Speaker in the State Assembly, Mata Prasad Pandey administered oath of the member of the House to 10 newly elected members in the recently held by-elections, here on Tuesday.
In the by-elections 11 new members were elected but Samajwadi Party member Vachaspati, elected from Sirathu seat was absent in the oath ceremony held at the office of the speaker in presence of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and several of his ministerial colleagues on Tuesday morning.
The new assembly members who took oath were Krishna Gopal Patel from Nighasan seat, Kaptan Singh from Charkhari seat, Mahendra Singh Patel from Rohania seat, Shivcharan Prajapati from Hamirpur seat, Nababjan Khan from Thakurdwara seat, Ms Ruchiveera from Bijnore seat and Banshidhar Baudh from Balha seat (All of the Samajwadi Party). Three newly elected members of the BJP are Ashutosh Tandon from lucknow (east), Ms Bimla Batham from Noida and Rajeev Gumbar from Saharanpur (sadar)seat.