Soon after Rahul Gandhi became the LoP in the Lok Sabha, there were BJP barbs at Congress leaders over false claims that it was a Constitutional post.
BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya explained in a series of tweets that LoP is not a constitutionally ordained post but one which was created by a statute brought in by a non-Congress government in 1977, after the Emergency.
Malviya quoted Rahul Gandhi, who lost thrice in Lok Sabha elections, was made to falsely believe that the post is constitutional when it is, in fact statutory.
Despite this Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla officially recognised Rahul Gandhi as LoP following parliamentary rules.
It was during the Friday session of Parliament that Gandhi was not allowed to speak on the issue of NEET during the discussion on the motion of thanks after the President's address, on which his Congress party has been making much hue and cry ever since. Malviya's comments were a response to that development.
