Post: | Speaker |
Incumbent: | Vasudev Devnani |
Incumbentsince: | 21 December 2023 |
Style: | The Honourable |
Appointer: | Members of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly |
Termlength: | During the life of the Assembly (five years maximum) |
Inaugural: | Narottam Lal Joshi |
Formation: | 31 March 1952 |
Body: | the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly |
Insignia: | Emblem Rajasthan.png |
Insigniacaption: | Emblem of the State of Rajasthan |
Department: | Rajasthan Legislative Assembly |
Member Of: | Rajasthan Legislative Assembly |
The speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of the state of Rajasthan, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Rajasthan. He is elected by the members of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. The speaker is always a member of the Legislative Assembly.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Portrait | Name | Tenure | Assembly | Party | ||||
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1 | Narottam Lal Joshi | 31 March 1952 | 25 April 1957 | 1st | Indian National Congress | |||
2 | Ram Niwas Mirdha | 25 April 1957 | 3 May 1967 | 2nd | ||||
3rd | ||||||||
3 | Niranjan Nath Acharya | 3 May 1967 | 20 March 1972 | 4th | ||||
4 | Ram Kishore Vyas | 20 March 1972 | 18 July 1977 | 5th | ||||
5 | Laxman Singh | 18 July 1977 | 20 June 1979 | 6th | Janata Party | |||
6 | Raja Gopal Singh | 25 September 1979 | 7 July 1980 | |||||
7 | Poonam Chand Vishnoi | 7 July 1980 | 20 March 1985 | 7th | Indian National Congress | |||
8 | Hira Lal Devpura | 20 March 1985 | 16 October 1985 | 8th | ||||
9 | Giriraj Prasad Tiwari | 31 January 1986 | 11 March 1990 | |||||
10 | Hari Shankar Bhabhra | 16 March 1990 | 21 December 1993 | 9th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
30 December 1993 | 5 October 1994 | 10th | ||||||
11 | Shanti Lal Chaplot | 7 April 1995 | 18 March 1998 | |||||
12 | Samrath Lal Meena | 24 July 1998 | 4 January 1999 | |||||
13 | Parasram Maderna | 6 January 1999 | 15 January 2004 | 11th | Indian National Congress | |||
14 | Sumitra Singh | 16 January 2004 | 1 January 2009 | 12th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
15 | Deependra Singh Shekhawat | 2 January 2009 | 20 January 2014 | 13th | Indian National Congress | |||
16 | Kailash Chandra Meghwal | 22 January 2014 | 15 January 2019 | 14th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
17 | C. P. Joshi | 16 January 2019 | 20 December 2023 | 15th | Indian National Congress | |||
18 | Vasudev Devnani | 21 December 2023 | Incumbent | 16th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||