Except for the three Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) members, all the newly elected members of the State legislative Council took the oath of the House on Wednesday. The oath was administered by legislative Council Chairman, Ganesh Shanker Pandey in presence of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. The CM is also the member of the Upper House of the state legislature.
Recently 12 members were elected from the assembly constituency while one was elected from Kanpur-Unnao teachers consituency Arun Pathak. The three BSP members, including leader of the opposition in the Upper House, Nasimuddin Siddique, Dharamveer Ashok and Pradeep Jatav did not attend the oath ceremony.
The new members who took the oath are 8 members of the ruling Samajwadi Party including Sahab Singh Saini, Ashok Bajpai, Virendra Gujjar,Dr Sarojni Agarwal, Ahmed Hasan, Ashu Mallick, Ramesh Yadav and Ramjatan Rajbhar. BJP members laxman Prasad and Arun Pathak also took the oath in presence of several UP ministers and BJP leaders.