Overview
- Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan administered the oath at a brief ceremony in Parliament House on Thursday.
- Rajinder Gupta of the Aam Aadmi Party, elected from Punjab, took the oath in Punjabi.
- Sat Paul Sharma of the Bharatiya Janata Party, representing Jammu and Kashmir, took the oath in Hindi.
- BJP leaders J. P. Nadda, Union Minister Jitendra Singh, and J‑K in‑charge Tarun Chugh attended, with both MPs’ families present.
- Gupta is an industrialist nominated by AAP, while Sharma serves as BJP’s J‑K president, is a chartered accountant, is a former J‑K cabinet minister, and won the Jammu West Assembly seat in 2014 by 51,000 votes.