NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday looked for the response of the Union federal government on a PIL declaring that today Lok Sabha, even after nearly 4 years of getting made up, has not yet chosen a member to the post of deputy speaker in offense of the required of Article 93 of the Constitution.Senior advocate Vibha D Makhija, standing for PIL petitioner Shariq Ahmed, told a bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud that assemblies of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Jharkhand have actually likewise not elected deputy speakers in infraction of the mandate of Article 178.

The bench looked for actions from the Union government within 2 weeks and requested attorney general of the United States R Venkataramani to help the court in the adjudication of this constitutional concern.

Makhija stated that typically the governing party elects the Speaker and a tradition has established because the 10th Lok Sabha to offer the post of deputy speaker to the opposition.The petitioner, an advocate who claimed to have worked as a law clerk with then CJI KG Balakrishnan in 2009-10, said the convention of deputy speakers going post to opposition celebration started with S Mallikarjunaiah of BJP in 1991, when Shivraj Patil of Congress was the Speaker.

Prior to that the governing party had both the Speaker and deputy speakers.The convention was alive till the last Lok Sabha when M Thambidurai of Congress was chosen deputy to speaker Sumitra Mahajan of BJP-led NDA.

In all these years of the convention of providing the deputy speaker post to the opposition, only P M Sayeed was elected deputy speaker 270 days after the constitution of the 12th Lok Sabha when GMC Balyogi of NDA was the Speaker.

Non-election of deputy speaker of Lok Sabha and the legislative assemblies breaks the healthy democratic functioning.

There is no statutory requirement, nevertheless, a healthy custom has actually established over a time that the governing celebration chooses the Speaker while the deputy speaker post is given to the opposition, the petitioner stated and demanded an instructions to the Lok Sabha secretariat and state assemblies to bring out elections for the post of deputy speakers.