Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav has been elected as the Leader of Opposition by the party’s 111 legislators. He was elected by the Samajwadi Party MLAs for the post at a key party meet on Saturday.
The former UP chief minister had quit as the Lok Sabha MP from Azamgarh on Monday. He won his first state assembly election from Karhal in the family bastion of Mainpuri earlier this month.
"The Samajwadi Party's newly elected MLAs unanimously chose the party's national president, Akhilesh Yadav, as the leader of the legislators' group," the SP state chief, Naresh Uttam Patel, told reporters on Saturday.
Earlier, Samajwadi Party leader Lalji Verma had said that the party wanted Akhilesh Yadav to be the Leader of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. On Tuesday, Akhilesh Yadav went to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's office on Tuesday to resign from his membership of the House.
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