The Bharatiya Janata Party that has been reduced to a three-member opposition in the 70-member Delhi Assembly said on Monday that it expects the treasury benches to accord it the status of the Leader of Opposition, and will not ask for it.
“We will not ask for the post of the Leader of Opposition. But we want the speaker to go by the rule book,” the BJP’s Leader of Legislature party, Vijender Gupta, told reporters, after day one of the first session of the sixth Delhi Legislative Assembly.
Earlier in the day, soon after the Aam Aadmi Party’s Shahdara legislator Ram Nivas Goyal was appointed Speaker of the Delhi Assembly, an altercation ensued between him and Mr. Gupta, as the latter raised the issue of the Delhi Government not permitting the media into the Delhi Secretariat.
Mr. Gupta who sat in the opposition benches along with colleagues Vishwas Nagar MLA O.P. Sharma and Mustafabad MLA Jagdish Pradhan raised the issue after congratulating Mr. Goyal on assuming the Speaker’s post.
