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Amidst speculation that he may be the Opposition’s candidate for the post of Deputy Speaker, Samajwadi Party MP from Faizabad Awadhesh Prasad was on Monday named as one of the nine members of the panel of chairpersons to help Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
Addressing the House on Monday, Birla said he had selected Jagdambika Pal (BJP), P C Mohan (BJP), Sandhya Ray (BJP), Dilip Saikia (BJP), Kumari Selja (Congress), A Raja (DMK), Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (TMC), Krishna Prasad Tenneti (TDP) and Awadhesh Prasad (SP) as members of the panel of chairpersons.
As per Rule 9 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, “at the commencement of the House or from time to time, as the case may be, the Speaker shall nominate from amongst the members a panel of not more than ten Chairpersons, anyone of whom may preside over the House in the absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker when so requested by the Speaker or, in the absence of the Speaker, by the Deputy Speaker.”
Prasad defeated the BJP candidate from Faizabad, the constituency that is home to the Ayodhya Ram Temple, just months after the consecration of the temple.
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