Gehlot, BJP's Dalit face and once labourer, is leader of House in RS

The man who replaces Arun Jaitley was active in RSS-affiliate Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh; he has also been a three-term Madhya Pradesh legislator and a minister in the state govt

Union Social Justice and Empowerment minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot has replaced Arun Jaitley as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s leader of the house in the Rajya Sabha. Railways and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal succeeds cabinet colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad, who is now a Lok Sabha member, as the deputy leader of the BJP in the Rajya Sabha.

The BJP on Wednesday announced its parliamentary party executive committee with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as its leader in the Lok Sabha and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh as the deputy leader. There is no change here from the previous Lok Sabha despite BJP chief