Nitin Gadkari takes a back seat next to Amit Shah in Lok Sabha

Last update:December 02, 2024, 10:09 p.m. IST

Division numbers are used primarily when dividing votes when the electronic voting system is used.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been allotted seat number one in the Lok Sabha chamber, while the seat opposite him, on the other side of the first semi-circular row, has been reserved for the leader of the Lok Sabha. opposition Rahul Gandhi.

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari was earlier allotted division number 58 in the second column, but has now been allotted seat number four next to Home Minister Amit Shah, according to a circular issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat.

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh occupies divisional seat number two, next to the Prime Minister.

Another prominent opposition leader Akhilesh Yadav, who heads the Samajwadi Party (SP), will occupy seat number 355 in the first row. Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sudip Bandhopadhyay will sit next to Yadav. TMC leaders Abhishek Banerjee, Kalyan Banerjee and Saugata Roy were allotted seats numbered 280, 281 and 284 in the second row.

DMK leaders TR Baalu ​​and A Raja were also given front row seats.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who won the recent Wayanad polls, was allotted seat number 517, located in the fourth row.

The circular states that division numbers are the same as seat numbers.

Division numbers are used primarily when dividing votes when the electronic voting system is used.

The House has a vacancy – West Bengal’s Basirhat – due to the death of TMC’s SK Nurul Islam.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)