{"id":313418,"date":"2019-06-18T05:24:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T05:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313418"},"modified":"2019-06-18T06:09:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T06:09:32","slug":"bjp-mp-from-kota-om-birla-set-to-be-next-lok-sabha-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-mp-from-kota-om-birla-set-to-be-next-lok-sabha-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP MP from Kota Om Birla set to be next Lok Sabha speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313419 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/om-birla-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/om-birla-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/om-birla.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP)from Kota, Om Birla, is set to be the Speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha as the Budget session of the Lower House of Parliament\u00a0enters day 2 on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Birla\u00a0is a two-time MP from Kota and a three-time MLA from the\u00a0Kota South Assembly seat. He defeated Congress\u2019 Ramnarain Meena in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections with a huge margin of over 2.5 lakh votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He will succeed Sumitra Mahajan for the post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Virendra Kumar who was sworn in as Pro-Tem Speaker by President Ramnath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan had on Monday administered oath of office to newly elected MPs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP)from Kota, Om Birla, is set to be the Speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha as the Budget session of the Lower House of Parliament\u00a0enters day 2 on Tuesday. Birla\u00a0is a two-time MP from Kota and a three-time MLA from the\u00a0Kota South Assembly seat. He defeated Congress\u2019 Ramnarain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[453,11507,11508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313424,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313418\/revisions\/313424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}