The Madhya Pradesh Assembly’s monsoon session, which was scheduled to begin here from July 20, has been postponed in light of the coronavirus pandemic, an official said on Friday.
The decision to defer the session was taken unanimously at an all-party meeting on Friday chaired by protem Speaker Rameshwar Sharma.
The meeting was attended by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Leader of Opposition Kamal Nath and Home and Legislative Affairs Minister Narottam Mishra, among others, he said. The decision will be forwarded to the Governor for approval, he added.
This decision also means that Rameshwar Sharma would continue as protem Speaker. As per rules, protem Speaker is appointed only upto the time when full-time Speaker is not elected in the first meeting of the House.
With this, The election of new Speaker and Deputy Speaker has also been delayed. Earlier too, the first protem Speaker Jagdeesh Deora had remained on this post for over three months, before he was made Cabinet Minister in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan Government.
At present Rameshwar Sharma is on the post of Protem Speaker since July 2.