Seven members take oath in Lok Sabha
NCP's Agatha K Sangma took oath as a member of the 14th Lok Sabha, becoming the youngest MP of the current House.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: NCP's Agatha K Sangma on monday took oath as a member of the 14th Lok Sabha, becoming the youngest MP of the current House.
Sangma, 27, who is daughter of former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma, and six other newly elected members took oath on the first day of the two-day special session convened for the trust vote being sought by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
After the members took oath, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said he was very happy to welcome three young members. The other two are Anurag Singh Thakur of BJP and Anand Paranjpe of Shiv Sena.
"Now the House has 38 young members below 35 years of age," Chatterjee said.
Sangma was elected from Tura constituecy in Meghalaya after her father P A Sangma resigned following his election to the state assembly.
Thakur was elected from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh after sitting member Prem Kumar Dhumal resigned from the House on becoming Chief Minister.
Paranjpe won from Thane in Maharashtra, while Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandra Sekhar Rao was re-elected from Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh.
Rao had resigned over the Telangana statehood issue. The three other new members who took oath are A Indrakaran Reddy (Cong) of Adilabad, B Vinod Kumar (TRS) of Hanamkonda and Errabelli Dayakar Rao (TDP) of Warangal -all from Andhra Pradesh.
While Sangma and Thakur took oath in Hindi, Chandra Shekhar Rao and Kumar preferred English. Reddy and Dayakar Rao chose Telugu and Paranjpe took oath in Marathi.
Sangma, 27, who is daughter of former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma, and six other newly elected members took oath on the first day of the two-day special session convened for the trust vote being sought by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
After the members took oath, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said he was very happy to welcome three young members. The other two are Anurag Singh Thakur of BJP and Anand Paranjpe of Shiv Sena.
"Now the House has 38 young members below 35 years of age," Chatterjee said.
Sangma was elected from Tura constituecy in Meghalaya after her father P A Sangma resigned following his election to the state assembly.
Thakur was elected from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh after sitting member Prem Kumar Dhumal resigned from the House on becoming Chief Minister.
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Paranjpe won from Thane in Maharashtra, while Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandra Sekhar Rao was re-elected from Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh.
Rao had resigned over the Telangana statehood issue. The three other new members who took oath are A Indrakaran Reddy (Cong) of Adilabad, B Vinod Kumar (TRS) of Hanamkonda and Errabelli Dayakar Rao (TDP) of Warangal -all from Andhra Pradesh.
While Sangma and Thakur took oath in Hindi, Chandra Shekhar Rao and Kumar preferred English. Reddy and Dayakar Rao chose Telugu and Paranjpe took oath in Marathi.
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