The Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The Speaker is elected in the very first meeting of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly after the general elections for a term of 5 years from amongst the members of the assembly. Speakers hold office until ceasing to be a member of the assembly or resigning from the office. The Speaker can be removed from office by a resolution passed in the assembly by an effective majority of its members. In the absence of Speaker, the meeting of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly is presided by the Deputy Speaker.
Eligibility The Speaker of the Assembly:
Must be a citizen of India; Must not be less than 25 years of age; and Should not hold any office of profit under the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Powers and functions of the Speaker The speaker of the legislative assembly conducts the business in house, and decides whether a bill is a money bill or not. They maintain discipline and decorum in the house and can punish a member for their unruly behaviour by suspending them. They also permit the moving of various kinds of motions and resolutions such as a motion of no confidence, motion of adjournment, motion of censure and calling attention notice as per the rules. The speaker decides on the agenda to be taken up for discussion during the meeting. The date of election of the speaker is fixed by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. Further, all comments and speeches made by members of the House are addressed to the speaker. The speaker is answerable to the house. Both the speaker and deputy speaker may be removed by a resolution passed by the majority of the members.
List of the Speakers
No Portrait Name ConstituencyTerm Assembly Party 1 Purushottam Das Tandon 31 July 1937 10 August 1950 Indian National Congress 2Nafisul Hasan 21 December 1950 19 May 1952 3 Atmaram Govind KherGarautha 20 May 1952 10 April 19571st 10 April 1957 26 March 19622nd 4 Madan Mohan VermaFaizabad 26 March 1962 16 March 19673rd 5 Jagdish Saran AgarwalBareilly City 17 March 1967 16 March 19694th (3) Atmaram Govind KherGarautha 17 March 1969 18 March 19745th 6Vasudev SinghGadwara 18 March 1974 12 July 19776th 7Banarasi DasHapur 12 July 1977 26 February 19797th Janata Party ActingJagannath Prasad27 February 197917 February 1980Indian National Congress 8Sripati MishraIsauli 7 July 1980 18 July 19828th Acting Yadvendra Singh 19 July 1982 24 August 1982 9Dharam Singh 25 August 1982 15 March 1985 10Niyaz Hasan KhanKunda 15 March 1985 9 January 19909th 11Harikishan SrivastavaChaubepur 9 January 1990 30 July 199110th Janata Dal 12 Keshari Nath TripathiAllahabad South 30 July 1991 15 December 199311th Bharatiya Janata Party 13Dhaniram VermaBidhuna 15 December 1993 20 June 199512th Samajwadi Party Acting Barkhu Ram Verma Sagri 20 June 1995 17 July 1995 Bahujan Samaj Party 14 18 July 1995 26 March 1997 (12) Keshari Nath TripathiAllahabad South 27 March 1997 14 May 200213th Bharatiya Janata Party 14 May 2002 19 May 200414th Acting Waqar Ahmad Shah Bahraich 19 May 2004 26 July 2004 Samajwadi Party 15 Mata Prasad PandeyItwa 26 July 2004 18 May 2007 16Sukhdev RajbharLalganj 18 May 2007 13 April 201215th Bahujan Samaj Party (15) Mata Prasad PandeyItwa 13 April 2012 30 March 201716th Samajwadi Party 17Hriday Narayan DikshitBhagwantnagar 30 March 2017 29 March 202217th Bharatiya Janata Party18 Satish MahanaMaharajpur 29 March 2022Incumbent18th
List of the Deputy Speakers
No Portrait Name ConstituencyTerm Assembly 1 Abdul Hakim 31 July 1937 28 October 1939 2 Nafisul Hasan 29 July 1946 21 December 1950 3Hargovind Pant 2 January 1951 9 April 1957 1st 4 Ramnarayan Tripathi 27 April 1957 6 March 1962 2nd 5 Hoti Lal Agrawal 16 April 1962 14 February 19673rd 6 Shripati Mishra 19 June 1967 14 April 19684th 7 Vasudev Singh 25 March 1969 4 March 19745th 8 Shivnath Singh Kushwaha Ghatampur 21 February 1975 30 April 19776th 9 Jagannath Prasad 13 May 1978 17 February 19807th 10 Yadvendra Singh 5 September 1980 14 December 1982 8th 11 Hukum Singh 14 September 1984 10 March 1985 12Trilok Chandra 5 September 1985 29 November 19899th 13Surendra Singh Chouhan 7 March 1990 4 April 199110th 14 Ram Asrey Varma 28 February 1992 6 December 199211th 15 Ammar Rizvi 28 September 2001 20 January 200213th 16 Waiqar Ahmed Shah Bahraich 14 November 2003 26 July 2004 14th 17 Rajesh Agarwal Bareilly 30 July 2004 13 May 2007
See also Government of Uttar Pradesh Governor of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Speaker of the Lok Sabha Chairman of the Rajya Sabha List of current Indian legislative speakers and chairmen
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