Earlier Thursday, President Droupadi Murmu appointed Mahtab as pro-tem Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha. "President is pleased to appoint Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab, Member, Lok Sabha as Speaker Protem ...

Seven-term parliamentarian Bhartruhari Mahtab was on June 20 appointed pro tem Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Parliamentary ...

With the Opposition gaining significant strength in the current Lok Sabha, its members are actively vying for the post of the Deputy Speaker. While not constitutionally mandated, a longstanding ...

The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Wednesday (March 26, 2025) alleged that the House was being run in a “non-democratic” way after Speaker Om Birla made a ...

“I requested him (the Speaker) to let me speak, but he just ran away. This is no way to run the House,” Rahul Gandhi told reporters outside the Parliament. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on ...

The 'secret sitting' provision in the House of Lok Sabha allows the government to ... is allowed only when it is duly authorised by the Speaker of the House. During the 1962 Sino-Indian war ...

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday amended the rules to permit electronic signatures of members to mark attendance in Parliament for sanction of daily allowance entitled to them ...

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla ordered a guillotine to pass the Union Budget 2025 and expedite the passage of demands for grants across various ministries without discussion in the face of Opposition ...

His remarks came after Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla asked him to follow the rules of procedure that members are expected to observe to uphold the dignity of the House. It was not immediately clear ...

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla had in March 2023 applied guillotine to clear the Budget 2023-24. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2025-2026 on February 1, 2025.