Overview
- Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman C. P. Radhakrishnan administered the oath at Parliament House on Thursday.
- Gupta, an Aam Aadmi Party nominee and industrialist from Punjab, took his oath in Punjabi.
- Sharma, the BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit president and a chartered accountant, took his oath in Hindi.
- Sharma previously served as a J-K cabinet minister and won the Jammu West Assembly seat in 2014.
- BJP president J. P. Nadda, Union Minister Jitendra Singh, and J-K in-charge Tarun Chugh attended, with both MPs’ families present.