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Lok Sabha seating – only two in front row for the Congress

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New Delhi:  Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has reportedly completed the task of allotting seats to the MPs of the 16th Lok Sabha after days of consultations and in the final tally, despite their request for four seats, the  Congress will have only two front row seats and will have to share benches with the Left and smaller parties like the Aam Aadmi Party in the new Lok Sabha.

These two leaders from the congress depleted numbers are party president Sonia Gandhi and Lok Sabha leader, Mallikarjuna Kharge. Rahul Gandhi had occupied a front seat during the budget presentation. The Congress had reportedly asked for four seats in the front row, which is seen as a status symbol, but numerically, it only qualified for two.

J Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK with 37 MPs, the Trinamool Congress with 34 and the BJD are the largest teams in the house after the Congress which has 44 seats. Five parties reportedly refused seating arrangements next to the Congress – The AIADMK, Trinamool Congress, Biju Janata Dal, Telangana Rashtra Samiti and the YSR Congress allegedly said that their political positioning is equidistant from the BJP and the Congress and that must be reflected in the way they are seated.

Seniority and stature have got Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav  and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda of the Janata Dal (Secular) front row seats.

The BJP-led coalition, which has 330-plus seats in the Lok Sabha, has been allotted 12 seats in the front row. These will be occupied, among others, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his top ministers, and BJP veteran LK Advani.

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