Maharashtra Legislative Assembly will get Deputy Speaker after the longest gap of four years, with the election for the vacant constitutional post being announced today. The election will be held on November 30.<br />'' <br />''While Announcing the schedule, Assembly Speaker Haribhau Bagde said that the process of filing of nominations will begin today itself and scrutiny of papers will be done tomorrow. The nominations can be withdrawn by 10.30 AM on Friday, November 30.<br />'' <br />''The 13th Assembly would have gone down into history as the one without a deputy speaker for the longest gap of period had the elections been not announced. Vasant Purke of the Congress was the last deputy speaker before 2014. He had held the post in the previous assembly.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">However, the post has been lying vacant since the last four years after the Bhartiya Janata Party government led by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis assumed office on October 31, 2014 and won the trust vote on November 12.</span>