Akbaruddin Owaisi takes oath as Protem Speaker of Telangana Assembly

Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi on Saturday took oath as the pro tempore speaker of the recently elected Telangana state legislative assembly. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan administered the oath at a ceremony at the Raj Bhavan, which was attended by Minister Principal A Revanth Reddy and former Assembly Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy. Owaisi, who took oath in the name of Allah, will later administer oath to the newly elected members of the House. Ministers D Sridhar Babu, Tummala Nageswara Rao, Seethakka, former minister and BRS leader T Harish Rao and others attended the function. According to a notification issued by the Governor, Owaisi will perform the functions of Portwoz until he is elected Portwoz under Article 178 of the Constitution of India. However, the senior ranking member of the assembly, the AIMIM MLA, has been named the protem speaker. In the recently concluded assembly elections, he was elected from Chandrayangutta constituency of Hyderabad for the sixth consecutive time. This is the second consecutive time that an AIMIM MLA has been appointed Portavoz Protem. In 2018, Mumtaz Ahmed Khan was named temporary president.