- Elections for the posts of Speaker and Deputy Speaker will be held in the first half on Tuesday and other businesses will be taken up in the second half
NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, DEC 18
The newly-elected MLAs of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly will take oath on the first day of the two-day session on Monday, an official said.
Elections for the post of Speaker and Deputy Speaker will be held on Tuesday.
Protem speaker and senior-most BJP MLA, Yogesh Patel, will administer the oath to the 182 MLAs in the first session of the 15th Legislative Assembly in the state capital Gandhinagar on Monday, secretary of Gujarat Assembly, DM Patel said on Sunday.
On the second day of the two-day session on Tuesday, the new members will meet to elect the Speaker, he said.
As per an official notification issued by the Assembly Secretariat, elections for the posts of Speaker and Deputy Speaker will be held in the first half on Tuesday and other businesses will be taken up in the second half.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which won the seventh consecutive term in the state with a record mandate in recent elections, has declared Shankar Chaudhary and Jethabhai Bharwad as candidates for the posts of Speaker and Deputy Speaker, respectively.
