New Delhi, June 11 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to initiate the process of electing a deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
Keeping the position vacant "does not augur well for India's democratic polity and is also in violation of well laid out provisions of the Constitution," the Congress chief said.
"Dear Prime Minister, 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 Lok Sabha. "Article 93 of the Constitution of India mandates the election of both the speaker and the deputy speaker of the House of the People. Constitutionally, the deputy speaker is the second-highe...