New Delhi, June 10 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to initiate the process of electing a Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha

In his letter, Kharge said, "For the first time in independent India's history, this position has remained vacant for two consecutive Lok Sabha terms. No Deputy Speaker was elected during the Seventeenth Lok Sabha, and this concerning precedent continues in the ongoing Eighteenth Lok Sabha. This does not augur well for India's democratic polity and violates well-laid-out provisions of the Constitution."

"I am writing to bring to your kind attention the highly concerning matter in regard to the prevailing vis-a-vis the vacancy of the Deputy Speaker in the L...