Delhi Assembly First Session Wednesday Jan 01,2014

The first session of the fifth Delhi Assembly began on Wednesday Jan 01,2014 with the newly elected MLAs taking the oath of office and secrecy

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was the first to take the oath on Wednesday, followed by Manish Sisodia and other ministers.

Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Rohini, Rajesh Garg Rohiniwala, arriving in his battery-operated rickshaw to take oath at the Vidhan Sabha in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Only Dinesh Mohaniya of the AAP and Jai Kishan of the Congress were absent

While most of the MLAs took the oath in Hindi, some others did so in different languages. Anil Jha of the BJP, attired in a traditional dhoti-kurta and maithili cap, took the oath in Maithili, a regional language spoken in Bihar. The JD(U)’s Shoaib Iqbal and Congress members Haroon Yusuf, Hasan Ahmed and Mohammed Asif took the oath in Urdu. While Rajendra Nagar MLA R.P. Singh took the oath in Punjabi,  Arvinder Singh was the sole MLA to use English

The Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP Govt will seek a vote of confidence on Thursday Jan 02,2014

The Assembly session will end on January 7,2014