'Unfortunate that Kamal Nath talks about going to court on LoP issue'
July 07, 2014  10:34
Briefing the media on the all-party meet ahead of the Budget session, senior BJP leader and Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said, "No one raised the issue of the Leader of Opposition."

He added, "It is unfortunate that Kamal Nath talks about going to court on the issue."

With no clarity on the Congress getting the LoP status in Lok Sabha, the senior leader had said the party "must" go to court if Speaker Sumitra Mahajan's decision, which could be "flavoured" by the Bharatiya Janata Party and Narendra Modi, went against it.

Insisting that there is no rule, which says that a party cannot get LoP status unless it has 10 per cent of the total strength of the 543-member Lok Sabha, the former parliamentary affairs minister said in Delhi that while a Speaker is generally neutral when it comes to dealing with Parliamentary processes, it may be different in a contentious situation. 
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