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It’s final: Lalu, Baalu, Gowda to get front seats

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Posted: Aug 05, 2009 at 1237 hrs IST

New Delhi The front row seating in the Lok sabha has been finalised and the Congress leadership has spared half of the UPA quota of 20 for its partners and friends. The beneficiaries are Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar (NCP), Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool), T R Baalu (DMK), former prime minister H D Deve Gowda (JD-S) and Lalu Prasad Yadav (RJD).

Congress deputy leader Sis Ram Ola has made it to the front bench, perhaps as a consolation after his exclusion from the ministry. The Congress line-up is like this — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister and Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Home Minister P Chidambaram and Ola.

SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav finds himself in the company of BSP floor leader Dara Singh Chauhan. CPM leader Basudeb Acharia shares a front bench with JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav.

The BJP frontline is already in place — Deputy Speaker Karia Munda, Leader of the Opposition L K Advani, deputy leader Sushma Swaraj, party chief Rajnath Singh, former president Murli Manohar Joshi and former minister Jaswant Singh.

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Seating - is it so important? by Jay Dinakar on 08 Aug 2009

Where they sit in the Lok Sabha is not important. What they do for the Nation is important. Service to the Country should be their first priority, not the seats they occupy or their families or personal wealth. Further they should remind themselves often that they are also citizens of this country, like anyone else and not any super-human. Jay Dinakar.

Front seats.. by MPs by satish gs on 05 Aug 2009

Devegowda will surely sleep during the session and he is total waste..Laaluji some times makes funny statements .. which makes no difference at all... apart from raising few eye brows..Baalu is another useless character ... in the front row..

Lalu ,Balu,Gowda by D.A.srinivasan on 05 Aug 2009

Sir , The trio Lalu Balu and Gowda, Have something in common.Their names find place in many scandals.Misuse of authority ,corruption and favouratism. What is painful is that persons of character are made to sit in back benches. This is our democracy

Front row for lau, balu and Gowda by k.madhukar on 05 Aug 2009

Three crooks in front row. Any way what difference it would make. Now even TV crew know that focusing on them will not improve thier TRP

Lalu Balu and Gowda by SC Aggarwal on 05 Aug 2009

The UPA government has done well to allot its front seats in the Lok Sabha for Laluji, Baluji and Gowdaji. Now let us hope these three seats will not remain vacant and will always remain occupied by these prominent parliamentarians.

FRONT SEATS FOR MPs by Rajesh Vyas on 05 Aug 2009

Mr. Aggrawal:You are expecting too much from these good for nothin g MPs. Either they will absent themselves or doze of during the sessions.

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