{"id":31269,"date":"2024-06-24T04:57:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/bjp-mp-bhartruhari-mahtab-takes-oath-as-pro-tem-speaker-of-the-18th-lok-sabha-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T04:57:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:57:57","slug":"bjp-mp-bhartruhari-mahtab-takes-oath-as-pro-tem-speaker-of-the-18th-lok-sabha-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/bjp-mp-bhartruhari-mahtab-takes-oath-as-pro-tem-speaker-of-the-18th-lok-sabha-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP MP Bhartruhari Mahtab takes oath as pro-tem Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>New Delhi: BJP MP Bhartruhari Mahtab was first administered the oath as the Pro-Tem Speaker by President Droupadi Murmu. He will now call upon the Prime Minister to take oath as member of the House. About 280 newly-elected MPs will take oath today, while the remaining parliamentarians, including Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, will take oath tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The row over the appointment of seven-time MP Bhartruhari Mahtab as the Pro-Tem Speaker is likely to escalate. The post of Pro Tem Speaker \u2013 a temporary one \u2014 traditionally goes to the senior most member of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress \u2013 which was expecting Kodikunnil Suresh, a Dalit leader and an eight-time MP from Kerala, to be named Pro-Tem Speaker \u2013 has criticisied the BJP over the appointment of Mr Mahtab.<\/p>\n<p>The Lok Sabha Speaker will be elected on June 26. Until a new Speaker is elected, the Pro-Tem Speaker presides over the first few sessions of the Lok Sabha and conducts the election for the new Speaker and Deputy Speaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] New Delhi: BJP MP Bhartruhari Mahtab was first administered the oath as the Pro-Tem Speaker by President Droupadi Murmu. He will now call upon the Prime Minister to take oath as member of the House. About 280 newly-elected MPs will take oath today, while the remaining parliamentarians, including Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BJPs-Bhartruhari-Mahtab-sworn-in-as-Lok-Sabha-pro.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31271,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31269\/revisions\/31271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}