Lok Sabha member from Punjab Ravneet Singh Bittu has been given the temporary charge to lead the Congress party in the lower house of Parliament for the remaining part of the Budget Session.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi made this temporary arrangement as the party's leaders in the Lok Sabha were busy with the election campaign in their respective states.
Congress' Leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is also the President of the party's West Bengal unit, is busy with election campaigns in his home state. Similar is the case with deputy leader Gaurav Gogoi, who is campaigning in his home state of Assam.
Congress' chief whip in the Lok Sabha Kodikunnil Suresh and whip Manickam Tagore are busy with elections in Kerala and Tamil Nadu respectively.
Bittu, a three-term member of the Lok Sabha, had taken the lead in organising a parallel protest of lawmakers from Punjab at Jantar Mantar to support the farmers' agitation at the borders of the national capital.