{"id":56488,"date":"2019-06-27T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T02:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=56488"},"modified":"2019-06-27T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T02:50:18","slug":"high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha","title":{"rendered":"High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP&#8217;s appointment in Lok Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused an urgent hearing to a plea for asking the Lok Sabha speaker to appoint a leader of opposition (LoP) in the House.<\/p>\n<p>A vacation bench of justices Jyoti Singh and Manoj Kumar Ohri said &#8220;looking at the relief sought, there is no urgency&#8221;. The bench instead listed the petition for hearing by an appropriate bench on July 8.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates Manmohan Singh Narula and Susmita Kumari, who filed the petition, said the Speaker was not performing his statutory duty of appointing the LoP.<\/p>\n<p>They argued in the petition that recognising a member of the house as the leader of opposition was &#8220;not a political or arithmetical decision, but a statutory decision&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The speaker has to merely ascertain whether the party claiming this post is the largest party in the opposition,&#8221; they said in the petition, which also sought framing of a policy for appointment of the LoP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"163\" data-attachment-id=\"56489\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha\/download-2019-06-27t081900-672\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"310,163\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"download &amp;#8211; 2019-06-27T081900.672\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56489\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?resize=310%2C163&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?w=310&amp;ssl=1 310w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?resize=150%2C79&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a>Denying the second largest party in Parliament &#8212; the Congress &#8212; the leadership of the opposition sets a wrong precedent and dilutes democracy, they added..<\/p>\n<p>West Bengal&#8217;s Behrampur MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has been elected as the leader of the Congress parliamentary party in the Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>The petition said under the Salaries and Allowances of Leaders of Opposition in Parliament Act of 1977, the person who is leader of the numerically biggest party in opposition to the government is considered as the LoP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That in the new Lok Sabha, with 52 members, the Congress is the largest party in the Opposition, and is therefore the rightful claimant to this post under the law,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The petition also contended that there is no condition in the Salaries and Allowances of the Leader of Opposition in Parliament Act that the party in opposition has to have a strength of 10 per cent of the total MPs in the house for its leader to be recognised as LoP.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners have claimed that &#8220;the Speaker is legally bound to recognise the leader of that party as the leader of the opposition as per the statute passed by the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the speaker is performing a statutory duty in recognising the leader of the opposition, she or he cannot exercise any discretion in the matter,&#8221; the petitioner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused an urgent hearing to a plea for asking the Lok Sabha speaker to appoint a leader of opposition (LoP) in the House. A vacation bench of justices Jyoti Singh and Manoj Kumar Ohri said &#8220;looking at the relief sought, there is no urgency&#8221;. The bench instead listed the petition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20124],"tags":[762,1625],"class_list":["post-56488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court-judiciary-legal-system","tag-appointments","tag-lok-sabha"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP&#039;s appointment in Lok Sabha - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused an urgent hearing to a plea for asking the Lok Sabha speaker to appoint a leader of opposition (LoP) in the House. - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP&#039;s appointment in Lok Sabha - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused an urgent hearing to a plea for asking the Lok Sabha speaker to appoint a leader of opposition (LoP) in the House. - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-27T02:50:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"310\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"163\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0bfdffe9059fb8bb24a86d094609c5ea\"},\"headline\":\"High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP&#8217;s appointment in Lok Sabha\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-27T02:50:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha\"},\"wordCount\":389,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Appointments\",\"Lok Sabha\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Court, Judiciary &amp; Legal System\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha\",\"name\":\"High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP's appointment in Lok Sabha - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-27T02:50:18+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused an urgent hearing to a plea for asking the Lok Sabha speaker to appoint a leader of opposition (LoP) in the House. - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&ssl=1\",\"width\":310,\"height\":163},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Court, Judiciary &amp; Legal System\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/category\\\/court-judiciary-legal-system\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP&#8217;s appointment in Lok Sabha\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Legal News India - Supreme Court & High Court Updates\",\"description\":\"Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"Legal News India for Advocates, Lawyers & Law Students\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Legal News India: Supreme Court, High Courts & Govt Updates\",\"alternateName\":\"Legal News India for Advocates, Lawyers & Law Students\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/538552_367793346590451_81997783_n.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/538552_367793346590451_81997783_n.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1\",\"width\":250,\"height\":250,\"caption\":\"Legal News India: Supreme Court, High Courts & Govt Updates\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/LegalindiaCom\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/Legal_india\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0bfdffe9059fb8bb24a86d094609c5ea\",\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/4faa9d728ed1af3b73d52225c7f12901ac726fe6f7ea0a3348a1d51f3a930987?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/4faa9d728ed1af3b73d52225c7f12901ac726fe6f7ea0a3348a1d51f3a930987?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/4faa9d728ed1af3b73d52225c7f12901ac726fe6f7ea0a3348a1d51f3a930987?