Life’s back to Delhi Assembly as MLAs and well-wishers gather for
oath-taking on Monday. (Source: Express Photo Praveen Khanna)
Written by Mayura Janwalkar
| New Delhi |
Published on:February 24, 2015 2:44 am
The first sitting of the sixth Delhi Assembly was marked by a
stand-off between the newly-elected speaker and leader of the BJP
legislature party, cheering and hooting crowd in the visitors gallery
and MLA’s oaths taken in six different languages.
Delhi’s 67 new MLAs belonging to the AAP and the three from the BJP were sworn in on Monday afternoon followed by the election of the Speaker and his deputy on the floor of the House.
If the proceedings during the Assembly session held on Monday are any indicator of things to come, the BJP’s trio may have to do more to be heard in the 70-member assembly dominated by the AAP.
Even as the AAP’s MLAs endorsed the appointment of Shahdara MLA Ram Niwas Goel as the speaker, BJP’s Om Prakash Sharma made an attempt to flash a vernacular daily that carried a news article about a FIR filed against Goel.
Sharma, however, managed to say, “There is a news item today..” before his voice was drowned in the desk-tapping by AAP MLAs who unanimously agreed with the appointment of Goel as Speaker and Bandana Kumari as deputy Speaker. Minutes later, Sharma was in the middle of AAP MLAs shaking Goel’s hand and congratulating him.
The visitors gallery was packed with families of MLAs who wanted to witness the oath-taking. Despite repeated requests not to clap, the crowd continued to applaud and cheer as their MLAs.
While most MLAs took their oath in Hindi, three of them took it in Bhojpuri, three in Punjabi, two in Urdu, two in English and Kapil Sharma, MLA from Karawal Nagar, who was the last to be sworn-in, took his oath in Sanskrit.”
“About four days ago we were asked which language we would like to take our oath in. I chose Sanskrit because our country has a deep-rooted connection with Sanskrit and I am very comfortable with the language,” Sharma told Newsline.
Kirari MLA Rituraj Jha, who took his oath in Bhojpuri, stood out with his magenta cap, red kurta and dhoti. On the Assembly floor, MLA Nitin Tyagi was seen trying on Jha’s cap and fist-bumping MLA Kumari Sarita Singh after she took her oath.
The crowd cheered the loudest for S K Bagga, MLA from Krishna Nagar, who defeated BJP’s CM candidate Kiran Bedi.http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/aam-aadmi-party-begins-at-delhi-house-with-67-cheers/
Delhi’s 67 new MLAs belonging to the AAP and the three from the BJP were sworn in on Monday afternoon followed by the election of the Speaker and his deputy on the floor of the House.
If the proceedings during the Assembly session held on Monday are any indicator of things to come, the BJP’s trio may have to do more to be heard in the 70-member assembly dominated by the AAP.
Even as the AAP’s MLAs endorsed the appointment of Shahdara MLA Ram Niwas Goel as the speaker, BJP’s Om Prakash Sharma made an attempt to flash a vernacular daily that carried a news article about a FIR filed against Goel.
Sharma, however, managed to say, “There is a news item today..” before his voice was drowned in the desk-tapping by AAP MLAs who unanimously agreed with the appointment of Goel as Speaker and Bandana Kumari as deputy Speaker. Minutes later, Sharma was in the middle of AAP MLAs shaking Goel’s hand and congratulating him.
The visitors gallery was packed with families of MLAs who wanted to witness the oath-taking. Despite repeated requests not to clap, the crowd continued to applaud and cheer as their MLAs.
While most MLAs took their oath in Hindi, three of them took it in Bhojpuri, three in Punjabi, two in Urdu, two in English and Kapil Sharma, MLA from Karawal Nagar, who was the last to be sworn-in, took his oath in Sanskrit.”
“About four days ago we were asked which language we would like to take our oath in. I chose Sanskrit because our country has a deep-rooted connection with Sanskrit and I am very comfortable with the language,” Sharma told Newsline.
Kirari MLA Rituraj Jha, who took his oath in Bhojpuri, stood out with his magenta cap, red kurta and dhoti. On the Assembly floor, MLA Nitin Tyagi was seen trying on Jha’s cap and fist-bumping MLA Kumari Sarita Singh after she took her oath.
The crowd cheered the loudest for S K Bagga, MLA from Krishna Nagar, who defeated BJP’s CM candidate Kiran Bedi.http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/aam-aadmi-party-begins-at-delhi-house-with-67-cheers/
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