The Republic of India

Bharat Samvidhan
The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
Part VI · Article 178

Article 178

The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly

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Every Legislative Assembly 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.

Source: Constitution of India, Legislative Department, Government of India. Reproduced under Section 52(1)(q), Copyright Act 1957.