Skip to main content

Bhartruhari Mahtab
Pro-tem Speaker of 18th Lok Sabha
In office
24 June 2024 – 26 June 2024
PresidentDroupadi Murmu
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded byVirendra Kumar Khatik (2019)
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
March 1998
ConstituencyCuttack
Preceded byBiju Patnaik
Personal details
Born (1957-09-08) 8 September 1957 (age 66)
Agarpada, Odisha, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (2024–present)
Other political
affiliations		Biju Janata Dal (1998–2024)
SpouseMahasweta Mahtab
Children2
ParentHarekrushna Mahatab Subhadra Mahatab
ResidenceCuttack
Alma materUtkal University
ProfessionJournalist, Politician
Source: [1]

Bhartruhari Mahtab (born 8 September 1957) is an Indian politician from Odisha. He served as the pro tem speaker of the Lok Sabha from 24th June, 2024 to 26th June, 2024 after the 2024 Indian general election.[1][2][3] He has been a member of Lok Sabha from 1998 to 2024 as member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Ahead of the 2024 elections, he quit BJD and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.[4]

Early life

Mahtab is the son of late Harekrushna Mahatab,[5] who served two times as the Chief Minister of Odisha.[6]

Career

Mahtab was a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) political party, and resigned from the BJD to join BJP on 28th March, 2024.[7] He was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998 from Cuttack constituency in Odisha. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019 from the same constituency.[8] He received the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2017.[9] He is also the recipient of Sansad Ratna Award 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 for his outstanding performance in 'Debates'.[10][11] He was appointed as the Pro-tem speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha on 20 June 2024 by the President of India under the Article 95(1) of the Constitution of India, with the office coming into effect from the first day of the sitting of the 18th Lok Sabha i.e. June 24, 2024 and served till June 26, 2024 until Om Birla has been elected as the Speaker of 18th Lok Sabha on the same day.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Who will be the pro-tem speaker of 18th Lok Sabha? What is the role in the inaugural session?".
  2. ^ "First Session of 18th Lok Sabha to be Held from 24th June to 3rd July, 2024".
  3. ^ https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/destroying-parliamentary-norms-says-congress-after-b-mahtab-appointed-pro-tem-speaker-of-18th-lok-sabha-11718937379685.html
  4. ^ "Lok Sabha Elections: Former BJD MPs Bhartruhari Mahtab, Sidhant Mohapatra Join BJP".
  5. ^ "Lok Sabha adjourned as govt wanted discussion on Antarctic bill in presence of Opposition MPs". The Economic Times.
  6. ^ "Meet Bhartruhari Mahtab, New Pro-Tem Speaker Of Lok Sabha". Zee News. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Bhartruhari Mahtab". PrsIndia.
  8. ^ "Lok Sabha". 164.100.47.132. 2012. Archived from the original on 4 December 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2012. Fifteenth Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile
  9. ^ IANS (2 August 2018). "Rajya Sabha Congratulates Best Parliamentarian Awardees". NDTV. Archived from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  10. ^ Media report
  11. ^ Pioneer, The. "Mahtab to get Sansad Ratna Award". The Pioneer. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  12. ^ "Who will be the pro-tem speaker of 18th Lok Sabha? What is the role in the inaugural session?".

External links

  • Profile on Loksabha site [2]
Party political offices
Preceded by Leader of the Biju Janata Dal Party in the 16th Lok Sabha
2014–present 		Incumbent