Acting Speaker Ramapati Shastri announced the unopposed election of Satish Mahana on Tuesday.
Lucknow, Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Satish Mahana was declared elected unopposed Speaker for the 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Acting Speaker Ramapati Shastri announced the unopposed election of Satish Mahana on Tuesday. He told the House that only Satish Mahana’s nomination paper was eligible for the post of Speaker of the Assembly and if it is valid, I declare his election.
Governor Anandiben Patel had fixed March 29 as the date for the election of the Speaker. By 2 o’clock on Monday, March 28, the process of nomination for the post of Speaker was to be completed and Satish Mahana alone had filled the form. Leader of the House Yogi Adityanath had proposed Mahana’s name for the post of Speaker, which was supported by Suresh Khanna. Apart from this, Leader of Opposition Akhilesh Yadav also proposed Mahana’s name and Awadhesh Prasad of SP had supported it.
Apart from Raghuraj Pratap Singh of Jansatta Dal Loktantrik and Aradhana Mishra of Congress, along with the ruling party, opposition parties also proposed and supported Mahana’s name. His election was declared unopposed in the assembly on Tuesday. Mahana has been elected for the eighth time from the Maharajpur assembly seat of Kanpur district.
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Mahana (Satish Mahana) was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1991 and after that he continued to maintain his presence in the Vidhan Sabha. Apart from the Minister of State for Urban Development in the Mayawati-led government of the BSP-BJP alliance, he has also been a minister in the governments led by Kalyan Singh, Ram Prakash Gupta and Rajnath Singh. He was the industrial development minister in the Yogi Adityanath-led government in the previous assembly.
According to the website of the Vidhan Sabha, Satish Mahana, born on 14 October 1960 in Kanpur to Ram Avtar Mahana, is a Khatri originally from Punjab and a follower of Hinduism. Mahana, who is associated with the business of Agriculture, Builders and Developers, has completed her graduation. With a keen interest in public service, reading, tourism and music, Mahana has traveled to the US, France, UK, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Austria, China, Japan, Switzerland, and Australia in almost Have visited 35 countries.
Mahana has also been a member of the Estimates Committee, Rules Committee, Question and Reference Committees in the Vidhan Sabha. Mahana has also gone to jail in mass movements. He has been jailed in the movement in the years 1990, 1992 and 1994. It is noteworthy that the results of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, which were held in seven phases, were declared on March 10.
In the 403-member assembly, this time 255 members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, 12 of its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) and six members of the Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal (Nishad) have been elected. The state’s main opposition Samajwadi Party has 111 elected and its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal eight and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party six members have been elected. Apart from this, the Congress has two members, the Jansatta Dal Loktantrik two and the Bahujan Samaj Party has one member. This time there is not a single independent member in the assembly. (agency)