The Maharashtra Assembly is set to have a full-time speaker elected next week after the post fell vacant last year as the incumbent Nana Patole quit to assume the role of the state Congress president.

The Congress will get the post as per the Maha Vikas Aghadi's power sharing formula. Former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan as well as Sangram Thopte and Amin Patel are among the frontrunners. The Congress high command will declare the party’s official candidate once the notification is issued this weekend,  the poll could be held on December 28—the last day of the winter session.