Rajasthan Assembly leader of opposition to be named by BJP on April 2
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Jaipur: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which recently appointed C.P. Joshi as Rajasthan BJP President, will shortly announce the new Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly.
Arun Singh, the BJP's in-charge for Rajasthan, spoke to journalists while he was in Jaipur on Friday and said: "A meeting of party MLAs will be held on April 2 in which the name of the Leader of Opposition will be announced based on the views of the legislators and the decision of the party high command."
Singh clarified that the party MLAs will finally decide who will be the Leader of the Opposition.
The post is lying vacant ever since Gulab Chand Kataria, who was the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajasthan Assembly, was moved as the Governor of Assam. With Rajasthan scheduled to go to the polls later this year, the BJP is likely to keep the caste equation in mind before naming the Leader of the Opposition.
With inputs from IANS