TDP first party to get an office in new Parliament building; AAP also gets a room in House

Major parties, including the BJP and Congress, will also continue to hold the parliamentary offices allotted to them in Samvidhan Sadan.

The rooms are allotted based on the number of MPs each party has in Parliament, and the Speaker made 11 allotments on Wednesday.

The JD(U), another key ally in the ruling NDA, was re-allotted the two rooms it has been using in the Samvidhan Sadan, 135 and 136. Before it split, the united Shiv Sena was using Room No. 128 in the old building as its parliamentary office. Now, the Shinde group of the Sena, which is also an NDA partner, gets that room. The Shiv Sena (UBT) will use 128-A.

It was expected that all major parties would get rooms in the new Parliament House, but as per sources, the BJP and Congress are not keen as they have large office space in Samvidhan Sadan.

The TDP has got a first-floor room, F09, in the new building, where most of the Cabinet ministers also have their offices. It will move here from the small room, 111B, it had in the old building.

The TDP earlier had Room No. 5 on the ground floor of the old building. But after the YSRCP swept the Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh in 2019, shooting to 22 seats from 9 in 2014 and shrinking the TDP’s numbers, it had applied for Room No. 5 saying the room it held was now too small for it. The YSRCP was then given Room No.5, and has been reallotted the same.

The Samajwadi Party also retains its rooms, 130 and 126-I & II, in the old building.

The other parties allotted rooms in the old building are the NCP (126D), RJD (125-IIA), CPI(M) (138), and BJD (45-II). The CPI(M) moves from rooms 135 and 136, which have long been its office.

The new building has 120 office spaces, of which 49 are for senior ministers, while an entire wing is reserved for the Prime Minister’s Office. The Lok Sabha Speaker, Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice-Chairman, and Leader of the Opposition have their offices on the ground floor of the new building.