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Article 178

Part VI — The States · Constitution of India

Article 178

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

In plain wordsEach state Assembly picks two of its own members as Speaker and Deputy Speaker, the officers who run its sittings, and fills those posts again whenever they fall vacant.
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