New Delhi: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi will be the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. Giving information about this, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said on Tuesday that Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) President Sonia Gandhi (Sonia Gandhi ) has written a letter to ‘Protem Speaker’ Bhartruhari Mahtab and informed that Rahul Gandhi will be the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. Venugopal said that a decision was taken in this regard in the meeting of the leaders of the constituent parties of the ‘I.N.D.I.A.’ alliance. Let us tell you that NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar had already said that Congress will decide about the appointment of the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha because Congress has the highest number of MPs in the I.N.D.I.A. alliance.
The lower house will get the leader of the opposition after 10 years
Let us tell you that with the increase in the number of seats of the constituent parties of the ‘I.N.D.I.A.’ alliance in the current Lok Sabha elections, the lower house will get the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the form of Rahul Gandhi after 10 years, along with this the opposition leaders also hope that soon there will be an election for the post of Deputy Speaker. The post of Deputy Speaker is usually given to the opposition camp. Let us tell you that the post of Deputy Speaker is vacant in the Lok Sabha for the last 5 years. The 17th Lok Sabha, which was dissolved on June 5, did not get any Deputy Speaker for its entire term and this was the second consecutive term of the lower house, in which there was no Leader of Opposition.
Rahul Gandhi took oath keeping a copy of the Constitution with him
Let us tell you that this time Rahul Gandhi has been elected from Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency of Uttar Pradesh. Let us tell you that before this he has represented Wayanad in Kerala and Amethi in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha. He took oath as a Lok Sabha member on Tuesday. During this, he also kept a copy of the Constitution with him. After taking oath in English, he also raised the slogan ‘Jai Hind, Jai Samvidhaan’. When Rahul Gandhi’s name was called for oath, the Congress members stood up from their seats and started raising slogans of ‘Jodo Jodo, Bharat Jodo’.