Post: | Speaker |
Body: | the Bihar Legislative Assembly |
Insignia: | File:Seal of Bihar.svg |
Insigniacaption: | Seal of Bihar |
Department: | Bihar Legislative Assembly |
Member Of: | Bihar Legislative Assembly |
Appointer: | Members of the Legislative Assembly |
Incumbent: | Nand Kishore Yadav |
Inaugural: | Ram Dayalu Singh |
Incumbentsince: | 16 February 2024 |
Termlength: | During the life of the Bihar Legislative Assembly (five years maximum) |
Residence: | Patna |
The Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Bihar. The Speaker is elected in the very first meeting of the Bihar Legislative Assembly after the general elections for a term of 5 years from amongst the members of the assembly. Speakers hold office until ceasing to be a member of the assembly or resigning from the office. The Speaker can be removed from office by a resolution passed in the assembly by an effective majority of its members. In the absence of Speaker, the meeting is presided by the Deputy Speaker.
No | Portrait | Name | Term[1] | Assembly | Party | |||
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1 | Ram Dayalu Singh | 23 July 1937 | 11 November 1944 | 1st | Indian National Congress | |||
After Independence | ||||||||
1 | Bindeshwari Prasad Verma | 25 April 1946 | 14 March 1962 | Indian National Congress | ||||
1st | ||||||||
2nd | ||||||||
2 | Lakshmi Narayan Sudhanshu | 18 March 1962 | 15 March 1967 | 3rd | ||||
3 | Dhanik Lal Mandal | 16 March 1967 | 10 March 1969 | 4th | Samyukta Socialist Party | |||
4 | Ram Narayan Mandal | 11 March 1969 | 20 March 1972 | 5th | Indian National Congress | |||
5 | Harinath Mishra | 21 March 1972 | 26 June 1977 | 6th | ||||
6 | Tripurari Prasad Singh | 28 June 1977 | 22 June 1980 | 7th | Janata Party | |||
7 | Radhanandan Jha | 24 June 1980 | 1 April 1985 | 8th | Indian National Congress (I) | |||
8 | Shivchandra Jha | 4 April 1985 | 23 January 1989 | 9th | Indian National Congress | |||
9 | Md Hidayatullah Khan | 27 March 1989 | 19 March 1990 | |||||
10 | Ghulam Sarwar | 20 March 1990 | 9 April 1995 | 10th | Janata Dal | |||
11 | Deo Narayan Yadav | 12 April 1995 | 6 March 2000 | 11th | ||||
Rashtriya Janata Dal | ||||||||
12 | Sadanand Singh | 9 March 2000 | 28 June 2005 | 12th | Indian National Congress | |||
13 | Uday Narayan Choudhary | 30 November 2005 | 29 November 2010 | 14th | Janata Dal (United) | |||
2 December 2010 | 28 November 2015 | 15th | ||||||
14 | Vijay Kumar Chaudhary | 2 December 2015 | 15 November 2020 | 16th | ||||
15 | Vijay Kumar Sinha | 25 November 2020 | 24 August 2022 | 17th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
16 | Awadh Bihari Choudhary | 26 August 2022 | 12 February 2024 | Rashtriya Janata Dal | ||||
17 | Nand Kishore Yadav | 16 February 2024 | Incumbent | Bharatiya Janata Party |