"Took an oath as a Rajya Sabha member to uphold the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and the dignity of the House. I'll give the Punjabi people and the country my all. Harbhajan tweeted, "Jai Hind, Jai Bharat," along with a video of him taking the oath.
Digital Desk: On
Monday, during the opening day of the Monsoon session of Parliament, former
Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh took the oath required to serve as a
representative from Punjab in the Rajya Sabha. The former
cricketer-turned-politician, 42, took the oath to serve in the Rajya Sabha
along with roughly 25 other leaders.
"Took an oath
as a Rajya Sabha member to uphold the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and the
dignity of the House. I'll give the Punjabi people and the country my all.
Harbhajan tweeted, "Jai Hind, Jai Bharat," along with a video of him
taking the oath.
Misa Bharti, the
daughter of former Bihar state minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rajeev Shukla, vice
president of the BCCI, A Rao Meena, Vijay Sai Reddy, Kheeru Mahto, Shambhala
Saran Patel, Ranjeet Ranjan, Maharashtra Majhi, Aditya Prasad, Praful Patel,
Imran Pratapgarhi, Sanjay Raut, Sas
Others who took
the oath included Randeep Singh Surjewal, P Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal, R Girl
Rajan, S Kalyan Sundaram, KRN Rajesh Kumar, Javed Ali Khan, and V Vijendra
Prasad.
Due to various
circumstances, renowned former athlete PT Usha (from Kerala) and iconic music
composer Ilaiyaraaja (from Tamil Nadu) were unable to attend the Rajya Sabha to
take the oath.
On the opening day
of the Monsoon session of Parliament, newly elected representatives from
various political parties took their oaths.
Later, references
to obituaries for a number of dignitaries who just passed away were read.
Shinzo Abe, Sheikh
Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Mwai Kibaki, three former presidents of the
United Arab Emirates, were also honoured by the Rajya Sabha.
Funeral expenses
were also paid for previous members Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Kishore Kumar
Mohanty, Robert Kharshiing, and K. K. Veerappan.
Later,
PC Mody, the secretary general of the Rajya Sabha, also placed a statement (in
English and Hindi) on the table listing the bills that had received the
President's assent and been passed by the Houses of Parliament during the 256th
session of the Rajya Sabha
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