Akbaruddin Owaisi as Pro-tem Speaker: ‘Won’t Take Oath!’ says Raja Singh

The public representatives who won the recently held assembly elections will be sworn in as MLAs tomorrow. Akbaruddin Owaisi, who won from the AIMIM Party, will be sworn in as Pro-tem Speaker at Raj Bhavan at 8.30 AM on Saturday. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan will administer the oath to Akbaruddin. After that, the assembly meetings will start at 10:30 AM. After taking oath as MLAs with the newly elected members, the Pro-tem Speaker will preside over the House until the Speaker is elected. Assembly meetings will continue for four days.

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Six-time MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi

Usually, the MLA who has been elected to the Legislative Assembly for the most number of times is appointed as Pro-tem Speaker. Currently, KCR has won as MLA eight times. Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Danam Nagender, Talasani Srinivas Yadav and Akbaruddin Owaisi won six times each. Uttam Kumar Reddy and Tummala Nageswara Rao, who were elected six times from the Congress, are both ministers. In this background, Akbaruddin Owaisi was selected as the Pro-tem Speaker.

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Raja Singh: ‘I Will Not Take Oath!’

In this context, Rajasingh, who won as the BJP MLA from Goshamahal, made it clear that if the AIMIM party MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi is appointed as Pro-tem Speaker, he will not take the oath. He said that he would take oath only after the full-time Speaker of the Assembly arrived. In 2018 too, Rajasingh announced the same when AIMIM MLA Mumtaz Khan acted as the Pro-tem Speaker. After that Pocharam Srinivas Reddy became the full speaker of the assembly and took charge as an MLA.