Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan administers the oath of office to senior Member of the Legislative Assembly Kalidas Sulochana Nilakantha Kolambakar as Interim Speaker of the Assembly, at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.
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Mumbai: 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.