Om Birla, Rahul, Akhilesh, Manipur MPs take oath amid loud cheers in LS
Other than the oath text, he said, invocations made by the members had been blurred and were not going on record.
Other than the oath text, he said, invocations made by the members had been blurred and were not going on record.
For the first time, newly-elected members of the Lok Sabha took oath in the Lok Sabha Chamber of the new Parliament House building. The prime minister was the first to take the oath and was greeted with “Bharat Mata ki Jai” and “Modi, Modi” slogans.
Those administered oath included seven members from the BJP and three from the Samajwadi Party.
At the beginning of the ceremony, Chief Secretary Sudhansh Pant requested the Governor to administer the oath to Justice Srivastava.
Says that his alliance with NDA will remain forever.
A resident of Rudrapur in the Gorakhpur district of UP, Shukla was the former Union Finance minister, a four-time MLA, a three-time Union minister and a member of the Rajya Sabha.
Indian-American Democrat Juli A. Mathew took oath as a judge in Fort Bend County, Texas, for a second consecutive term.
Others who took oath are Vivek K. Tankha, K. Laxman, Laxmikant Vajpayee, Kalpana Saini, Sulata Deo and R. Dharmar. Fourteen of the 57 members were re-elected to the House.
These 27 members from ten states did so in 10 languages: Hindi (12 Members), English (4), two each in Sanskrit, Kannada, Marathi, and Oriya, and one each in Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu. Four others of the 57 newly-elected members had taken oath recently.
The strength of the Council is 12, including the Chief Minister.
