Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that UP’s Upper House is ‘India’s youngest House’ with majority of the new members taking oath on Wednesday were young and full of new ideas.
“This House now looks young thereby comprising the youngest Upper House of the country. The onus is now on these new members to fulfill the aspirations of the people,” Yadav said after the oath taking ceremony.
Chairman of legislative Council, Om Prakash Sharma administered oath to 35 newly-elected members. Thirty-one of them are from the Samajwadi Party and maority of them belong to the coterie of the Chief Minister.
“I am myself a member of the Upper House. I expect these young legislators to learn from their seniors and I personally hope that the senior members will co-operate with the new members and guide them,” he said.
The CM declared that these new legislators are entitled to get 100 hand pumps and 10 houses under the lohia Awas Yojana. They can also select lohia villages and the administration would be asked to provide basic facilities there.
Speaking about the achievements of his government, Yadav said that 45 lakh families, who were not getting any benefit from government schemes, would be entitled for Samajwadi Pension Schemes. He did not forget to remind them that highways have been built and infrastructure was being given a push by launching power projects by his government.
The CM said that when he took oath as a member of the legislative Council, the strength of the Opposition parties in the Upper House was more than the ruling benches which has now reveresed.
Uttar Pradesh has a bicameral assembly, with directly elected MlAs in the Vidhan Sabha and indirectly elected MlCs in the Vidhan Parishad. Several members of ‘Team Akhilesh Yadav’ made their debut to the House with two — Anand Bhadauria and Sunil Singh Yadav — being elected unopposed from Sitapur and lucknow-Unnao. Akhilesh loyalists Santosh Yadav Sunny and Pushpraj Jain also won from Basti and Etawah, respectively.
Arvind Yadav, a family member of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, was declared elected unopposed from Mathura-Etah constituency.
Of the 36 legislative Council seats that went to the polls, the SP romped home with 31. The Bahujan Samaj Party managed just two seats, Independents two and the Congress bagged the Rae Bareli seat.