Hyderabad: Newly elected MLAs on Thursday took oath in Telangana Assembly.
Pro-tem Speaker Mumtaz Ahmed Khan administered the oath of office to the newly elected members including the nominated member from the Anglo-Indian community.
While BJP’s sole MLA T Raja Singh got elected from Goshamahal constituency declared he would not take oath in presence of pro-tem Speaker from a Majlis representative
#BJP MLA Raja Singh declared he would not take oath along with the other legislators in #Telangana Assembly on jan 17 with #AIMIM MLA Aumtaz Ahmed khan as the Protem Speaker. MIM, according to Raja Singh, is a party which has MLAs vowing to eliminate 100 crore #Hindus in India pic.twitter.com/BFAk2Wq5Th
— P Pavan (@PavanJourno) January 6, 2019
Khan took oath on Wednesday as the Pro-tem Speaker, administered by Governor ESL Narasimhan at the Durbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrashekar Rao took oath as the Chief Minister of the state on December 13 last year.
TRS emerged victorious in the Telangana Assembly elections held recently, bagging 88 seats out of a total of 119 seats.
With agency inputs