BJP Lawmaker Virendra Kumar To Be Interim Lok Sabha Speaker

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Virendra Kumar  is set to become the pro tem speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha, news agency ANI reported. Virendra Kumar  a seven-term MP from Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh, was minister of state in the ministry of women and child development (headed by Maneka) and MoS in the minority affairs ministry in the previous Narendra Modi government.

The name of the pro tem speaker was finalised by the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry . He will be administered the oath by President Ram Nath Kovind.

The main duty of the pro tem Speaker is to administer the oath of office to new members of the Lok Sabha.  A temporary post, the pro tem Speaker presides over the first meeting of lower House of Parliament after the General election besides presiding over the sitting in which the Speaker and Deputy Speaker is elected if it is a newly constituted House.