Om Birla of NDA vs K Suresh of Congress for Lok Sabha Speaker; Consensus fails

DN Bureau

The election for the Speaker is to take place tomorrow June 26. Read further on Dynamite News:

Speaker: Om Birla vs K Suresh
Speaker: Om Birla vs K Suresh


New Delhi: For the first time, there will be an election for the Speaker in Lok Sabha as the ruling NDA and the Opposition could not reach a consensus.

While Om Birla is the NDA candidate, the opposition bloc has fielded veteran Congress leader K Suresh.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju were deployed to build a consensus on the Speaker candidate after the opposition INDIA bloc said it was considering its options.

The election for the Speaker is to take place tomorrow June 26. 










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