With Chandrababu Naidu saying no to the speaker post as seeking for funds for the development of the state of Andhra Pradesh, the BJP is getting ready for the election.
For the first time after the last several years there will be an election for the top post as the INDIA group has not agreed for the division of votes in the parliament.
INDIA demanded voting in the parliament. The NDA parties and the Congress-led INDIA block will go head-to-head in a battle for the Speaker’s post – arguably one of the most important in a parliamentary democracy and to be held for the first time since 1952 – after the two failed to agree on a division of seats.
The election will see the BJP’s Om Birla, a three-time MP from Kota in Rajasthan, up against the Congress’ Kodikunnil Suresh, an eight-term parliamentarian from Kerala’s Mavelikara.
OM Birla is likely to win given the BJP-led alliance’s majority; the Lok Sabha Speaker is elected by a simple majority of MPs voting and the ruling coalition can call on 293 votes to the INDIA bloc’s 232.
