Question: in the warrant of precedence the speaker of lok sabha is placed
Answer: Rank Persons President ( Ram Nath Kovind ) Vice president ( Venkaiah Naidu ) Prime minister ( Narendra Modi ) Governors of states ( within their respective states ) 5 Former presidents ( Pratibha Patil , Pranab Mukherjee ) 5A Deputy prime minister ( vacant ) 6 Chief justice ( Dipak Misra ) Speaker of the Lok Sabha ( Sumitra Mahajan ) 7 Cabinet ministers of the Union Chief ministers of states ( within their respective states ) Deputy Chairman of the NITI Aayog ( Rajiv Kumar ) Former prime ministers ( Atal Bihari Vajpayee , H.