The Impressive TimesNew Delhi, June 24. 2024: – The inaugural session of the 18th Lok Sabha commenced on Monday with the swearing-in of newly-elected Members of Parliament, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Following the national anthem and an obituary reference for members who passed away since the last session, Protem Speaker Bhartruhari Mahtab administered the oath of office, beginning with PM Modi. As Modi took his oath for a third consecutive term, opposition INDIA bloc members waved copies of the Constitution.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, along with other opposition MPs, showed copies of the Constitution to PM Modi during his oath. Union Home Minister Amit Shah received a similar greeting from the opposition shortly after.
Prominent opposition leaders, including Gandhi, Trinamool’s Kalyan Banerjee, and Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav and Awadhesh Prasad, were seated in the first row of the opposition benches.
Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Giriraj Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, Piyush Goyal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Bhupender Yadav, Kiren Rijiju, Mansukh Mandaviya, Pralhad Joshi, Dr. Jitendra Singh, and G. Kishan Reddy were among those who took the oath as Lok Sabha members.
During Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s oath, opposition members shouted slogans concerning the ongoing paper-leak scam and protests over the uncertain future of NEET (UG-2024), NEET (PG-2024), and UGC-NET 2024 exam aspirants.
Union Ministers from NDA partners, including H.D. Kumaraswamy, Chirag Paswan, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, and Anupriya Patel, also took their oaths as Lok Sabha members.
Approximately 280 newly-elected MPs took their oaths today, with the remaining 260, including Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, set to take theirs on Tuesday.
BJP MPs Radha Mohan Singh and Faggan Singh Kulaste took the oath as members of the chairperson panel. However, Congress MP K. Suresh, DMK MP T.R. Baalu, and TMC’s Sudip Bandyopadhyay skipped the oath-taking proceedings as panel members.
Earlier, President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to BJP lawmaker Bhartruhari Mahtab as the Protem Speaker of the Lok Sabha. She also appointed Suresh Kodikunnil, Thalikkottai Rajuthevar Baalu, Radha Mohan Singh, Faggan Singh Kulaste, and Sudip Bandyopadhyay to assist the Protem Speaker in administering the oath to the newly elected members.
The Lok Sabha Speaker will be elected on June 26, followed by President Murmu’s address to a joint sitting of both Houses on June 27. The session is scheduled to conclude on July 3.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju expressed his positive outlook on the coordination needed to run Parliament smoothly as the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha got underway. In a post on X, Rijiju welcomed the newly elected members and assured his availability to assist them as the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.
“The First Session of the 18th Lok Sabha begins today, June 24, 2024. I welcome all the newly elected Hon’ble members. I shall always be available to assist the members as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs,” Rijiju stated.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra was also present at the Parliament House on the first day of the session.
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