Kuldeep Sharma is new Haryana assembly speaker
March 4th, 2011 - 8:00 pm ICT by IANSChandigarh, March 4 (IANS) Congress legislator Kuldeep Sharma was unanimously elected as the 19th speaker of the Haryana assembly here Friday.
Sharma, who has been the working president of the Haryana state Congress committee since July 2007, was declared elected on the first day of the Haryana assembly budget session that started here Friday.
His name was proposed by previous speaker H.S. Chatha and seconded by state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala. Chatha had resigned from the post last month. He was inducted as a cabinet minister in the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government immediately.
A lawyer by profession from Karnal city, 140 km from here, Sharma, 54, is the son of former minister Chiranji Lal Sharma.
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