Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, 8 others take oath as MLC

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday afternoon sworn in as a Member of the Legislative Council here.

Eight other members of different political parties also took oath as members of the Upper House of Maharashtra Legislature in a brief ceremony.

Legislative Council Chairman Ramraje Nimbalkar administered the oath to the nine new members who were declared elected unopposed last week.

They include Legislative Council Deputy Chairperson and Shiv Sena's Neelam Gorhe, Nationalist Congress Party's Shashikant Shinde and Amol Mitkari and Congress' Rajesh Rathod.

From the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party the new MLCs are Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil, Ramesh Karad, Pravin Datke, and Gopichand Padalkar. (IANS) 

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