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Karnataka Assembly will get its first Speaker from the Muslim community when Congress MLA from Mangaluru UT Khader is formally elected for the position on Wednesday...
Khader, 54, a four-time MLA from Mangaluru, is a low-profile Congressman from coastal Karnataka with the past experience of working as a minister in charge of health and urban development portfolios...
He filed the nomination for the post on Tuesday, and his election is only a formality as the ruling party has 135 members in the 224-member assembly..
In 2018, he emerged as the only Congress candidate to win the election out of the 13 assembly seats in the erstwhile undivided Dakshina Kannada district..
Mangaluru is one of the 19 constituencies in coastal Karnataka region - an area where the Congress fared poorly, despite winning a resounding majority of 135 seats in the state..
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