List of speakers of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly

Speaker of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Emblem of Chhattisgarh
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Incumbent Raman Singh since 10 December 2023
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Member of	Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Appointer	Members of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Term length	During the life of the Chhattisgarh state assembly (five years maximum)
Inaugural holder	Rajendra Prasad Shukla
Deputy	vacant

The speaker of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. He is elected by the members of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. The speaker is always a member of the Legislative Assembly. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

List of Speakers

No	Portrait	Name	Tenure			Assembly	Party
1		Kunji Lal Dubey	1 November 1956	1 July 1957	10 years, 126 days	1st	Indian National Congress
			2 July 1957	26 March 1962		2nd
			27 March 1962	7 March 1967		3rd
2		Kashi Prasad Pandey	24 March 1967	24 March 1972	5 years, 0 days	4th
3		Tejlal Tambhare Harishchandra	25 March 1972	10 August 1972	138 days	5th
4		Gulsher Ahmad	14 August 1972	14 July 1977	4 years, 334 days
5		Mukund Sakharam Newalkar	15 July 1977	2 July 1980	2 years, 353 days	6th	Janata Party
6		Yagya Datt Sharma	3 July 1980	19 July 1983	3 years, 16 days	7th	Indian National Congress
7		Ram Kishore Shukla	5 March 1984	13 March 1985	1 year, 8 days
8		Rajendra Prasad Shukla	25 March 1985	19 March 1990	4 years, 359 days	8th
9		Brij Mohan Mishra	20 March 1990	22 December 1993	3 years, 277 days	9th	Bharatiya Janata Party
10		Sriniwas Tiwari	24 December 1993	1 February 1999	9 years, 352 days	10th	Indian National Congress
			2 February 1999	11 December 2003		[[11th Madhya Pradesh Assembly]

==List of speakers==

#	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term [4]			Assembly	Party
1		Rajendra Prasad Shukla	Kota	14 December 2000	19 December 2003	3 years, 5 days	1st	Indian National Congress
2		Prem Prakash Pandey	Bhilai Nagar	22 December 2003	5 January 2009	5 years, 14 days	2nd	Bharatiya Janata Party
3		Dharamlal Kaushik	Bilha	5 January 2009	6 January 2014	5 years, 1 day	3rd
4		Gaurishankar Agrawal	Kasdol	6 January 2014	3 January 2019	4 years, 362 days	4th
5		Charan Das Mahant	Sakti	4 January 2019	10 December 2023	4 years, 340 days	5th	Indian National Congress
6		Raman Singh	Rajnandgaon	10 December 2023	incumbent	1 year, 344 days	6th	Bharatiya Janata Party

List of Deputy Speakers

#	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term [5]			Assembly	Party
1		Banwari Lal Agrawal	Katghora	28 March 2001	9 March 2003	1 year, 346 days	1st	Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Dharmjeet Singh Thakur	Lormi	13 March 2003	5 December 2003	267 days		Indian National Congress
3		Badridhar Deewan	Sipat Assembly constituency	12 July 2005	11 December 2008	3 years, 152 days	2nd	Bharatiya Janata Party
4		Narayan Chandel	Janjgir-Champa	2 August 2010	11 December 2013	3 years, 131 days	3rd
(3)		Badridhar Deewan	Beltara	23 July 2015	12 December 2018	3 years, 142 days	4th
5		Manoj Singh Mandavi	Bhanupratappur	2 December 2019	16 October 2022	2 years, 318 days	5th	Indian National Congress
6		Santram Netam [6]	Keshkal	4 January 2023	10 December 2023	340 days
7		Vacancy		15 December 2023	"Incumbent"	1 year, 339 days	6th	Bharatiya Janata Party

Pro tem Speaker

List of Pro tem Speakers

• Mahendra Bhadur Singh Interim
• Rajendra Prasad Shukla 2003
• Potaram Kanwar 2008
• Satyanarayana Sarma 2013
• Rampukar Singh 2018
• Ramvichar Netam 2023

References

1. "Speaker". Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha website. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
2. "Gaurishankar Agrawal elected Speaker of Chhattisgarh Assembly". Zee News. 6 January 2014.
3. "Congress' Charan Das Mahant Chosen As Speaker Of Chhattisgarh Assembly". www.ndtv.com. 4 January 2019.
4. "speaker". www.cgvidhansabha.gov.in.
5. "Deputy Speaker". cgvidhansabha.gov.in.
6. "Chhattisgarh Politics: संतराम नेताम होंगे विधानसभा के नए उपाध्यक्ष, जानिए विधायक दल की बैठक में क्या हुआ". ABP Live (in Hindi). 4 January 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2025.