Article 93

Part V — The Union · Constitution of India

Article 93

The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of the People. The House of the People shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the House to be respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker thereof and, so often as the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, the House shall choose another member to be Speaker or Deputy Speaker, as the case may be.

In plain wordsLok Sabha members choose two of their own as Speaker and Deputy Speaker, and elect replacements whenever either post falls vacant. The referee of India's directly elected House is picked by the House itself, not by the government.

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