List of speakers of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
This is a list of the speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly.
| Speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly | |
|---|---|
| Style | The Honourable |
| Appointer | Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly |
| Term length | During the life of the Assembly (five years maximum) |
| Inaugural holder | Narottam Lal Joshi |
| Formation | 31 March 1952 |
List of Speaker of Rajasthan
| No. of Assembly & its Period | Speaker | Period | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (23 February 1952 – 1957) | Narottam Lal Joshi | 31 March 1952 – 25 April 1957 | |
| 2 (2 April 1957 – 1 March 1962) | Ram Niwas Mirdha | 25 April 1957 – 2 March 1962 | Mirdha was as a cabinet minister of the Government of India for several departments during the 1970s and 1980s and became of member of the Lok Sabha for Barmer, Rajasthan, from 1991 to 1996. chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi |
| 3 (3 March 1962 – 28 February 1967) | Ram Niwas Mirdha | 3 March 1962 – 3 May 1967 | |
| 4 (1 March 1967 – 15 March 1972) | Niranjan Nath Acharya | 3 May 1967 – 20 March 1972 | |
| 5 (15 March 1972 – 30 April 1977) | Ram Kishore Vyas | 20 March 1972 – 18 July 1977 | Lt Governor of Pondicherry in 1980, represented the Hawamahal and Chomu Rajasthan assembly constituencies twice each |
| 6 (22 June 1977 – 17 February 1980) | Laxman Singh Gopal Singh |
18 July 1977 – 20 June 1979 25 September 1979 – 7 July 1980 |
Laxman Singh- the last ruling Maharawal (Maharaja) of the princely state of Dungarpur from 1918 to 1989, a former MP in the Rajya Sabha, leader of opposition in state assembly.
Gopal Singh - Indian mystic, poet, writer and philosopher. He was the Governor of Goa since May, 1987 and first regular Governor of Nagaland. Singh was nominated member of Rajya Sabha from 3 April 1962 to 2 April 1968. |
| 7 (6 June 1980 – 9 March 1985) | Poonam Chand Vishnoi | 7 July 1980 – 20 March 1985 | He was elected to Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Bhinmal, Phalodi and Luni, They also served as deputy speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly and Cabinet Minister in Rajasthan Government . |
| 8 (9 – 1 March 1990) | Hira Lal Devpura Giriraj Prasad Tiwari |
20 March 1985 – 16 October 1985 31 January 1986 to 3 November 1990 |
Chief Minister of Rajasthan state in India from 23 February 1985 to 10 March 1985. It was a stop gap arrangement between Shiv Charan Mathur and Hari Dev Joshi. |
| 9 (2 March 1990 – 15 December 1992) | Hari Shankar Bhabhra | 16 March 1990 – 1 December 1993 | He is a state leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 6 October 1994 to 1 December 1998. Bhabhra was the Deputy chairperson of Economic Policy and Reform Council in the Rajasthan Government. He was a Member of the Rajya Sabha in 1978-84. |
| 10 (4 December 1993 – 30 November 1998) | Hari Shankar Bhabhra Shanti Lal Chaplot Samrath Lal Meena |
30 December 1993 – 5 October 1994 7 April 1995 – 18 March 1998 24 July 1998 – 4 January 1999 |
Shanti Lal Chaplot- is a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in the Rajasthan, India, former MP. member of 12th Lok Sabha from Udaipur. He also has been awarded by the "Best MLA award" for 2008. |
| 11 (1 December 1998 – 4 December 2003) | Parasram Maderna | 6 January 1999 – 15 January 2004 | he was involved with Baldev Ram Mirdha in the Marwar Kisan Sabha and then the Rajasthan Kisan Sabha, both of which were agrarian movements. |
| 12 (5 December 2003 – 10 December 2008) | Sumitra Singh | 16 January 2004 – 1 January 2009 | she is the first woman to have held that post in Rajasthan. She held this post till January 2009. Singh was elected to the Assembly for nine out of twelve terms (1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1985, 1990, 1998, 2003) |
| 13 (11 December 2008 – 9 December 2013) | Deependra Singh Shekhawat | 2 January 2009 – 21 January 2014 | |
| 14 (11 December 2013 – 16 December 2018) | Kailash Chandra Meghwal | 22 January 2014 – 15 January 2019 | MLA of Shahpura, Bhilwara constituency of Rajasthan in 14th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly & Ex-MP Tonk constituency of Rajasthan in 14th Lok Sabha. |
| 15 (16 January 2019 – present) | Dr. C. P. (Chandra Prakash) Joshi | 16 January 2019 – present | He was the Member of Parliament of India from Bhilwara in the 15th Lok Sabha.In 2012, after Mamata Banerjee went out of UPA and Mukul Roy resigned as Railways Minister, CP Joshi got extra charge of Railways Ministry.he was appointed President of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee. in 2008 assembly elections only to lose his own seat by one vote, to Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Kalyan Singh Chauhan |
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