Jaswant Singh gets third row seat in Lok Sabha

JASWANT

New Delhi, Nov 11 (PTI) Expulsion from the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) has forced Jaswant Singh to go to the third
row in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) as he
has lost his front row seat in the opposition ranks.

71-year old Singh has been given seat number 371 in the
third row in the Lok Sabha which falls in the fifth block
accommodating members from small parties, Parliament sources
said.
A decision to allot the seat to Singh, who is also
Chairman of the prestigious Public Accounts Committee (PAC),
has been taken by Speaker Meira Kumar, ahead of the Winter
session of Indian Parliament beginning on November 19.
After the May elections, Singh had a seat in the front row
along with Leader of Opposition L K Advani, Deputy Leader of
Opposition Sushma Swaraj, Party President Rajnath Singh, and
former party president Murli Manohar Joshi by virtue of having
been one of the senior most leaders of BJP then.
Incidentally, Singh was the Leader of Opposition in the
Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament) before his
election to the Lok Sabha from Darjeeling constituency in
eastern state of West Bengal.
BJP's move to remove Singh from the Chairmanship of
the PAC has not succeeded. Rules have it that if a member is
unable to discharge his functions as head of any panel, only
then the Speaker has the discretion to find a replacement.
Singh himself has made it clear that he has no intention
to oblige the BJP by quitting the post. PTI SPG
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