MP Cong requests Sonia, Rahul to name new Leader of Opposition

To avoid the bad blood among various factions in its Madhya Pradesh unit, the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) today passed a unanimous resolution requesting the party president Sonia Gandhi and her deputy Rahul Gandhi to name the Leader of Opposition (LoP), a day ahead of the start of the budget session of the Assembly.

After the meeting to elect the LoP began today, the lone Muslim MLA Arif Aqueel got up and told the Central party observer Ajay Maken and Mohan Prakash, the AICC general secretary and the incharge of party's state affairs, that holding one-on-one talks with the MLAs was a futile exercise as it creates bitterness, an MLA who attended the meeting told

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