Mumbai, Dec 7 (PTI) The Maharashtra legislative assembly on Saturday witnessed the country’s famed linguistic diversity with 200 newly-elected members taking oath as MLAs in Marathi, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and Sindhi.
Of the 200 members, 190 took oath in Marathi.
Seven MLAs, all from the BJP — Girish Mahajan, Seema Hire, Prashant Thakur, Sudhir Gadgil, Nitesh Rane, Pratap Adsad and Ram Kadam — took oath in Sanskrit. Mahajan took oath in Sanskrit for the seventh time.
Samajwadi Party’s Abu Azmi took oath in Hindi, while Mufti Mohammad Khalique of the All Indian Majlid e Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) took it in Urdu.
BJP’s Kumar Ailani took oath in Sindhi. PTI PR BNM
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