Politics | Posted on May 30, 2009 at 04:20pm IST

Cong Core Group meets to finalise LS Speaker

Press Trust Of India

New Delhi: The top leadership of Congress, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi, met in Delhi on Saturday to finalise the name for the post of the Lok Sabha Speaker.

The meeting of the Congress Core Group was held at the residence of the Prime Minister on Saturday afternoon.

Besides Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, other leaders who attended the meeting included Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister P Chidambaram and Defence Minister A K Antony.

Senior Congress MP from Andhra Pradesh, Kishore Chandra Deo, is the front runner for the post.

The Congress leadership also discussed whether the post of THE Deputy Speaker should be given to the Opposition as per convention or to some ally.

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