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Ahead of motion, Birla's outreach to Oppn
The Morning Standard
|February 24, 2026
LOK Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday constituted Parliamentary Friendship Groups with more than 60 countries, comprising several prominent opposition members, including those suspended from the Lower House recently for alleged ‘unruly behaviour.’
The decision comes ahead of a no-confidence motion by the Opposition to remove him from office, alleging partisan conduct in the House.
Prominent opposition leaders such as Shashi Tharoor, P Chidambaram, Gaurav Gogoi (Congress), K Kanimozhi (DMK), Derek O’Brien, Abhishek Banerjee (Trinamool Congress), Arvind Sawant (SS-UBT), Supriya Sule (NCP-SP), Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM), Akhilesh Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav (Samajwadi Party) will chair the parliamentary groups, each having 11 members.
This story is from the February 24, 2026 edition of The Morning Standard.
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