Lucknow: After the retirement of ten members of the Samajwadi Party (SP) from the Vidhan Parishad, the party has lost the post of the leader of opposition in the council on Friday when UP Vidhan Parishad secretariat has derecognised party’s Lal Bihar Yadav as leader of opposition. It happened because the party does not have enough numbers in the Upper House to hold the post of the leader of opposition. Consequently, there will be no opposition the council.
Principal secretary, UP legislative council, Rajesh Singh issued the notification about the derecognition of Yadav as the leader of opposition in the council.
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Yadav now continues as the leader of the SP group in the council. Yadav became the leader of opposition in the UP legislative council on May 27 after his party’s Sanjay Lathar’s membership ended. Prior to Yadav, Lathar held the post. Similarly, the Bahujan Samaj Party members whose tenure ended are Atar Singh Rawat, Dinesh Chandra, and Suresh Kumar Kashyap.
For the first time, it happened that the Congress does not have any member in the council.
