Constitution. The Lok Sabha’s presiding officer is chosen by the lok sabha members using a simple majority. The Pro-tem Speaker oversees the process of electing the Speaker, which is typically the first thing to be conducted in the newly formed Lok Sabha. Typically, a member of the ruling party is chosen to serve as Speaker, while the opposition chooses a Deputy Speaker.

About Om Birla

Om Birla is a businessperson and politician from Rajasthan who was born on November 23, 1962. Since June 19, 2019, he has served as the Lok Sabha’s Speaker for the first time. Since 2014, he has represented Rajasthan’s Kota constituency as a member of the Lok Sabha. After holding the position of Lok Sabha speaker for two terms, he was re-elected to the lower house of parliament in the current session of 2024.

His Political Career Till Now

• Birla was appointed to the 16th, 17th, and 18th Lok Sabha representing the BJP’s candidate to represent the Kota constituency.
• He served as a member of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment’s Consultative Committee and the Standing Committee on Energy in the 16th Lok Sabha.
• It surprised everyone when he was first chosen to serve as Lok Sabha Speaker 2019 for the first time. In June 2024, he was again elected for the second time to serve as a Lok Sabha speaker 2024.

His Personal Life

Om Birla was born into a Baniya Hindu family, his father’s name is Shrikrishna Birla and his mother is Shrimati Shakuntala Devi. Birla has done his master’s in commerce stream from Government Commerce College located in Kota, Rajasthan. He married with Amita Birla in the year 1991 and was blessed with two daughters named Akansha and Anjali.