List of speakers of the Delhi Legislative Assembly

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Speaker of the Delhi Legislative Assembly
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Incumbent
Ram Niwas Goel
since February 2015
Delhi Legislative Assembly
Member of Delhi Legislative Assembly
AppointerMembers of the Delhi Legislative Assembly
Term length During the life of the Delhi Legislative Assembly (five years maximum)
Inaugural holder Charti Lal Goel
Deputy Rakhi Birla

Speaker of the Delhi Legislative Assembly [1] is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of NCT Delhi, the main law-making body for the Delhi. He is elected by the members of the Delhi Legislative Assembly. The speaker is always a member of the Legislative Assembly. [2]

Ram Niwas Goel is the 7th and current speaker of the Delhi Legislative Assembly, having assumed office on 23 February 2015.

List of the Speakers

Ram Niwas Goel of Aam Aadmi Party is the incumbent speaker of the Delhi Legislative Assembly since 2015. [3]

No.NameConstituencyTermPartyAssembly
(Election)
1 Charti Lal Goel Model Town 16 December 199314 December 1998 Bharatiya Janata Party First Assembly
(1993)
2 Chaudhary Prem Singh Ambedkar Nagary 14 December 199817 June 2003 Indian National Congress Second Assembly
(1998)
3 Subhash Chopra Kalkaji 17 June 200317 December 2003 Third Assembly
(2003)
4 Ajay Maken Rajouri Garden 17 December 200328 May 2004
(2) Chaudhary Prem Singh Ambedkar Nagary 20 July 200415 December 2008
5 Yoganand Shastri Mehrauli 19 December 200831 December 2013 Fourth Assembly
(2008)
6 Maninder Singh Dhir Jangpura 3 January 201423 February 2015 Aam Aadmi Party Fifth Assembly
(2013)
6 Ram Niwas Goel Shahdara 23 February 2015 [4] 24 February 2020 Sixth Assembly
(2015)
24 February 2020Incumbent Seventh Assembly
(2020)

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