The Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Bihar. The Speaker is elected in the very first meeting of the Bihar 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 is presided by the Deputy Speaker.
List # Portrait Name Term Assembly Party 1 Ram Dayalu Singh 23 July 1937 11 November 1944 1st Indian National CongressAfter Independence1 Bindeshwari Prasad Verma25 April 194614 March 1962Indian National Congress 1st 2nd 2 Lakshmi Narayan Sudhanshu 15 March 1962 15 March 1967 3rd 3 Dhanik Lal Mandal 16 March 1967 10 March 1969 4th Samyukta Socialist Party 4 Ram Narayan Mandal 11 March 1969 20 March 1972 5th Indian National Congress 5 Harinath Mishra 21 March 1972 26 June 1977 6th 6 Tripurari Prasad Singh 28 June 1977 22 June 1980 7th Janata Party 7 Radhanandan Jha 24 June 1980 1 April 1985 8th Indian National Congress (I) 8 Shivchandra Jha 4 April 1985 23 January 1989 9th Indian National Congress 9 Md Hidayatullah Khan 27 March 1989 19 March 1990 10 Ghulam Sarwar 20 March 1990 9 April 1995 10th Janata Dal 11 Deo Narayan Yadav 12 April 1995 6 March 2000 11th Rashtriya Janata Dal 12 Sadanand Singh 9 March 2000 28 June 2005 12th Indian National Congress13Uday Narayan Choudhary 30 November 2005 29 November 2010 14th Janata Dal (United) 2 December 2010 20 November 2015 15th 14 Vijay Kumar Chaudhary 21 November 2015 24 November 2020 16th 15 Vijay Kumar Sinha 25 November 2020 24 August 2022 17th Bharatiya Janata Party 16 Awadh Bihari Choudhary 26 August 2022 12 February 2024 Rashtriya Janata Dal 17 Nand Kishore Yadav 15 February 2024 30 November 2025 Bharatiya Janata Party 18 Dr. Prem Kumar 2 December 2025 Incumbent 18thBharatiya Janata Party
Pro tem Speaker Narendra Narayan Yadav was appointed as the Pro tem on 24 November 2025 after the conclusion of 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election to facilitate the oath taking of new MLAs and the election of the new Assembly Speaker. Deputy
List of Pro tem Speakers Sadanand Singh 2015 Jitan Ram Manjhi 2020 Narendra Narayan Yadav 2025
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