Om Birla Becomes First Lok Sabha Speaker In 20 Years To Be Re-elected As MP

Om Birla Becomes First Lok Sabha Speaker In 20 Years To Be Re-elected As MP:

Om Birla, the incumbent Lok Sabha Speaker, has achieved a remarkable feat by winning the Kota parliamentary seat on June 4, 2024. With a resounding margin of 41,139 votes, Birla has become the first presiding officer in 20 years to be re-elected to the Lower House of Parliament.

• The last Lok Sabha Speaker to secure re-election to the Lower House was P.A. Sangma, who served as the presiding officer during the 11th Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998.
• Sangma, then a member of the Congress party, was re-elected from Tura in Meghalaya in the 1998 Lok Sabha election.
• In 1999, G.M.C. Balayogi from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) was elected as the Lok Sabha Speaker from Amalapuram in Andhra Pradesh.
• Tragically, Balayogi passed away in a helicopter crash in 2002.