Nine members of Rajya Sabha take oath
New Delhi, August 21 2023.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar was among nine MPs who took the oath as members of the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
The oath was administered by Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar in the Rajya Sabha chamber in Parliament House.
Jaishankar took the oath in English. This is his second term as a Rajya Sabha MP. He was first elected in 2019.
Besides Jaishankar, the other BJP members who took the oath are Babubhai Jesangbhai Desai (Gujarat), Kesridevsinh Digvijaysinh Jhala (Gujarat), and Nagendra Ray (West Bengal).
Five Trinamool Congress MPs -- Derek O'Brien, Dola Sen, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Prakash Chik Baraik and Samirul Islam -- also took the oath. O'Brien, Sen, Islam and Ray took the oath in Bengali.
Of the nine members who took oath on Monday, five...
