Lok Sabha Speaker Election: Om Birla To Take Oath As Speaker For Third Time In Row | ABP News

Elections for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker are going to be held on Wednesday (June 26). A tough contest is expected between the ruling party and the opposition for this historic election. Even though the ruling party or the government has the numerical strength, but due to secret voting, the way is open for the opposition also. A consensus could not be reached between the government and the opposition for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker on Tuesday (June 25), after which the election was decided. There is a contest for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker between BJP MP Om Birla from NDA and Kodikunnil Suresh from Congress. Birla and Suresh also filed their nomination papers as candidates of NDA and opposition Alliance India on Tuesday. Om Birla has also been a former speaker of the Lok Sabha. He is a three-time MP from Kota in Rajasthan, while K Suresh is an eight-time MP from Mavelikara seat in Kerala.  The decision to contest the election for the post of Speaker has been taken by the opposition at the last moment. The condition of the India alliance was that in exchange for the support of NDA candidate Om Birla, the opposition should be given the post of Deputy Speaker. Senior BJP leaders did not accept this, after which elections were announced. Somewhere, despite having less numerical strength, the opposition wants to hold elections to show its strength and unity.  In fact, in the Parliament House office of Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, the opposition's organization general secretary KC Venugopal and DMK's TR Baalu ​​reached a consensus on this issue with Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and Health Minister and BJP President JP Nadda. Negotiate for the purpose of making. But both sides remained adamant on their stand and no result was achieved.