Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be joined by his Cabinet colleagues Amit Shah, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Smriti Irani- all three first time Lok Sabha members- in the front row of the lower house, with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav retaining their front seats meant for Opposition leaders. While Shah and Prasad had front row seats in Rajya Sabha before the general elections, it is for the first time Irani will have a front row seat in Parliament. Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and DMK leader TR Baalu were also allocated seats in the front row. Among the bigger parties, leaders of JD(U), Trinamool Congress and YSRCP have also got front seats.