Constitution of India · Part VI: The States · Officers of the State Legislature
Article 178: The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
In plain words
Every State Legislative Assembly chooses two of its members as Speaker and Deputy Speaker, and chooses replacements whenever either office falls vacant.
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Official text
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.
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the official text of the Constitution of India. As amended up to the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023. Text as on 10 September 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.