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Bihar Vidhansabha Speaker List: Senior BJP MLA Dr. Prem Kumar has been unanimously elected Speaker of Bihar Assembly. With his selection, Bihar Assembly has got the 19th speaker. With the election of Prem Kumar as the President, this post has once again gone into the hands of a politician whose political experience is long and his parliamentary career is considered spotless.
Patna. Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Prem Kumar was elected Speaker of the 18th Bihar Assembly on Tuesday. Protem Speaker Narendra Narayan Yadav said that Prem Kumar was the only candidate for the post of Speaker, and he was declared elected unanimously by voice vote. Congratulating Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, he said that this is a positive sign for the Bihar Assembly, which will further strengthen the democratic process of the state. After independence in 1947, Premkumar is the 18th name to sit on the chair of the Assembly Speaker. However, even before this in 1937, Ramdayalu Singh was elected Speaker of Bihar Assembly. Let us tell you that Prem Kumar has been in active politics since 1990 and will now take the responsibility of running the assembly sessions smoothly and taking impartial decisions on the bills.
List of Assembly Speakers so far
| speaker of the assembly | since when | Till when | tenure period |
| Shri Ram Dayalu Singh | 23 July 1937 | 11 November 1944 | about 7.5 years |
| Vindhyashwari Prasad Verma | 25 April 1946 | 14 March 1962 | about 16 years |
| Dr. Lakshmi Narayan Sudhanshu | 15 March 1962 | 15 March 1967 | about 05 years |
| Dhanik Lal Mandal | 16 March 1967 | 10 March 1969 | about 02 years |
| Ram Narayan Mandal | 11 March 1969 | 20 March 1972 | about 03 years |
| Harinath Mishra | 21 March 1972 | 26 June 1977 | about 05 years |
| Tripurari Prasad Singh | 28 June 1977 | 22 June 1980 | about 03 years |
| Radhanandan Jha | 24 June 1980 | 01 April 1985 | about 05 years |
| Shivchandra Jha | 04 April 1985 | 23 January 1989 | about 04 years |
| Mohammad Himayatullah Khan | 27 March 1989 | 19 March 1990 | about 01 year |
| Ghulam Sarwar | 20 March 1990 | 09 April 1995 | about 05 years |
| Dev Narayan Yadav | 12 April 1995 | 06 March 2000 | about 05 years |
| Shri Sadanand Singh | 30 November 2005 | 28 November 2015 | about 05 years |
| Uday Narayan Chaudhary | 30 November 2005 | 28 November 2015 | about 05 years |
| Vijay Kumar Chaudhary | 02 December 2015 | 15 November 2020 | about 05 years |
| Vijay Kumar Sinha | 25 November 2020 | 24 August 2022 | about 2,5 years |
| Awadh Bihari Chaudhary | 26 August 2022 | 12 February 2024 | about 2.5 and a half years |
| Nand Kishore Yadav | 16 February 2024 | 19 November 2025 | about 1,5 years |
| Prem Kumar | 02 December 2025 | So far | term continues |
Know Prem Kumar
Dr. Prem Kumar is an experienced politician who has been elected MLA nine consecutive times since 1990. He has become MLA in the years 1995, 2000, 2005 (February and October), 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2025. He has a special identity among the leaders of extremely backward classes. Prem Kumar, a PhD holder from Magadh University, was also the leader of the opposition party from 2015 to 2017. Let us tell you that Prem Kumar has also come into politics from JP movement like Lalu Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Sushil Modi, Ravi Shankar Prasaj. Has been minister of more than 10 departments in different periods. He has been a cabinet minister of different departments from 2005, 2010, 2017, 2020 and 2020 to 2024.
Prem Kumar’s challenge
Prem Kumar’s unanimous election is being considered as an indication that this time instead of confrontation in the House, priority will be given to dialogue, debate and the dignity of the House. Now everyone’s eyes are on what role he will play in this historical list.
