NEW DELHI : Eight newly-elected Members of Parliament, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and BJP leader Tarun Chugh, were sworn in as members of the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan administered the oath of office to the newly elected members. While Kharge took the oath separately in the Chairman’s chamber, the remaining seven members were administered the oath in the Rajya Sabha chamber.
The other newly inducted members are Jitendra Meghjibhai Kanzariya and Mansingh Meraman Parmar from Gujarat, M. Nagaraja from Karnataka, Rajendra Hiralal Jain from Maharashtra, Adhikarimayum Sharda Devi from Manipur, and Alka Singh from Rajasthan.
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh, Leader of the House J.P. Nadda, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, and Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal attended the oath-taking ceremony.
Kharge took the oath in Hindi while holding a copy of the Constitution. Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were present during the ceremony. Four members took oath in Hindi, one in Kannada, one in Punjabi and one in Manipuri. While two members are from Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur and Rajasthan sent one member each to the Upper House.
Chairman Radhakrishnan congratulated the newly elected members and welcomed them to the Upper House.
