36 newly-elected MLCs take oath
LUCKNOW : All the 36 newly elected members of the UP Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad) were administered oath in the presence of chief minister Yogi Adityanath here on Tuesday. Council chairman Kunwar Manvendra Singh administered the oath to the new MLCs at a simple ceremony at Tilak Hall here. Besides CM Yogi Adityanath, prominent among those who attended the function included deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya besides parliamentary affairs and finance minister Suresh Khanna. Thirty-three of the 36 members who took oath belonged the ruling Bharaitya Janata Party (BJP) that registered a resounding victory in the MLC (local body polls) recently .
Two candidates namely Annapurna Singh and Vikrant Singh took oath as independents while Akshay Pratap Singh took oath as the member of Raghuraj Pratap aka Raja Bhaiya’s political outfit Jansatta Dal (Lok Tantrik).
New MLCs and their constituencies
Satya Pal Singh (Moradabad-Bijnor), Kunwar Maharaj Singh (Rampur-Bareilly), Vagish Pathak (Budaun), Sudhir Gupta (Pilibhit-Shahjhanpur), Ashok Kumar (Hardoi), Anoop Kumar Gupta (Kheri), Pawan Kumar Singh (Sitapur), Ram Chandra Pradhan (Lucknow-Unnao), Dinesh Pratap Singh (Rae Barelli), Akshay Pratap Singh (Pratapgarh), Shailendra Pratap Singh (Sultanpur), Angad Kumar Singh (Barabanki), Pragya Tripathi (Bahraich), Avdhesh Kuamr Singh alias Maju Singh (Gonda), Hariom Pandey (Faizabad) Subhashchandra alias Subhash Ya du van sh( B as ti-Siddh ar th na gar), CP Ch and( Go rak hp ur Ma ha ra jg anj), R at an Pal Singh (Deoria), Vikrant Singh alias Rishu (Azamgarh-Mau), Ravi Shankar Singh “Pappu Bhaiya” (Ballia), Vishal Singh “Chanchal” (Ghazipur), Brajesh Kumar Singh “Prinsu” (Jaunpur), Annapurna Singh alias Poonam Singh (Varanasi), Shyam Narayan Singh (Mirzapur-Sonbhadra), KP Srivastava (Allahabad), Jitendra Singh Senger (Banda-Hamirpur), Rama Niranjan (Jhansi-JalaunLalitpur), Avinash Chauhan ( Kanpur-Fatehpur), Pranshu Dutt Dwivedi (Etawah-Farrukhabad), Vijay Shivhare ( Agra-Firozabd), Ashih Kumar Yadav (Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri), Om Prakash (MathuraEtah-Mainpuri), Narednra Singh Bhati (Bulandshahr), Dharmendra Kumar Bhardwaj (Meerut-Ghaziabad) and Vanda naVe rm a(Muzaf far na gar Sahara np ur ).