After Sanskrit, it was the turn of Urdu as two legislators of Samajwadi Party — Alam Badi and Nafis Ahmed, both from Azamgarh — took oath of office in Urdu at Vidhan Bhawan on Wednesday. However, both legislators were also administered oath of office in Hindi by the Protem Speaker as Urdu is not a recognised language for conduct of business of UP Assembly. Three legislators- Radha Mohan Agarwal and Anand Swroop Shukla of the BJP and Vinay Shankar Tewari of the BSP took oath of office in Sanskrit on Wednesday. Earlier on Tuesday, 14 MlAs had taken oath of office in Sanskrit. Alam Badi, elected to the Assembly from Nizamabad segment for the sixth consecutive term, had staged a protest in 1996 after being denied the opportunity of taking oath of office in Urdu. He was the last member of the Assembly to take oath of office in 1996. The then State Assembly Speaker Keshari Nath Tripathi had warned Alam Badi that he runs the risk of losing membership of the House if he failed to take oath within six months of his election. A total of 63 MlAs took oath of office on Wednesday and the total number of legislators who were administered oath of office is 382 of the total 403 members in the Assembly. Prominent among those who took oath on Wednesday include Cabinet Minister Swami Prasad Maurya, SP leaders Shivpal Yadav and Azam Khan, his son Abdullah Azam, don-turned-politico Mukhtar Ansari.