BJP MP Piyush Goyal said there was no precedent to suggest that the deputy speaker's post must go to the opposition, and the opposition was needlessly choosing a showdown.
Whatever steps have been taken to appoint the protem Speaker have been done according to the rules...Congress should not do politics, Kiren Rijiju said
Congress attacks BJP over appointment of Bhartruhari Mahtab as protem speaker claiming that he is not the senior most MP, but it is just a convention and not a rule