The deputy chairperson is next to the

Chairperson The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a Board of directors, board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by ...

, who is the presiding officer of the

Karnataka Legislative Council The Karnataka Legislative Council (formerly the Mysore Legislative Council) is the upper house of the state legislature of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of six Indian states with a bicameral legislature; the Legislative Assembly is the lower ho ...

, the main law-making body for the Indian state of

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

.Rao, C. Hayavadana (ed.). (1929). ''Mysore Gazetteer'', Vol. IV, Bangalore: Government Press, pp.96-7. The deputy is elected by the members of the Karnataka Legislative Council (until 1973, the

Mysore Mysore ( ), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of Mysore district and Mysore division. As the traditional seat of the Wadiyar dynasty, the city functioned as the capital of the ...

Legislative Council). The deputy chairperson is usually a member of the Legislative Council.

List of deputy chairpersons

Mysore was renamed to Karnataka on 1 November 1973.

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External links

Speaker's list on onlinebangalore.com
Karnataka Legislative Council Karnataka politics-related lists Deputy chairpersons of Karnataka Legislative Council

List of deputy chairpersons

See also

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