Question: Former Lok Sabha speaker Rabi Ray who recently passed away, was elected Speaker of the … Lok Sabha.
(a) 9th
(b) 2nd
(c) 5th
(d) 7th
Ans: (a)
Related Fact :
- On 6th March, 2017, noted socialist leader and former Lok Sabha speaker Rabi Ray passed away due to age-related ailments at SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack. He was 90.
- He was born at Bhanragarh village in Khurda district of Odisha on November 26, 1926.
- Ray was elected to the 4th Lok Sabha from Puri in Odisha in 1967.
- Mr. Ray was the union minister of health and family welfare in the Morarji Desai ministry from January 1979 to January 1980.
- On December 19, 1989, he was unanimously elected as Speaker of the 9th Lok Sabha from 1989-1991. He was also a former chairman of Common Wealth Speakers’ Forum.
Reference:
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/former-ls-speaker-rabi-ray-passes-away-4557151/