Union Minister Piyush Goyal and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh greet each other. PTI
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.
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.
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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