27 take oath as Rajya Sabha members

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Updated At : 11:54 AM Jul 09, 2022 IST

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New Delhi, July 8

Twenty-seven of the total 57 newly-elected members of the Rajya Sabha took oath on Friday. Vice-President and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha M Venkaiah Naidu administered the oath.

Nirmala Sitharaman take oath at Parliament House.PTI

The 27 members are from 10 states. They took oath in nine languages — 12 in Hindi, four in English, two each in Sanskrit, Kannada, Marathi and Odia and one each in Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.

Balbir Singh Seechewal take oath at Parliament House. PTI

They included Jairam Ramesh, Vivek K Tankha and Mukul Wasnik (Congress); Surendra Singh Nagar, K Laxman, Laxmikant Vajpayee (BJP); and Jayant Chaudhary, Kalpana Saini, Sulata Deo and R Dharmar.

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