Article 93 of the Constitution

Article 93 of the Constitution

Subject – Polity

Context – With the Delhi High Court asking the Union government on Wednesday to explain its stand on a petition that said keeping the post of Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha vacant is a violation of Article 93 of the Constitution, the issue is once again in the spotlight.

Concept –

• Article 93 of the Constitution pertains to Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of the People.
• The House of the People shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the House to be respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker thereof and, so often as the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, the House shall choose another member to be Speaker or Deputy Speaker, as the case may be.

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Deputy Speaker.