New Delhi: Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi does not see merit in the Congress claim for the post of the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. He cited a 1956 convention which stipulates that a party must have 10% strength in the House to stake claim to the post.
“There is no precedence where a party was given the LOP position without meeting the criteria of 10% of seats since the days of the first Lok Sabha,” Rohatgi said.
“There is political merit, there is legal merit, there’s ethic and moral merit to give the seat of opposition to the second largest party in the House. It would be keeping with the times and to deny the Congress that right would be unjust,” Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said.
The Congress hopes to make itself relevant by at least getting the LOP post which is also a Cabinet rank, but more importantly the LOP post would entitle it to be a part of the panel choosing important positions like CVC and Lokpal.
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