<p> Prime Minister Narendra Modi today freely mingled with leaders of various opposition parties as he attended the Rajya Sabha proceedings.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Modi arrived few minutes before the Upper House proceedings began and went around greeting opposition leaders seated in the front rows.<br /><br />He greeted Congress leaders A K Antony, Anand Sharma and Pramod Tiwari, as well as Mayawati and Satish Mishra of BSP.<br /><br />He shook hands with Dilip Kumar Tikey of BJD and greeted Sukhendu Sekhar Roy (TMC). He then moved into aisle where he met Left leaders including Sitaram Yechury and T K Rangarajan.<br /><br />Modi had a brief but an animated chat with Yechury during which he also placed his arm on his shoulder as well as that of Ramaswamy.<br /><br />As the House proceedings began, the Prime Minister sat at his designated seat next to the Leader of the House and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.<br /><br />He was in the House when five new members including Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Swapan Dasgupta and Subramanian Swamy took oath or affirmation of allegiance to the Constitution.<br /><br />Members after taking oath greeted him with folded hands and he warmly acknowledged their greetings. Modi left the House immediately after the oath ceremony ended.<br /><br />While Dhindsa took oath in Punjabi, Dasgupta used his mother-tongue Bengali to take oath. Swamy chose English for the purpose.<br /><br />Olympic medalist boxer M C Mary Kom and Narendra Jadhav, member or erstwhile National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, also took oath.<br /><br />The government had last week nominated Swamy, former cricketer-turned-politican Navjot Singh Sidhu, Jadhav and Kom to the Upper House. Malayalam actor Suresh Gopi and journalist Dasgupta and Kom were also nominated.<br />Sidhu and Gopi are yet to take oath.</p>
<p> Prime Minister Narendra Modi today freely mingled with leaders of various opposition parties as he attended the Rajya Sabha proceedings.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Modi arrived few minutes before the Upper House proceedings began and went around greeting opposition leaders seated in the front rows.<br /><br />He greeted Congress leaders A K Antony, Anand Sharma and Pramod Tiwari, as well as Mayawati and Satish Mishra of BSP.<br /><br />He shook hands with Dilip Kumar Tikey of BJD and greeted Sukhendu Sekhar Roy (TMC). He then moved into aisle where he met Left leaders including Sitaram Yechury and T K Rangarajan.<br /><br />Modi had a brief but an animated chat with Yechury during which he also placed his arm on his shoulder as well as that of Ramaswamy.<br /><br />As the House proceedings began, the Prime Minister sat at his designated seat next to the Leader of the House and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.<br /><br />He was in the House when five new members including Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Swapan Dasgupta and Subramanian Swamy took oath or affirmation of allegiance to the Constitution.<br /><br />Members after taking oath greeted him with folded hands and he warmly acknowledged their greetings. Modi left the House immediately after the oath ceremony ended.<br /><br />While Dhindsa took oath in Punjabi, Dasgupta used his mother-tongue Bengali to take oath. Swamy chose English for the purpose.<br /><br />Olympic medalist boxer M C Mary Kom and Narendra Jadhav, member or erstwhile National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, also took oath.<br /><br />The government had last week nominated Swamy, former cricketer-turned-politican Navjot Singh Sidhu, Jadhav and Kom to the Upper House. Malayalam actor Suresh Gopi and journalist Dasgupta and Kom were also nominated.<br />Sidhu and Gopi are yet to take oath.</p>