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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi criticized Narendra Modi on Saturday for choosing to take oath as Prime Minister. The senior politician claimed that the PM-designate had lost the mandate he sought and questioned him for not taking “responsibility for failure". The remarks came even as members of the BJP-led NDA prepared to be sworn-in for a record third term.
As the first Parliament session after the recent general elections got underway, it reflected a sea change in power dynamics, with the BJP short of a majority and dependent on its NDA allies, and the Opposition INDIA alliance confident and purposeful, fuelled by a rise in numbers. A rare contest for the Speaker’s post also took place, which signalled stormy days in Parliament ahead, while Rahul Gandhi took on his first statutory role as the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. The Urdu dailies captured these developments, and sought to decipher them.
The installation of ‘sengol’ adjacent to the Lok Sabha Speaker's chair has become a hot topic of discussion during this session, with opposition MPs advocating its replacement by a copy of the Indian Constitution.
Finally, after two decades of ‘will she, won’t she’, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is going to make her electoral debut now. She will contest the Lok Sabha bypoll from Kerala’s Wayanad, the constituency that her brother Rahul Gandhi has vacated so as to retain his Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh instead.
The BJP Legislature Party in Odisha will meet on Tuesday to elect its leader and the state’s new Chief Minister. The new government will take oath the following day, according to a senior party leader. The BJP on June 4 secured a majority by winning 78 seats in the 147-member Odisha Assembly. It also bagged 20 of 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is likely to retain the Raebareli seat after winning the recent Lok Sabha elections from two constituencies. Party leaders reportedly remain divided on the matter, with a significant number of Congress members urging Gandhi to retain the family bastion of Raebareli. A final announcement is expected before the June 17 deadline.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was unanimously elected as the chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party on Saturday. The development came mere hours after the Congress Working Committee passed an resolution seeking the appointment of Rahul Gandhi as Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha has incidentally functioned without a Leader of Opposition since 2014 as no party managed to secure the requisite seats to assume the role.
In a major setback for the BJP, Union minister Smriti Irani looked set for a huge loss to the Congress’s K L Sharma, who had pulled ahead by 1.66 lakh votes in Amethi as per leads till 6 pm. In neighbouring Rae Bareli, a Congress party bastion for decades, senior leader Rahul Gandhi is leading by 3.90 lakh votes — a number that surpasses his mother Sonia Gandhi’s previous margins from the seat.