From LoO to LoP to LoO

The Congress Party seems to have given up its demand and expectation, indeed its sense of entitlement, that it had to secure the position of the Leader of the Opposition in the 16th Lok Sabha by virtue of having the largest number of members in the motley Opposition, though still less than the legal...

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Veröffentlicht in:Economic and political weekly 2014-09
1. Verfasser: Prabhakara, M S
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The Congress Party seems to have given up its demand and expectation, indeed its sense of entitlement, that it had to secure the position of the Leader of the Opposition in the 16th Lok Sabha by virtue of having the largest number of members in the motley Opposition, though still less than the legally mandated 10% of the total strength of the House. [...]newspaper reporting generally kindlier disposed to the Congress Party has also opted to abbreviate Leader of Opposition to LoP rather than the more accurate Loo. A search in Google provided an even more apposite explanation, though this is probably an apocryphal urban legend: "When people flung their potty waste out of the window (a common practice before modern sanitary systems were put in place in homes in Paris and London and no doubt other towns), they would shout "Gardez l'eau" (gar-day low), French for 'watch out for the water'".
ISSN:0012-9976