Dr. Bal Ram Jakhar has the qualification of starting his vocation in the Parliament by possessing the workplace of the Speaker instantly after his race to the Seventh Lok Sabha out of the blue. He additionally has the uncommon respect of having been picked collectively to direct two progressive Lok Sabha for their full terms. An agriculturist turned legislator, Jakhar lived completely up to the difficulties of the august office and directed the matter of the House with most extreme nobility, decency, and objectivity. He surrendered the workplace of the Speaker in 1989, just to keep on playing a functioning part in the Party he has a place with and through it in the nation's socio-political life.

Bal Ram Jakhar was conceived on 23 August 1923 at Panjkosi town in the Ferozepur locale of the State of Punjab. He had a splendid scholarly vocation. He graduated in 1945 from the Forman Christian College, Lahore with Honors in Sanskrit. He is basically a language specialist, being knowledgeable in English, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi. Jakhar is basically an agriculturist, all the more especially an orchardist. After graduation, he embraced the family calling of cultivating and made utilization of modem procedures for the improvement of plantations and vineyards in his farmlands. Through long periods of hard work, the prevailing with regards to changing over age-old and desolate grounds into green knolls and prospering plantations and vineyards, raising the yields complex.
Jakhar's authoritative vocation started in 1972 when he was chosen to the Legislative Assembly of Punjab. Inside multi-year of his race to the Assembly, he was drafted into the Council of Ministers as the Deputy Minister of Co-task, Irrigation, and Power. He remained a Minister till 1977. On being re-chosen to the Assembly in 1977, he was picked as the Leader of the Congress (1) Legislature Party and in that limit was perceived as the Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, a position he held till January 1980 when he was chosen to the Seventh Lok Sabha from the Ferozepur parliamentary supporters. Through his dynamic part in the undertakings of Punjab as a political lobbyist, lawmaker, Minister and as the Leader of the Opposition, Jakhar had officially turned out to be a reasonable and capable chairman.
Jakhar was chosen the Speaker of the Seventh Lok Sabha on 22 January 1980. Despite the fact that Jakhar did not have any past involvement as a Presiding Officer, he was totally unperturbed about the colossal obligation provide a reason to feel ambiguous about him in his new part. With a reasonable part observation, with trust in himself and with his natural presence of mind, Jakhar continued releasing his obligations as the Presiding Officer of the House. He knew that the workplace of the Speaker assumed a vital part in the smooth and successful working of the House of the People spoke to by individuals with differing semantic, social, religious, territorial and socio-political foundations.
Jakhar's decade-long spell as the Speaker of the Seventh and the Eighth Lok Sabhas was striking from various perspectives. From the start, he stayed caution in ensuring the rights and benefits of the individuals exclusively and of the House all in all. He once decided that any officer of the Government ousting before a Parliamentary Committee was ensured by the benefits of the House. So also, however, he regarded the part of the Judiciary in a vote based system, he held that every organ of the Government should act just inside the domain distributed to each by the Constitution, each regarding the rights and benefits of the other. In like manner, in November 1987, Jakhar decided that courts can't force the Speakers to introduce themselves under the watchful eye of the courts with regards to what is seen as their oversights and payments identifying with the working of Parliament.