Its final: Lalu,Baalu,Gowda to get front seats

The front row seating in the Lok sabha has been finalised and the Congress leadership has spared half of the UPA quota of 20 for its partners and friends. The beneficiaries are Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar NCP,Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee Trinamool,T R Baalu DMK,former prime minister H D Deve Gowda JD-S and Lalu Prasad Yadav RJD.

Congress deputy leader Sis Ram Ola has made it to the front bench,perhaps as a consolation after his exclusion from the ministry. The Congress line-up is like this Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,Finance Minister and Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee,UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi,Home Minister P Chidambaram and Ola.

SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav finds himself in the company of BSP floor leader Dara Singh Chauhan. CPM leader Basudeb Acharia shares a front bench with JDU chief Sharad Yadav.

The BJP frontline is already in place Deputy Speaker Karia Munda,Leader of the Opposition L K Advani,deputy leader Sushma Swaraj,party chief Rajnath Singh,former president Murli Manohar Joshi and former minister Jaswant Singh.