|   Samajwadi Party MLC Lal Bihari Yadav will be the leader of opposition in UP Legislative Council, the upper House of the state legislature. Jamir Ansari will be the deputy leader of the party in the Legislative Council. Another SP MLC, Kiranpal Kashyap, has been appointed as the chief whip of the SP party in the council After the retirement of its members, SP had lost the required number to claim the post of leader of opposition in the UP Legislative Council.   Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the elections for 13 vacant seats of UP Legislative Council were held. All candidates were elected unopposed and 10 members of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies and three members of the SP were elected. With the election of three members, the strength of the SP increased to 10 MLCs enabling it to claim the status of leader of opposition.

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