India, May 15 -- Rathindra Bose, BJP MLA from Cooch Behar, was elected unopposed as the Speaker of the 18th West Bengal Assembly on Friday. His name was proposed in the House by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, following which pro tem Speaker Tapas Roy conducted a voice vote.

Roy declared Bose elected as the Speaker of the Assembly after all 207 BJP legislators extended their support in his favour.

Bose created history by becoming the first legislator from the northern part of the state to hold the post.

Bose won the election from the Cooch Behar constituency by a margin of 23,284 votes (11.4 percentage points), defeating Avijit De Bhowmik of the All India Trinamool Congress.

A chartered accountant by profession, Bose brings both admi...