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NEET-UG, PRO-TEM SPEAKER ISSUES DOMINATE DAY 1 OF 18TH LOK SABHA
The Daily Guardian
|June 25, 2024
The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha began on Monday with several prominent leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, taking oaths as Members of Parliament.
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- Speaker will be elected on June 26.
- President Murmu is scheduled to address a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament on June 27.
Union Ministers G. Kishan Reddy, Chirag Paswan, Kiren Rijiju, Nitin Gadkari, and Mansukh Mandaviya also took oaths as members of the Lok Sabha.
Union Ministers Bhupender Yadav, Giriraj Singh, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, JD(U) MP Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, BJP MP Piyush Goyal, and Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also took oaths as members.
Before the beginning of the first session of Lok Sabha, BJP MP Bhartruhari Mahtab was sworn in as the pro-tem Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha. The oath was administered by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The Lok Sabha Speaker will be elected on June 26. On June 27, President Murmu is scheduled to address a joint sitting of both Hous-es of Parliament. The Opposition MPs of the I.N.D.I.A bloc, meanwhile, reacted sharply to the appointment of the seven-time MP as the protem speaker, saying that the appointment deviates from the traditional practice of appointing the seniormost member.
This story is from the June 25, 2024 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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