The Constitution of India
The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
- Jurisdiction
- India
- Provision
- 178
- Source language
- eng+tel
- Recorded status
- in force
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- Recorded status
- in force
Provision text
Official sourceAssembly of a State shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the Assembly to be
respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker thereof and, so often as the office of Speaker or
Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, the Assembly shall choose another member to be Speaker
or Deputy Speaker, as the case may be.
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The Constitution of India · legislative.gov.in · Retrieved 17 August 2026.
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