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New Delhi: HD Kumaraswamy, the Member of Parliament (MP) from Mandya, took his oath as a Lok Sabha MP today in Kannada.
The former chief minister of Karnataka had won by a margin of 2,84,620 votes against his nearest rival Venkataramane Gowda (alias ‘Star’ Chandru) of the Congress in the Vokkaliga heartland of Mandya.
Earlier in the day, B Mahtab took oath as member of the new House as well as that of pro-tem speaker at Rashtrapati Bhavan. PM Modi and other prominent cabinet ministers also took oath.