The oath-taking of several newly elected MPs was held today on the first day of the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is the leader of the Lok Sabha, was the first to take oath as a member of the House. Pro-tem Speaker Bhartruhari Mahtab administered the oath to Mr Modi. This was followed by the oath of the panel of chairpersons appointed to assist Mr. Mahtab in running the proceedings of the Lok Sabha till the election of the Speaker. BJP MPs Radha Mohan Singh and Faggan Singh Kulaste took oath as the members of the Chairperson panel. However, Congress MP K Suresh, DMK MP TR Balu and Sudip Bandyopadhyay of TMC skipped oath-taking proceedings as the members of the panel. Later, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Manohar Lal, Piyush Goyal, Jitanram Manjhi, Rajiv Ranjan alias Lallan Singh, Dr Virendra Kumar, Kiren Rijiju, Chirag Paswan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Annapurna Devi, and others took oath as the members of the Lok Sabha. Union Ministers HD Kumaraswamy and Pralhad Joshi took oath in Kannada while Dharmendra Pradhan and Jual Oram took oath in Odia language. Another Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal took oath in Assamese, and Union Ministers K Ram Mohan Naidu and G Kishan Reddy took oath in Telugu. Union Minister C R Patil took oath in Gujarati. Union Minister Prataprao Jadhav administered the oath in Marathi while Dr. Jitendra Singh in Dogri. Union Minister Suresh Gopi took oath in Malayalam while another Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar took oath in Bengali. Union Minister Durgadas Uikey took oath in Sanskrit.
Following the oath taken by the Union Ministers as members of the House, other MPs took oath as per the alphabetical order of States and Union Territories. From Assam, Gaurav Gogoi and Rakibul Hussain of Congress and Bijuli Kalita Medhi of BJP were among the prominent faces who took oaths. From Bihar, Members of Parliament who took oath include Lovely Anand and Devesh Chandra Thakur of JDU, and Janardan Singh Sigriwal, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Ravi Shankar Prasad of BJP as well as Misa Bharti of RJD and Tariq Anwar of Congress. Congress MP Manish Tewari, who has been elected from Chandigarh has also taken oath as a member of the Lok Sabha. Newly elected MPs from Delhi Bansuri Swaraj, Manoj Tiwari and others were also administered oaths. From Himachal Pradesh, former Union Minister Anurag Thakur and actress Kangna Ranaut were among the prominent faces who took oaths as Lok Sabha MPs. BJP MPs Parshottam Rupala from Gujarat and Naveen Jindal from Haryana also took oath besides Deepender Singh Hooda of Congress.
