Uttar Pradesh Assembly Protem Speaker Fateh Bahadur administered the oath of office to newly elected MlAs in a swearing-in ceremony held here on Tuesday. Chief Minister Aditya Nath Yogi was present at the oath ceremony of the newly elected MlAs in State Assembly.
For the first time in the history of the UP Assembly over a dozen newly elected MlAs took oath of office in Sanskrit. All these members are first timers in State Assembly.
Senior BJP leader Hridya Naryan Dikshit is all set to be elected as the new Speaker of the Assembly. He will file his nomination papers at 11 am on Wednesday before the returning officer Pradeep Kumar Dube, the principal secretary of the Assembly. Sources said Dikshit is set to be elected unopposed as no other nomination will be filed for this post. He will be formally declared elected on Thursday.
Out of the total 403 members in State Assembly 319 MlAs were administered oath of the office by the Protem Speaker and four other senior members of the house appointed by the State Governor Ram Naik for administering oath of office to the newly elected MlAs. The Governor had administered the oath of Protem Speaker to Fateh Bahadur and four other senior members of the house including Durga Prasad Yadav, Rampal Verma, Faghu Chauhan, and Ramveer Upadhaya.
First all the members of the members of the council of Ministers were administered oath of office followed by the 40 women members of the house. later the MlAs from each district were called to take oath of office. Among the Ministers Surya Pratap Shahi was first to take oath of office. As per the protocol of the present Cabinet he enjoys the number two position in the Cabinet after the Chief Minister. The leader of opposition Ram Govind Chowdhary who is from the Samajwadi Party also took oath of office on Tuesday.
The other Ministers who took oath include Suresh Khanna, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Rajesh Agarwal, Swami Prasad Maurya, Dharm Pal Singh, Satish Mahana, Dara Singh Chauhan, Satyadev Pachauri, Satyapal Singh Baghel, Nand Gopal Nandi, Ramapati Shashtri, Jai Pratap Singh, Brijesh Pathak, Om Prakash Rajbhar, Chowdhary laxmi Narayan, Chetan Chauhan, Srikant Sharma, Rajedra Pratap Singh, Mukut Bihari Verrma, Sidhharth Nath Singh, Ashutosh Tondon, Archana Pandey, Anupama Jaiswal, Suresh Rana, Upendra Tewari, Dharm Singh Saini, Anil Rajbhar, Swati Singh, Gulab Devi, Jai Prakash Nishad and Jai Kumar took the oath of office.