Speaker of the Lok Sabha

The **Speaker of the Lok Sabha** is the presiding officer of the lower house of the Parliament of India, known as the Lok Sabha. The role of the Speaker is the same as in other countries which use the Westminster system of government.

The speaker is elected in the very first meeting of the Lok Sabha after the general elections. He or she is chosen from the members of Lok Sabha. The speaker serves for a term of five years. The current speaker is Om Birla. He is the Member of parliament from Rajasthan.

## List of Speakers

|rowspan=2|No.|rowspan=2|Name|rowspan=2|Portrait|colspan=4|Term|rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party||||||
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|align=center|1|Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar <small>_Ahmedabad_</small>||15 May 1952|27 February 1956||rowspan=2 align=center|1st|rowspan=8|Indian National Congress|rowspan=8 width="4px" style="background-color: "||||
|align=center rowspan=2|2|rowspan=2|M. A. Ayyangar <small>_Chittoor_</small>|rowspan=2||8 March 1956|10 May 1957||||||||
|11 May 1957|16 April 1962||align=center|2nd|||||||||||
|align=center|3|Hukam Singh <small>_Patiala_</small>||17 April 1962|16 March 1967||align=center|3rd|||||||
|align=center|4|Neelam Sanjiva Reddy <small>_Hindupur_</small>||17 March 1967|19 July 1969||align=center rowspan=2|4th|||||||
|align=center rowspan=2|5|rowspan=2|Gurdial Singh Dhillon _<small>Tarn Taran</small>_|rowspan=2 align=center height=100px|—|8 August 1969|19 March 1971||||||||
|22 March 1971|1 December 1975||align=center rowspan=2|5th|||||||||||
|align=center|6|Bali Ram Bhagat _<small>Arrah</small>_||15 January 1976|25 March 1977||||||||||
|align=center|(4)|Neelam Sanjiva Reddy _<small>Nandyal</small>_||26 March 1977|13 July 1977||rowspan=2 align=center|6th|rowspan=2|Janata Party|rowspan=2 style="background-color: "||||
|align=center|7|K. S. Hegde _<small>Bangalore South</small>_||21 July 1977|21 January 1980||||||||||
|align=center rowspan=2|8|Balram Jakhar _<small>Ferozepur</small>_|rowspan=2||22 January 1980|27 October 1984||align=center|7th|rowspan=2|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2 style="background-color: "|||
|Balram Jakhar <small>_Sikar_</small>|16 January 1985|18 December 1989||align=center|8th||||||||||
|align=center|9|Rabi Ray _<small>Kendrapara</small>_|align=center height=100px||19 December 1989|9 July 1991||align=center|9th|Janata Dal|style="background-color: "||||
|align=center|10|Shivraj Patil <small>_Latur_</small>||10 July 1991|22 May 1996||align=center|10th|rowspan=2|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2 style="background-color: "||||
|align=center|11|P. A. Sangma _<small>Tura</small>_||23 May 1996|23 March 1998||align=center|11th|||||||
|align=center rowspan=2|12|rowspan=2|G. M. C. Balayogi <small>_Amalapuram_</small>|rowspan=2 align=center height=100px||24 March 1998|19 October 1999||align=center|12th|rowspan=2|Telugu Desam Party|rowspan=2 style="background-color: "||
|22 October 1999|3 March 2002||rowspan=2 align=center|13th|||||||||||
|align=center|13|Manohar Joshi <small>_Mumbai North Central_</small>||10 May 2002|2 June 2004||Shiv Sena|style="background-color: "|||||||
|align=center|14|Somnath Chatterjee _<small>Bolpur</small>_||4 June 2004|31 May 2009||align=center|14th|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|style="background-color: "|||||
|align=center|15|Meira Kumar _<small>Sasaram</small>_||4 June 2009|4 June 2014||align=center|15th|Indian National Congress|style="background-color: "|||||
|align=center|16|Sumitra Mahajan _<small>Indore</small>_||6 June 2014|16 June 2019||align=center|16th|rowspan="2"|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan="2" style="background-color: "||||
|align="center"|17|Om Birla _<small>Kota</small>_||19 June 2019|Incumbent||align="center"|17th|||||||