Officials indicated that with the Congress getting only two seats and the BSP only one in the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly in the recently concluded elections, both the parties are facing problems in getting office rooms in the state assembly complex. may fall. As per convention, the parties that win at least one percent or at least four seats in the assembly get an office room in the assembly premises.
Apart from the BSP and the Congress, the Jansatta Dal (Democratic) led by Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias “Raja Bhaiya” of Kunda may also face this problem. The allocation of office rooms to smaller parties is at the discretion of the Speaker of the Assembly.
UP Assembly Special Secretary Braj Bhushan Dubey told PTI, “The allocation of rooms to smaller parties is at the discretion of the speaker and availability of space. By small parties he means parties with less than four seats.” In UP Assembly
The Rashtriya Lok Dal which won only one seat in the state assembly during the 2017 elections did not have an office room in the assembly complex. But after winning eight seats this time, they are eligible for office room, officials said.
The March 10 results for the 2022 assembly elections have also significantly changed the party hierarchy in the 403-member UP Assembly. Barring the BJP and the SP, which have managed to retain their number one and two slots respectively, however, with significant changes in their strength in the House, other parties have found their hierarchy changed significantly.
The BSP’s position, which emerged as the third largest party in the 2017 elections, has been usurped by the ruling ally Apna Dal (Sonelal), which increased its numbers by three compared to the 2017 assembly election result. Got 12 seats. , Due to this, the 12-member Apna Dal (Sonelal), headed by Union Minister Anupriya Patel, has now probably deserved a bigger post. Special Secretary of the Vidhan Sabha Dubey said that the parties which get office rooms in the assembly premises also get staff.
Another ruling ally, the Nishad Party, which emerged as a single-member legislature party in the 2017 assembly elections, has also drastically changed its hierarchy by winning six seats in 2022 and entitled it to an office room. On the seating arrangement in the House, Dubey said that the seats of the Leader of the House, Leader of the Opposition and Ministers are fixed.
Dubey said that the seating arrangement of members of different parties may change this time also, depending on the strength of the party. He said the allocation of seats for leaders of legislature parties with less than four members would also be at the discretion of the Speaker.
According to the March 10 results of the latest UP assembly elections, the BJP won 255 seats, while its allies Apna Dal (S) and Nishad Party secured 12 and six seats respectively, taking the ruling coalition’s tally to 273. His strength in 2017 was 312. 9 and one respectively.
The Samajwadi Party alone got 111 seats, while its ally RLD won eight seats and Om Prakash Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) won six, taking the tally to 125. The strength of Congress has come down from seven to two and that of BSP to one seat. 19.
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