Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Aug. 23 (ANI): Reiterating her stand of not giving the Leader of Opposition (LoP) post to the Congress Party, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Saturday said the former does not have the required one-tenth strength of members in the lower house of Parliament. “The fact that as a Speaker I have taken the decision not to give the Leader of Opposition post to the opposition is based on certain rules…. There are certain norms for recognition of Leader of Opposition… an opposition party must have 1/10 strength of the Lok Sabha to stake claim for that post,” Mahajan said. So, we can’t give them the Leader of Opposition post. Moreover, the Congress has only 44 seats and is not fulfilling 1/10 of the required strength,” she added.
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