House sitting marred by Oppn MPs on chairpersons panel skipping oath

The swearing-in of newly-elected Lok Sabha members was disrupted on Monday when opposition members on the panel of chairpersons, nominated by the President, refused to take their oaths to avoid presiding over the session without pro tem Speaker Bhartruhari Mahtab. The three opposition MPs, K Suresh (Congress), Sudip Bandyopadhyay (Trinamool Congress), and T R Balu (DMK), missed the oath-taking. They were scheduled to take their oaths just after PM Modi and before the council of ministers.