Lucknow. The swearing-in ceremony of the elected members of the Eighteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh will begin on Monday. Members will be administered the oath of membership of the House on Monday and Tuesday in the Vidhan Sabha Pavilion. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be the first to take oath as the Leader of the House.
Governor Anandiben Patel has nominated five senior members of the Legislative Assembly to administer the oath to the elected members. These five members include Suresh Kumar Khanna, Rampal Verma, Jai Pratap Singh and Fateh Bahadur Singh of BJP and Mata Prasad Pandey of SP. Barring Fateh Bahadur Singh, the governor has administered oath to the remaining nominated members on March 26 at Raj Bhavan.
The swearing-in program of the elected members will start from 11 am. At the same time, before the oath, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will also address the media in the Legislative Assembly at 10:30 am.
According to tradition, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be administered the oath as the first leader of the House in the Vidhan Sabha Pavilion on Monday. After this, Akhilesh Yadav will take oath as the Leader of Opposition. Then the nominated member Fateh Bahadur Singh, who was left out of taking oath, will take oath.
Thereafter, the members of the Council of Ministers who have been elected as members of the Legislative Assembly will take oath. After this the oath will be administered to the women members of the House. Then the constituency-wise members will be administered the oath. The Legislative Council Secretariat has sent information about the oath-taking ceremony and participation to the newly elected members through the District Magistrates related to their constituencies.
The election of the Speaker of the 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh will be held on March 29. Nomination papers for this will be filled before 2 pm on Monday. On March 29, elections will be held in the Vidhan Sabha Pavilion at 3 pm. The election of Satish Mahana, a senior BJP leader on the post of Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and elected MLA from Maharajpur seat of Kanpur, is believed to be almost certain. Mahana has been elected MLA for the eighth time.
It is worth mentioning that in the Eighteenth Legislative Assembly, 255 of the ruling BJP, 111 of the SP, 12 of the Apna Dal (S), eight of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, six each of the Nishad Party and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, two of the Congress, one of the BSP, Two members of Jansatta Dal Loktantrik have been elected.
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