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Legal India Admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/legaliadmin\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/legal-india-admin\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP's appointment in Lok Sabha - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates","description":"The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused an urgent hearing to a plea for asking the Lok Sabha speaker to appoint a leader of opposition (LoP) in the House. - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP's appointment in Lok Sabha - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates","og_description":"The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused an urgent hearing to a plea for asking the Lok Sabha speaker to appoint a leader of opposition (LoP) in the House. - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha","og_site_name":"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/","article_published_time":"2019-06-27T02:50:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":310,"height":163,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Legal India Admin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Legal India Admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha"},"author":{"name":"Legal India Admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0bfdffe9059fb8bb24a86d094609c5ea"},"headline":"High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP&#8217;s appointment in Lok Sabha","datePublished":"2019-06-27T02:50:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha"},"wordCount":389,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&ssl=1","keywords":["Appointments","Lok Sabha"],"articleSection":["Court, Judiciary &amp; Legal System"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha","url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha","name":"High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP's appointment in Lok Sabha - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&ssl=1","datePublished":"2019-06-27T02:50:18+00:00","description":"The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused an urgent hearing to a plea for asking the Lok Sabha speaker to appoint a leader of opposition (LoP) in the House. - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&ssl=1","width":310,"height":163},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-denies-urgent-hearing-to-plea-seeking-lops-appointment-in-lok-sabha#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Court, Judiciary &amp; Legal System","item":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/court-judiciary-legal-system"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"High Court denies urgent hearing to plea seeking LoP&#8217;s appointment in Lok Sabha"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/","name":"Legal News India - Supreme Court & High Court Updates","description":"Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#organization"},"alternateName":"Legal News India for Advocates, Lawyers & Law Students","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Legal News India: Supreme Court, High Courts & Govt Updates","alternateName":"Legal News India for Advocates, Lawyers & Law Students","url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/538552_367793346590451_81997783_n.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/538552_367793346590451_81997783_n.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","width":250,"height":250,"caption":"Legal News India: Supreme Court, High Courts & Govt Updates"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/","https:\/\/x.com\/Legal_india"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0bfdffe9059fb8bb24a86d094609c5ea","name":"Legal India Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4faa9d728ed1af3b73d52225c7f12901ac726fe6f7ea0a3348a1d51f3a930987?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4faa9d728ed1af3b73d52225c7f12901ac726fe6f7ea0a3348a1d51f3a930987?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4faa9d728ed1af3b73d52225c7f12901ac726fe6f7ea0a3348a1d51f3a930987?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Legal India Admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.legalindia.com","https:\/\/x.com\/legaliadmin"],"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/author\/legal-india-admin"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-27T081900.672.jpg?fit=310%2C163&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56483,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-refuses-urgent-hearing-to-plea-for-appointment-of-leader-of-oppn-in-ls","url_meta":{"origin":56488,"position":0},"title":"High Court refuses urgent hearing to plea for appointment of Leader of Oppn in LS","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"June 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused an urgent hearing to a plea seeking direction to the Lok Sabha Speaker to appoint a Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the House. A vacation bench of justices Jyoti Singh and Manoj Ohri said \"looking at the relief sought, there is no urgency\" and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bar, Bench &amp; Firm News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bar, Bench &amp; Firm News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/bar-bench-firm-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-05-29T043026.520.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":36528,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/law-mandates-ls-speaker-appoint-lop-delhi-hc","url_meta":{"origin":56488,"position":1},"title":"Which law mandates LS Speaker to appoint LoP : Delhi HC","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"January 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought to know about the legal provision which makes it mandatory for the Speaker to appoint Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha. \"You have to draw your right from the Constitution and not from the laws made under the Constitution. You are arguing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Court, Judiciary &amp; Legal System&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Court, Judiciary &amp; Legal System","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/court-judiciary-legal-system"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34651,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-dismisses-pil-seeking-lop-status-congress-lok-sabha","url_meta":{"origin":56488,"position":2},"title":"SC dismisses PIL seeking LoP status to Congress in Lok Sabha","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"August 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL seeking that the Leader of Opposition (LoP) status in Lok Sabha be granted to Congress party, saying it cannot decide political issues filed under the garb of Public Interest Litigation. Refusing to entertain the petition filed by an advocate, a bench headed by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"supreme court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":36266,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bill-seeking-amend-lokpal-lokyuktas-act-introduced-lok-sabha","url_meta":{"origin":56488,"position":3},"title":"Bill seeking to amend Lokpal and Lokyuktas Act introduced in Lok Sabha","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"December 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A bill seeking to amend to include Leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha in a panel, which will select chairperson and members of the anti-corruption body, was introduced in Lok Sabha on Thursday. The existing Act has the Leader of the Opposition in the panel but there is no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bar, Bench &amp; Firm News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bar, Bench &amp; Firm News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/bar-bench-firm-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"lokpal","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lokpal.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":35172,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/government-conclusive-opinion-leader-opposition-soon","url_meta":{"origin":56488,"position":4},"title":"Government to have conclusive opinion on &#8216;Leader of opposition&#8217; very soon","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"September 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Government will very soon have a conclusive opinion on the issue of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha as a member of the selection committees that make appointments in various statutory bodies, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. \"We had this problem (requirement of LoP). We sought the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Court, Judiciary &amp; Legal System&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Court, Judiciary &amp; Legal System","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/court-judiciary-legal-system"},"img":{"alt_text":"lop","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lop.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":28036,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/lok-sabha-speaker-meira-kumar-files-writ-in-hc","url_meta":{"origin":56488,"position":5},"title":"Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar files writ in HC","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"April 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A writ petition in Patna High Court has been filed by the Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar\u00a0\u00a0seeking the closure of a road constructed on her land at Chandwa village in Bihar\u2019s Bhojpur district without consent here in Patna on Monday Hearing the petition, a single bench of Justice Jaynandan Singh\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6H5Bf-eH6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}