New Delhi [India], Ahead of the start of the first Parliament session after the end of the Lok Sabha, the Samajwadi Party (SP) will convene an important meeting of its MPs tomorrow at 10 am at the Parliamentary Party Office at Parliament House in Delhi. Lok Sabha elections 2024, sources said.
The meeting will be chaired by party president Akhilesh Yadav.
The party will prepare a strategy for the Parliament session and the upcoming Lok Sabha Speaker election to be held on June 26.
Meanwhile, BJP MP Bhartrihari Mahtab, who has been appointed pro tem speaker, will administer the oath to the newly elected members and monitor the proceedings of the House.
However, the Congress has reacted sharply to the Centre's decision to appoint seven-time BJP MP Bhartrihari Mahtab as the pro-tem Speaker of the Lok Sabha in place of Congress's senior-most Dalit MP Kodikunnil Suresh, saying the appointment by the BJP, Wanders. The traditional practice of appointing the senior member.
Earlier on Thursday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju announced that President Draupadi Murmu has appointed BJP MP Bhartrihari Mahtab as Protem Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha.
President Murmu also appointed Suresh Kodikunnil, Thalikottai Rajutevar Balu, Radha Mohan Singh, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Sudip Bandyopadhyay to assist the Pro Tem Speaker in the swearing-in of the newly elected members.
This is the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha after the general elections, in which the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) got 293 seats and the India Bloc got 234 seats.
The session of Rajya Sabha will start from June 27.
The meeting will be chaired by party president Akhilesh Yadav.
The party will prepare a strategy for the Parliament session and the upcoming Lok Sabha Speaker election to be held on June 26.
Meanwhile, BJP MP Bhartrihari Mahtab, who has been appointed pro tem speaker, will administer the oath to the newly elected members and monitor the proceedings of the House.
However, the Congress has reacted sharply to the Centre's decision to appoint seven-time BJP MP Bhartrihari Mahtab as the pro-tem Speaker of the Lok Sabha in place of Congress's senior-most Dalit MP Kodikunnil Suresh, saying the appointment by the BJP, Wanders. The traditional practice of appointing the senior member.
Earlier on Thursday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju announced that President Draupadi Murmu has appointed BJP MP Bhartrihari Mahtab as Protem Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha.
President Murmu also appointed Suresh Kodikunnil, Thalikottai Rajutevar Balu, Radha Mohan Singh, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Sudip Bandyopadhyay to assist the Pro Tem Speaker in the swearing-in of the newly elected members.
This is the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha after the general elections, in which the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) got 293 seats and the India Bloc got 234 seats.
The session of Rajya Sabha will start from June 27.
