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Article 182

Part VI — The States · Constitution of India

Article 182

The Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council. The Legislative Council of every State having such Council shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the Council to be respectively Chairman and Deputy Chairman thereof and, so often as the office of Chairman or Deputy Chairman becomes vacant, the Council shall choose another member to be Chairman or Deputy Chairman, as the case may be.

In plain wordsIn states with an upper house, the Legislative Council elects two of its members as Chairman and Deputy Chairman to preside over its sittings, refilling the posts whenever they fall vacant.
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