By PTI
DEHRADUN: Senior BJP MLA Banshidhar Bhagat was on Monday appointed because the protem speaker of the Uttarakhand Assembly.
A notification on Bhagat’s appointment because the protem speaker was issued by Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Gurmit Singh.
A seven-time MLA, Bhagat gained from the Kaladhungi seat within the simply concluded state polls. He will operate because the protem speaker till a speaker is elected. The newly elected members of the state Assembly will likely be sworn in by Bhagat.
Bhagat grew to become an MLA for the primary time in 1991 when he was elected from Nainital in undivided Uttar Pradesh. He was elected from Nainital once more in 1993 and 1996, and have become a state minister. He was additionally a minister within the interim Uttarakhand authorities in 2000.
In 2007, Bhagat was elected to the Uttarakhand Assembly from Haldwani. He has been the MLA from Kaladhungi since 2012.
