New Delhi, July 04: The BJP, which had recently seen
some open dissent in the wake of electoral defeat and
subsequent appointments in the parliamentary party, has tried
to settle its pecking order in the Lok Sabha where several of
its top leaders have been elected.
In the seating arrangement submitted to the Lok Sabha,
the party has said the Leader of the Opposition L K Advani
will take the first seat in the front row for the opposition
to the left of Deputy Speaker, who takes the first seat by
convention.
To Advani's left will be Sushma Swaraj, Deputy Leader of
the Opposition, followed by party president Rajnath Singh,
former party president Murli Manohar Joshi and then the next
senior most leader Jaswant Singh.
The seating arrangement for the BJP members in the Lok
Sabha was conveyed by Swaraj to the House Secretary General
while in the Rajya Sabha it was done by her counterpart S S
Ahluwalia.
Soon after the constitution of the House and in the
initial days there was a clamour for the front seats among the
leaders, some of whom including Ananth Kumar, have been
relegated to the second and third rows, now now that the first
row has been settled.
Bureau Report
First Published: Saturday, July 04, 2009, 19:22