The first session of the 4th Chhattisgarh Assembly began on Monday with senior BJP leader Gaurishankar Agrawal was elected unanimously as the Speaker of the 90-member House.
Before the election of Agrawal as the new speaker, the Pro-tem Speaker Satyanarayan Sharma who is a seasoned Congress leader, administered the oath to the newly elected members one by one. The first to take the oath was Chief Minister Raman Singh followed by the leader of the Opposition TS Singh Deo which was followed by oath taken by other members of the House as their name was called out by the Pro-tem Speaker.
Quite a few of the members took their oath in Chhattisgarhi dialect besides some members also preferred to take their oath in Sanskrit language.
After the members too oath, the House took up the next agenda of the election of the Speaker of the House with the first proposal in the House for election of BJP member Gaurishankar Agrawal made by Chief Minister Raman Singh followed by five other members from the treasury benches.
The proposals received by the Pro-tem Speaker was put on the floor of the House for voting and the members unanimously elected Agrawal as the Speaker of the House.
Agrawal was then invited by the Protem Speaker to assume charge by taking over the Speaker’s seat in the House. The House members thereafter extended their greetings to the new Speaker.