List of speakers of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly

The speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of the state of Rajasthan, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Rajasthan. He is elected by the members of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. The speaker is always a member of the Legislative Assembly. Ram Niwas Mirdha is the longest serving speaker for a period of ten years while Sumitra Singh is the first women speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly.

List of speakers of Rajasthan

#	Portrait	Name	Tenure			Assembly	Party
1		Narottam Lal Joshi	31 March 1952	25 April 1957	Template:Ayd	1st	Indian National Congress	rowspan="5" Template:Party color cell
2	File:Shri Ram Niwas Mirdha (cropped).jpeg	Ram Niwas Mirdha	25 April 1957	3 May 1967	Template:Ayd	2nd
						3rd
3		Niranjan Nath Acharya	3 May 1967	20 March 1972	Template:Ayd	4th
4		Ram Kishore Vyas	20 March 1972	18 July 1977	Template:Ayd	5th
5		Laxman Singh	18 July 1977	20 June 1979	Template:Ayd	6th	Janata Party	rowspan="2" Template:Party color cell
6		Raja Gopal Singh	25 September 1979	7 July 1980	Template:Ayd
7		Poonam Chand Vishnoi	7 July 1980	20 March 1985	Template:Ayd	7th	Indian National Congress	rowspan="3" Template:Party color cell
8		Hira Lal Devpura	20 March 1985	16 October 1985	Template:Ayd	8th
9		Giriraj Prasad Tiwari	31 January 1986	11 March 1990	Template:Ayd
10		Hari Shankar Bhabhra	16 March 1990	21 December 1993	Template:Ayd	9th	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan="4" Template:Party color cell
			30 December 1993	5 October 1994		10th
11		Shanti Lal Chaplot	7 April 1995	18 March 1998	Template:Ayd
12		Samrath Lal Meena	24 July 1998	4 January 1999	Template:Ayd
13	File:PRMaderna.jpg	Parasram Maderna	6 January 1999	15 January 2004	Template:Ayd	11th	Indian National Congress	Template:Party color cell
14		Sumitra Singh	16 January 2004	1 January 2009	Template:Ayd	12th	Bharatiya Janata Party	Template:Party color cell
15		Deependra Singh Shekhawat	2 January 2009	20 January 2014	Template:Ayd	13th	Indian National Congress	Template:Party color cell
16		Kailash Chandra Meghwal	22 January 2014	15 January 2019	Template:Ayd	14th	Bharatiya Janata Party	Template:Party color cell
17		C. P. Joshi	16 January 2019	20 December 2023	Template:Ayd	15th	Indian National Congress	Template:Party color cell
18		Vasudev Devnani	21 December 2023	Incumbent	Template:Ayd	16th	Bharatiya Janata Party	Template:Party color cell

References

• Former Speakers of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
• RAJASTHAN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY