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List of speakers of the Assam Legislative Assembly

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{{Short description|Speakers and deputy speakers of the assan Legislative Assembly}}

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{{Infobox official post

| post = Speaker

| body = the Assam Legislative Assembly

| insignia = File:Seal of Assam.svg

| insigniacaption = Seal of Assam

| department = Assam Legislative Assembly

| member_of = Assam Legislative Assembly

| appointer = Members of the Legislative Assembly

| incumbent = Biswajit Daimary

| inaugural =

| incumbentsince = 21 May 2021

| termlength = During the life of the Tripura Legislative Assembly (five years maximum)

| image = Jitendra Singh receiving a memorandum from a delegation of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) led by the Member of Parliament, Shri Biswajit Daimary, in New Delhi (cropped).jpg

| style = The Hon’ble {{small|(formal)}}
Mr. Speaker {{small|(informal)}}

| reports_to = Government of Assam

| residence =

| deputy = List of deputy speakers of the Assam Legislative Assembly

}}

The following is a list of the Speakers of the Assam Legislative Assembly,{{cite web|title=List of Speakers since 1937|url=http://assamassembly.gov.in/speaker-list.html|website=Assamassembly.gov.in|access-date=9 December 2010}} and their deputies.

Speakers of the Assembly

=Assam Province=

class="wikitable"
#Name

!Portrait

Took officeLeft office

!Party

1Babu Basanta Kumar Das

|

7 April 193711 March 1946

| rowspan="3" |Indian National Congress

2Debeswar Sarmah

|

12 March 194610 October 1947
3Laksheswar Borooah (INC)

|

5 November 19473 March 1952

=Assam State=

class="wikitable"
#Name

!Portrait

Took officeLeft officePolitical Party
1Kuladhar Chaliha

|File:Kuladhar_Chaliha_1988_stamp_of_India.jpg

5 March 19527 June 1957rowspan="6" | Indian National Congress
2Devakanta Barua

|File:Dev_Kant_Baruah.jpg

8 June 195715 September 1959
3Mahendra Mohan Choudhury

| File:Statue_of_Mahendra_Mohan_Choudhury.jpg

9 December 195919 March 1967
4Hareswar Goswami

|

20 March 196710 May 1968
5Mahi Kanta Das

|

27 August 196821 March 1972
6Ramesh Chandra Barooah

|

22 March 197220 March 1978
7Jogendra Nath Hazarika

| File:Jogendra_Nath_Hazarika_Lok_Sabha_photo.jpg

21 March 19784 September 1979Janata Party
8Sheikh Chand Mohammad

|

7 November 19797 January 1986Indian National Congress
9Pulakesh Barua

| File:Pulakesh Barua politician assam (cropped).jpg

9 January 198627 July 1991Asom Gana Parishad
10Jiba Kanta Gogoi

|

29 July 19919 December 1992rowspan="2" | Indian National Congress
11Debesh Chandra Chakravorty

|

21 December 199211 June 1996
12Ganesh Kutum

|

12 June 199624 May 2001Asom Gana Parishad
13Prithibi Majhi

| File:The Minister for Labour and Employment, Revenue and Disaster Management, Assam, Shri Prithibi Majhi addressing at the Public Information Campaign on Bharat Nirman, organized by Press Information Bureau, Guwahati (cropped).jpg

30 May 200119 May 2006rowspan="2" | Indian National Congress
14Tanka Bahadur Rai

|File:Tanka_Bahadur_Rai.jpg

29 May 200619 May 2011
15Pranab Kumar Gogoi{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110607/jsp/frontpage/story_14080104.jsp|title=Members of 13th Assembly sworn in - Pranab Gogoi elected Assam Speaker|work=The Telegraph|access-date=19 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616143436/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1110607/jsp/frontpage/story_14080104.jsp|archive-date=16 June 2011|date=7 June 2011}}

|File:Speaker_of_Assam_Legislative_Assembly,_Shri_Pranab_Kumar_Gogoi_at_the_Platinum_Jubilee_Celebrations_of_Assam_Legislative_Assembly,_in_Guwahati,_Assam._(cropped).jpg

6 June 201119 May 2016Indian National Congress
16Ranjit Kumar Das

|

1 June 201630 January 2017rowspan="3" | Bharatiya Janata Party
17Hitendra Nath Goswami

| File:Hitendra Nath Goswami (cropped).jpg

30 January 201720 May 2021
18Biswajit Daimary

|File:Jitendra_Singh_receiving_a_memorandum_from_a_delegation_of_Bodoland_Territorial_Council_(BTC)_led_by_the_Member_of_Parliament,_Shri_Biswajit_Daimary,_in_New_Delhi_(cropped).jpg

21 May 2021Present

Deputy speakers of the Assembly

The following is a list of the deputy speakers of the assembly.{{Cite web |date=28 August 2021 |title=List of Deputy Speakers since 1937 |url=http://assamassembly.gov.in/dyspeaker-list.html |access-date=4 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210828212623/http://assamassembly.gov.in/dyspeaker-list.html |archive-date=28 August 2021 }}

class="wikitable"
#NameTook officeLeft office
1Moulvi Muhammad Amiruddin

| 7 April 1937

1946
2Bonily Khongmen14 March 1946
3R.N. Baruah

| 6 March 1952

1 April 1957
4R.N. Baruah

| 10 June 1957

28 February 1962
5D. Hazarika

| 31 March 1962

28 February 1967
6M.K. Das

| 31 March 1967

26 August 1968
7A. Rahman

| 20 September 1968

9 November 1970
8J. Saikia

| 13 November 1970

9 June 1971
9R.N. Sen

| 24 May 1971

14 March 1972
10Golok Rajbanshi

| 6 April 1972

3 March 1978
11Sheikh Chand Mohammad

| 30 March 1978

6 November 1979
12G. Ahmed

| 13 November 1979

19 March 1982
13N.C. Kath Hazarika

| 25 March 1983

18 August 1985
14Bhadreswar Buragohain1 April 198610 April 1990
15Balobhadra Tamuli22 October 19908 January 1991
16Debesh Chakraborty1 August 199120 December 1992
17Prithibi Mahji23 March 199311 May 1996
18Nurul Hussain

| 13 June 1996

18 August 1998
19

|Renupoma Rajkhowa

|14 May 1991

|17 May 2001

20

|Tanka Bahadur Rai

|3 April 2002

|14 May 2006

21

|Pranati Phukan

|31 May 2006

|16 May 2011

22

|Bhimananda Tanti

|6 June 2011

|19 May 2016

23

|Dilip Kumar Paul

|3 June 2016

|8 May 2018

24

|Kripanath Mallah

|26 September 2018

|4 June 2019

25

|Aminul Haque Laskar

|31 July 2019

|2 May 2021

26

|Numal Momin

|21 May 2021

|Present

Pro tem Speaker

= List of Pro tem Speakers =

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