Lok Sabha Speaker election today LIVE Updates: All eyes on NDA's Om Birla vs INDIA bloc's K Suresh

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Catch all the Lok Sabha Speaker election today LIVE Updates here on LiveMint.Odisha: On Om Birla being nominated as Speaker of the Lok Sabha by NDA, BJD MP Muzibullah Khan says, "... We were expecting pro-tem speaker Bhartruhari Mahtab to be nominated as the Speaker. He is a very experienced leader.

NDA has been unjust with Odisha who has given 20 MPs to the BJP. We were hoping for at least 4 ministries and speaker post for Odisha MPs... Dharmendra Pradhan and Jual Oram have got ministries but still, we hoped for more...

We will raise the issues of Odisha in the Parliament and prove to be a good opposition. Our leader Naveen Patnaik has given us a freehold..." (25.06)Congress MP Pramod Tiwari says, "In a democratic system, conventions and traditions have the same importance as rules and regulations. It has been a tradition that whether it is Lok Sabha or Vidhan Sabha, the post of Speaker belongs to the ruling party and the post of Deputy Speaker, barring one or two occasions, always belongs to the opposition.

BJP has started a new tradition. They do not appoint a Deputy Speaker and if they appoint one, then they will appoint someone from their ally party. This is a mockery of democracy.

This is cruel treatment of democracy. Therefore, to register a democratic protest, we have fielded K Suresh, who is an 8-time MP, against their candidate, while Birla ji is a 1 or 3-time MP. We are fully hopeful that the majority of the members of Lok Sabha will go with Suresh ji..."Delhi: On the post of Lok Sabha speaker, BJP MP Tejaswi Surya says, "All efforts were made on the part of the NDA to arrive at a consensus but the opposition adopted a very confrontational attitude and instead of coming together to elect a speaker unanimously,