RAHUL AS LEADER OF OPPOSITION - LAMB OR LION
Rahul Gandhi is now Leader of Opposition Party – LOP with Congress Party winning 99 MP seats thereby eligible for the status of leader of opposition. INDI-Alliance (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) headed by Congress had secured 232 MP seats. As the BJP could not get 272 seats – half way mark to have a majority of its own like in its first two terms of 2014 and 2019 - but stuck with 240 MP seats thereby to depend upon its allies which secured 53 seats for its survival. Though NDA had a comfortable majority of 293 seats and all its major allies like Mr. Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party with 16 seats, Mr. Nitish Kumar ‘s Janata Dal United with 12 seats, Chirag Paswan’s Lok Jana Sakthi Party with 5 seats (which makes a total seat of 273 seats – 1 seat above half way mark of 272) – not to speak of 20 seats of other BJP allies are solidly behind Modi Sarkar – despite INDI-Alliance parties hoping for some splits and problems for Modi – but nothing happened ...