New Delhi, Apr 4: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw have been among the many 14 who took oath as members of the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
Vice-president and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar administered the oath to them within the new Parliament home constructing.
Whereas Sonia Gandhi took oath as a member of the Higher Home from Rajasthan, Vaishnaw was sworn in as a member of the identical home from Odisha.
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Congress chief Ajay Maken from Karnataka, BJP chief R P N Singh from Uttar Pradesh, and BJP member Samik Bhattacharya from West Bengal have been among the many 14 who took the Rajya Sabha oath.
YSRCP leaders Gola Babu Rao, Medha Raghunath Reddy, and Yerum Venkat Subba Reddy additionally took oath as members representing the state of Andhra Pradesh.
All of them later took a bunch {photograph} with the RS Chairman.
Sonia Gandhi has turn into a Rajya Sabha member for the primary time. She took oath within the presence of Chief of the Home Piyush Goyal and Congress president and Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge.
Her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was additionally current throughout her oath-taking.
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh and secretary basic P C Mody have been additionally current. (Businesses)
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