Rahul Gandhi named Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, decision taken at meeting of INDIA front

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been elected as the Leader of Opposition in the 18th Lok Sabha. AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal said that this was decided in the meeting of the INDIA Front. Sonia Gandhi has given a letter to the Pro-tem Speaker in this regard.

Notably, Lok Sabha did not have a Leader of the Opposition in the last 10 years because no political party, other than the ruling party, was able to secure the minimum Lok Sabha seats required to nominate a Leader of the Opposition.

The Congress emerged as the second-largest party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and improved its tally to 100, from 52 in the 2019 Lok Sabha poll. The total tally of the INDIA bloc stood at 234. The announcement of Rahul Gandhi as LoP comes a day before the election for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker.