Ramesh Yadav chairman of the UP legislative council on Wednesday administered the oath of office to the newly elected MlCs Naresh Uttam of the Samajwadi party and Bhimrao Ambedkar of the Bahujan Samaj party. Of the total 13 newly elected members of the council 12 have taken oath of office and the lone BJP member Mahendra Singh, minister of state for rural development is yet to take oath.
As many as 10 newly-elected members of Uttar Pradesh legislative Council had taken the oath of office on Tuesday. The biennial elections to the upper house of the UP legislature were held in April to fill 13 vacant seats in the UP Council.
The chairman of the council had also decided to give farewell to the members of the upper house of the UP legislature on Tuesday but none from the SP and the BSP turned up. On Wednesday the lone retired member of the Rashtriya lok Dal was present. The deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharmka felicitated him with a shawl.
The newly elected members who took oath on Tuesday included Sarojini Agarwal, Bukkal Nawab, Yashwant Singh, Jaiveer Singh, Vidhyasagar Sonkar, Vijay Bahadur Pathak, Ashok Kataria, Mohsin Raza and Ashok Dhawan (all BJP). Ashish Singh Patel of Apna Dal (Sonelal) an ally of the BJP.