bhopal the threeday session of madhya pradesh assembly beginning from september 21 is likely to witness a show of strength among the congress and the ruling bjp as the house will elect the speaker and deputy speaker after the resignation of 22 mlas sources in the bjp disclosed that the party being in majority in the house is all set to field candidates for both the postsit was in january last year when the mp assembly elected narmada prasad prajapati as the speaker and also witnessed voting for the election of deputy speaker of the house as both the parties had fielded candidates congress had fielded hina kavre a second term mla from lanji balaghat while the bjp fielded senior mla from malhargarh mandsaur leader jagdish devra who is now finance minister of mpbeing in majority congress won the deputy speaker election breaking the old tradition to offer the chair to the opposition party during the election of speaker the bjp had walked out in protest from the house over the protem speakers refusal to let it propose the name of its nominee for which the party had planned to field vijay shah now the same tradition will be followed and being in majority bjp will keep both the posts with itselfi am not aware what the party leadership would decide on both the posts but here the congress is responsible for breaking the tradition in chhattisgarh after the congress government led by the then chief minister ajit jogi had changed the tradition the successive bjp government led by the then chief minister raman singh won both the posts of speaker and deputy speaker in the house in mp the final decision lies with the party leadership observed former mp speaker sitasaran sharmathe congress has however decided not to open its cards during our government in the state the bjp had fielded a candidate for the post of speaker breaking the tradition hence we decided not to offer the post of deputy speaker to the saffron party now in the present situation we will decide on the issue at the right time said former public relations minister pc sharmaat present in the 230member house the total strength of legislators is 203 as 27 seats are vacant following the resignation and demise of some members bjp has the majority strength with 107 members with congress reduced to 89 from 114 in 2018 assembly elections there are four independents two bahujan samaj party bsp and one samajwadi party sp mlas in the housenames doing rounds for the post of speaker include former speaker sitasaran sharma who is an undisputed choice in the party former minister nagendra singh nagod and senior mlas kedra shukla and girish gautam from vindhya region could also be elevated to the coveted post the bjp may also field pro tem speaker rameshwar sharma for the post of deputy speaker said sourcesas per assembly secretariat the house will witness three sittings of which proceedings of the house will be