Rajya Sabha Swearing-In Ceremony: 10 Newly Elected MPs Take Oath

New Delhi: Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan administered the oath of secrecy to ten newly elected members of the Upper House on Thursday.

Vice-President Administers Oath of Secrecy to 10 Newly Elected Upper House MPs

The newly elected MPs, who took the oath as Rajya Sabha members, included four from Andhra Pradesh — three of whom came from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and one from the Jana Sena Party (JSP), both constituents of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

From Andhra Pradesh, Sana Satish Babu, Vijay Chintakayala and Bhashyam Rama Krishna were elected unopposed from the TDP, while JSP’s Lingamaneni Ramesh was elected during the recent Rajya Sabha elections for 24 seats, spread across 10 states.

The other lawmakers who took oath in the Upper House included Tai Tagak (Bharatiya Janata Party) from Arunachal Pradesh, Rajesh Parmanad Shukla (Bharatiya Janata Party) from Gujarat, Baidyanath Ram (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha) from Jharkhand, Debashish Samantaray (Bharatiya Janata Party) from Odisha, and Praveen Chakravarty (Congress) from Tamil Nadu. Parimal Nathwani, who won as an Independent from Jharkhand, was also administered the oath of office by Vice-President Radhakrishnan.

Unity in Diversity: TDP and JSP Lawmakers Use Diverse Languages to Take Official Charge

With the completion of the swearing-in, these members formally assume their Rajya Sabha membership and are now eligible to participate in the proceedings of the House.

A notable feature of the oath ceremony was the country’s linguistic diversity on display — five of the ten members took the oath in Hindi, one in English, one in Tamil, and three in Telugu.

Union Minister of State for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal, Rajya Sabha Secretary-General P.C. Mody, several members of the House, and senior officials of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat attended the ceremony.

The elections for 26 Rajya Sabha seats spanning 10 states were held on June 18.

Elections were held in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat (four seats each), Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh (three each), Jharkhand (two seats), and Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal, and Mizoram (one each).

Out of all these, the BJP-led NDA grabbed the lion’s share by winning 19 seats, while the INDIA bloc secured victory in six seats.

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