Om Birla has been elected as the Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha in an election which took place for the first time after two decades. The election was necessitated after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA and the opposition's INDIA bloc failed to reach a consensus over the post of Speaker and Deputy Speaker in the House.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi moved the moved the motion in favour of Om Birla, backed by Union minister Rajnath Singh.
On Tuesday, Union minister Rajnath Singh reached out to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge in a bid to build the consensus but the talks yielded no result.
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