T’puram/Kozhikode: AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi who was elected from Wayanad parliamentary constituency will take oath as Lok Sabha MP on Thursday. Congress leaders said that the swearing-in will take place at 11am.
Priyanka’s chief election agent K L Poulose along with UDF leaders handed over the election certificate to Priyanka in Delhi on Wednesday in the presence of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and AICC general secretary KC Venugopal. Venugopal told media that the first issue that Priyanka would raise in the parliament would be the delay by the Centre in announcing special package for Wayanad landslide victims.
Meanwhile, Priyanka will make her first visit to Wayanad as MP on Saturday and Sunday during which she will attend reception meetings to thank voters following her stellar victory.
Rahul, Pradeep to swear in as MLAs on Dec 4: Rahul Mamkootathil and U R Pradeep, who were elected from the Palakkad and Chelakkara assembly constituencies in the bypoll, will be sworn in as MLAs on Dec 4.
The decision was taken by the assembly secretariat. The swearing-in ceremony will be held at the R Sankaranarayanan Thampi lounge in the assembly complex at 12 noon.
This is the first time Mamkootathil is elected to the state assembly. He won the Palakkad seat by a margin of 18,724 votes, defeating P Sarin of the LDF. However, for Pradeep, this is the second stint as an MLA in the assembly. He earlier represented the Chelakkara constituency during the period from 2016 to 2021. He won the Chelakkara bypoll by a margin of 12,122 votes, defeating Remya Haridas of the Congress.
Courtesy : TOI
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