Members To take oath before the President!
New Delhi: On Monday, 04 April 2022, Six newly-elected Rajya Sabha MPs, including two from the BJP and one from the Congress, took oath in the House.
Pabitra Margherita (BJP, Assam); Rwngwra Narzary (UPPL, Assam); Jebi Mather Hisham (Congress, Kerala); Sandosh Kumar (CPI, Kerala); A A Rahim (CPI-M, Kerala); and S Phangnon Konyak (BJP, Nagaland) were the members who took oath in the Upper House of Parliament.
Before taking their seat in the House, every member of the Rajya Sabha is required to take oath before the President or some person appointed on that behalf by him.
Rajya Sabha chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu presided over the process of oath and affirmation of new members.
BJP’s Konyak, who was elected unopposed to the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Nagaland, who became the first woman from the state to get a berth in the Parliament’s Upper House.
Konyak is also president of Nagaland BJP women wing.
In the recent election of 13 Rajya Sabha seats, the BJP has won four Rajya Sabha seats from three Northeastern states, Assam, Tripura and Nagaland. The saffron party alliance partner United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) won one Rajya Sabha seat from Assam.
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