Ayodhya MP Moved Back From LS Front Row, Now Seated With Dimple Yadav; Akhilesh Yadav Unhappy

The SP was expecting Congress to consult the seat allocation arrangement with the allies before informing the Speaker. Ayodhya MP has been shifted to the second row along with Mainpuri MP Dimple Yadav

Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party MPs Akhilesh Yadav, Awadhesh Prasad and Dimple Yadav, NCP MP Supriya Sule and Congress MP K Suresh in the House during the first day of the Parliament session in New Delhi.

Source : PTI

Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav is unhappy with the latest seating arrangement in the Lok Sabha. Ayodhya MP Awadhesh Prasad, who sat alongside Yadav in the front row, has been shifted to the second row of the Parliament. 

Akhilesh is reportedly upset with the Congress for not consulting him about the changes made to the seating arrangement. The Samajwadi Party had demanded the two front-row seats for Akhilesh Yadav and Awadhesh Prasad. However, only one seat was allocated to the INDIA bloc ally, which went to the SP chief.

The SP was expecting Congress to consult the seat allocation arrangement with the allies before informing the Speaker. As per the latest arrangement, the Ayodhya MP has been shifted to the second row along with Mainpuri MP and Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav.  

The dissatisfaction among the opposition parties has been seen as the reason behind the absence of Samajwadi Party MPs from the recent opposition protests in Parliament.

Responding to the change in seating plan, Adyodhya MP Awadhesh Prasad said, "Akhilesh Ji has always given me respect and allowed me to sit beside him. Currently, when he is not at his seat, I sit there with his permission."

He said that there would be a meeting with the Lok Sabha Speaker and expressed hope that he would be allotted a seat in the first row.

Meanwhile, DMK leader TR Baalu has also requested the Congress to assign him a front-row seat next to Rahul Gandhi.

Leader of the Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's seat is in the eighth block, facing the Prime Minister and senior ministers on the Treasury Benches in the first block, according to The Indian Express.

Gandhi said that along with Congress general secretary KC Venugopal, DMK leader TR Baalu. In the second row of the opposition side, the only non-Congress MP is the DMK’s A Raja.

Meanwhile, Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been allotted a fourth-row aisle seat in the same block, while Congress leaders Gaurav Gogoi and Suresh Kodikunnil are also seated in the front row of the next block.