New Delhi, June 17
Several veteran parliamentarians, including LK Advani, HD Deve Gowda and Sushma Swaraj, who had been regulars in the Lower House for decades, were missed in the new Lok Sabha on Monday as they either did not contest the polls or lost it.
The familiar faces which were not seen included BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi, former Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, M Veerappa Moily and Jyotiraditya Scindia.
While Advani, Joshi and Mahajan did not contest the polls due to the party’s norm of not fielding leaders older than 75 years, Swaraj had not contested the polls, citing ill health.
Former Prime Minister Gowda and Congress leaders Kharge, Moilly and Scindia lost the Lok Sabha polls. While AIADMK leader and former Deputy Speaker M Thambidurai and Akali Dal leader Prem Singh Chandumajra lost the polls, BJD leader Tathagata Satpathy did not contest the polls. — PTI
17th Lok Sabha gets going
- Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a total of 320 newly elected MPs took oath as the members of 17th Lok Sabha on Monday.
- Linguistic diversity was witnessed in the Lok Sabha as newly elected members took oath in English as well as different Indian languages, including Sanskrit.
- The Lok Sabha will have a total of 30 sittings and the Rajya Sabha 27 sittings till July 26. The first two days of the session will be used for administering the oath of office to all Lok Sabha MPs by Pro Tem Speaker Virender Kumar. photos: Mukesh Aggarwal/ PTI
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