Madhusudan Mistry, pitted against BJP leader Narendra Modi in the Vadodra lok Sabha seat, is among ten people who took oath as the Rajya Sabha members on Tuesday. BJP’s CP Thakur (Bihar) and Viplove Thakur (Himachal Pradesh) and Wansuk Syiem (Meghalaya), both from the Congress, were the three members re-elected to the Upper House in the recently held biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha. The 10 took oath in the Chamber of Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari in Parliament House.
Other members who took oath on Tuesday are Congress’ Mohd Ali Khan (Andhra Pradesh), BJP’s lal Sinh Vadodia (Gujarat), INlD’s Ram Kumar Kashyap, Independent member from Maharashtra Sanjay Dattatraya Kakade and Odisha’s Sarojini Hembram and Kalpataru Das, both from the BJD, a statement from the Rajya Sabha secretariat said.