India, Feb. 13 -- Senior BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav on Tuesday filed nomination for Bihar assembly Speaker's post at the office of the Bihar Vidhan Sabha secretary.

Yadav was accompanied by chief minister Nitish Kumar, deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha, parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary and other leaders.

The election of the new Speaker of the Bihar Vidhan Sabha will take place on February 15, the Bihar Assembly Secretary notice stated.

The post became vacant after the removal of Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Awadh Bihari Chaudhary, who was voted out in a no-confidence motion on Monday.

Choudhary was the speaker for less than one-and-half years.

His predecessor Vijay Kumar Sinha was the first Speaker of the present Vid...