<p class="title">First-time MLA Aminul Haque Laskar of the BJP was elected unopposed as the deputy speaker of the Assam Assembly on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Laskar, the sole Muslim member of the ruling BJP in the House, was elected from Sonai constituency in Barak Valley's Cachar district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Speaker H N Goswami announced that Laskar was the only candidate to file the nomination papers for the post and he was elected without contest.</p>.<p>Laskar is the third person to be elected as the deputy speaker in the present Assembly after the BJP government to power in 2016 in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The post of deputy speaker fell vacant following the election of the BJP's Kripanath Mallah as Lok Sabha MP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mallah was unanimously elected to the post on September 18 after Dilip Kumar Paul resigned citing personal reasons.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Laskar thanked Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Speaker H N Goswami, his party colleagues and opposition members for reposing faith and confidence in him.</p>
<p class="title">First-time MLA Aminul Haque Laskar of the BJP was elected unopposed as the deputy speaker of the Assam Assembly on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Laskar, the sole Muslim member of the ruling BJP in the House, was elected from Sonai constituency in Barak Valley's Cachar district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Speaker H N Goswami announced that Laskar was the only candidate to file the nomination papers for the post and he was elected without contest.</p>.<p>Laskar is the third person to be elected as the deputy speaker in the present Assembly after the BJP government to power in 2016 in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The post of deputy speaker fell vacant following the election of the BJP's Kripanath Mallah as Lok Sabha MP.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mallah was unanimously elected to the post on September 18 after Dilip Kumar Paul resigned citing personal reasons.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Laskar thanked Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Speaker H N Goswami, his party colleagues and opposition members for reposing faith and confidence in him.</p>