A group of Congress MPs has urged party president Sonia Gandhi to make general secretary Rahul Gandhi the Leader of the Lok Sabha.

The party’s 10 MPs wrote to the Congress chief suggesting Rahul’s appointment as the Leader of the House, saying it was the ‘need of the hour’.

The party’s Lok Sabha Leader’s position has been vacant after then finance minister Pranab Mukherjee’s resignation ahead of the presidential election.

Rahul had recently expressed his willingness for a larger role in the party leaving it on the Congress president and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to find a suitable job for him.