Others to violate the rule during oath-taking for new Karnataka assembly was BJP's Basanagouda Patil who swore on 'Hindutva & Goumata'. Several others took oath in the name of local deities.
Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu urged the 45 members, including 36 first-timers, to uphold rules and procedures while discharging their duties as lawmakers.
Bengaluru’s traffic congestion is said to be the worst in India, and rains and the arrival of 23 leaders for Kumaraswamy's oath-taking ceremony made 23 May a particularly chaotic day.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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