Madhya Pradesh assembly session to begin today

Bhopal: The four-day session of the Madhya Pradesh assembly will begin today. The session will end on the 21st of this month. 

This is the first session of the 16th assembly of Madhya Pradesh which will commence at 11 am today. During the first two days, the newly elected MLAs will be administered the oath, while the house will also elect the speaker during the session. Former Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar



will become the speaker.

Meanwhile, the Governor Mangu Bhai Patel already appointed Gopal Bhargava, the senior-most MLA of the ruling BJP, as the Protem speaker to conduct the business of the house.

In last month's assembly elections, the BJP bagged 163 of the 230 assembly seats, while Congress won 66 seats, and one seat was won by the Bharat Adivasi Party.