YSR Congress Party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was, on Thursday, sworn in as a Lok Sabha member from Kadapa.
YSR Congress Party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was, on Thursday, sworn in as a member of the Lok Sabha from Kadapa, at 11.01am, in the Central Hall.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar administered the oath.
Jaganmohan Reddy took the oath in his mother tongue, Telugu, and in the name of God.
Apart from his wife Bharati and other family members who were watching the proceedings from the visitors' gallery, a large number of his supporters, waving party flags, gathered outside the Parliament on the occasion, since it was the formal entry of the YSR Congress Party in Parliament.
Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani and Yashwant Sinha, and other Opposition members congratulated Jagan.
Incidentally, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi and Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee were not present in the House during the swearing-in ceremony.
Earlier, Jagan's loyalist MPs Sabbam Hari and Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy accompanied him to the Speaker's podium.
Jagan had won a landslide victory in the by-elections to the Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency, with a record margin of 5,21,000 votes. The by-elections, held in May this year, were necessitated after Jagan resigned from the Lok Sabha as well as from the primary membership of the Congress party after being denied permission to take out his Odarpu Yatra.
The Odarpu Yata is a tour to console the families of those who died of shock or committed suicides allegedly owing to the death of former chief minister, Jagan's father, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. (INN)