Border: | Parliamentary |
Minister: | not_prime |
Post: | Speaker |
Speaker | |
Body: | the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
Incumbent: | Vipin Singh Parmar |
Incumbentsince: | 20 February 2020 |
Department: | Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
Style: | The Honourable |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Nominator: | Members of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
Appointer: | Governor of Himachal Pradesh |
Termlength: | During the life of the Assembly (five years maximum) |
Termlength Qualified: | Renewable |
Deputy: | Krishan Chandra |
Website: | https://hpvidhansabha.nic.in/Member/SpkrList |
The Speaker of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The Speaker is elected in the very first meeting of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly after the general elections for a term of 5 years from amongst the members of the assembly. The Speaker must be a member of the assembly. 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 of theLegislative Assembly is presided by the Deputy Speaker.[1]
scope=col | Portrait | Name | scope=col | Constituency | Term | Party | ||||
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1 | Jaiwant Ram | 24 March 1952 | 31 October 1956 | Indian National Congress | ||||||
2 | Desh Raj Mahajan | 4 January 1963 | 18 March 1967 | |||||||
20 March 1967 | 19 March 1972 | |||||||||
3 | Kultar Chand Rana | 28 March 1972 | 29 June 1977 | |||||||
4 | Sarvan Kumar | 30 June 1977 | 18 April 1979 | |||||||
5 | Thakur Sen Negi | 8 May 1979 | 21 June 1982 | |||||||
22 June 1982 | 14 September 1984 | |||||||||
6 | Vidya Stokes | 11 March 1985 | 19 March 1990 | Indian National Congress | style=background-color: | |||||
7 | Radha Raman Shastri | 20 March 1990 | 17 August 1990 | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||||
8 | Thakur Sen Negi | 20 August 1990 | 14 December 1993 | |||||||
9 | Kaul Singh Thakur | 15 December 1993 | 12 March 1998 | Indian National Congress | style=background-color: | |||||
10 | Gulab Singh Thakur | 30 March 1998 | 7 March 2003 | |||||||
11 | Gangu Ram Musafir | 11 March 2003 | 9 January 2008 | Indian National Congress | style=background-color: | |||||
12 | Tulsi Ram | 11 January 2008 | 1 January 2013 | Bharatiya Janata Party | style=background-color: | |||||
13 | Brij Behari Lal Butail | 9 January 2013 | 5 January 2018 | Indian National Congress | style=background-color: | |||||
14 | Rajeev Bindal | 10 January 2018 | 16 January 2020 | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||||
15 | Vipin Singh Parmar | 26 February 2020 | 13 December 2022 | |||||||
16 | Kuldeep Singh Pathania[2] [3] | 5 January 2023 | incumbent | Indian National Congress | style=background-color: |