Lok Sabha sets record as 510 members take oath on a single day

With many donning traditional dress and head gears, most members took oath in their mother tongue. Some ministers, including Sushma Swaraj, did it in Sanskrit.

Yesterday, the only member who had taken oath was protem Speaker Kamal Nath before President Pranab Mukherjee in Rashtrapati Bhavan.

With the results of Lok Sabha elections bringing in a new political era, it was a scene different from the one witnessed by the House in the last ten years.

The BJP, which for the first time won a majority on its own with 282 members, occupied slightly more than half the House, accompanied by its allies which accounted for more than 50 members.