Speaker of the Lok Sabha
List of Speakers

Speaker of the Lok Sabha

Section Title: List of Speakers
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No.	Name	Portrait	Term	Party

From	To	Length	Lok Sabha

1	Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar	-	15 May 1952	27 February 1956	3 years, 288 days	1st	Indian National Congress

2	M. A. Ayyangar	8 March 1956	10 May 1957	1 year, 63 days

11 May 1957	16 April 1962	4 years, 340 days	2nd

3	Hukam Singh	17 April 1962	16 March 1967	4 years, 333 days	3rd

4	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	-	17 March 1967	19 July 1969	2 years, 124 days	4th

5	Gurdial Singh Dhillon	—	8 August 1969	19 March 1971	1 year, 221 days

22 March 1971	1 December 1975	4 years, 254 days	5th

6	Bali Ram Bhagat	—	15 January 1976	25 March 1977	1 year, 69 days

(4)	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	-	26 March 1977	13 July 1977	109 days	6th	Janata Party

7	K. S. Hegde	-	21 July 1977	21 January 1980	2 years, 184 days

8	Balram Jakhar	-	22 January 1980	27 oct 1984	3 years, 358 days	7th	Indian National Congress

16 January 1985	18 December 1989	4 years, 336 days	8th

9	Rabi Ray	—	19 December 1989	9 July 1991	1 year, 202 days	9th	Janata Dal

10	Shivraj Patil	-	10 July 1991	22 May 1996	4 years, 317 days	10th	Indian National Congress

11	P. A. Sangma	23 May 1996	23 March 1998	1 year, 304 days	11th

12	G. M. C. Balayogi	—	24 March 1998	19 October 1999	1 year, 209 days	12th	Telugu Desam Party

22 October 1999	3 March 2002	2 years, 132 days	13th

13	Manohar Joshi	-	10 May 2002	2 June 2004	2 years, 23 days	Shiv Sena

14	Somnath Chatterjee	-	4 June 2004	31 May 2009	4 years, 361 days	14th	Communist Party of India (Marxist)

15	Meira Kumar	-	4 June 2009	4 June 2014	5 years, 0 days	15th	Indian National Congress

16	Sumitra Mahajan	-	5 June 2014	Incumbent	4 years, 317 days	16th	Bharatiya Janata Party

Sentence(s)

The current speaker is Sumitra Mahajan of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who presides over the 16th Lok Sabha.

final_sentence: The current speaker is Sumitra Mahajan of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who presides over the 16th Lok Sabha.