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London, July 12 (HS). The newly elected Indian-origin MPs for the British Parliament's lower house 'House of Commons' took oath by placing their hands on religious texts to swear their allegiance to the Maharaja. A new copy of 'Bhagwad Gita' was presented to Hoyle by Shailesh Vara from Speaker Lind.
Shailesh Vara is a former Conservative Party MP who lost the Cambridgeshire seat in last week's general election. Rishi Sunak was also among the British Indian MPs who took oath as the leader of the opposition. Indian-origin Kanishka Narayan, who became an MP for the first time, carried the 'Gita' with him for his oath. He is contesting the election from the Vale of Glamorgan seat on a Labour Party ticket.
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Indian-origin Shivani Raja, who won the election from Leicester, also took oath with her hand on the 'Gita'. Bob Blackman, a prominent Conservative leader representing Harrow East in London and who chaired the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Hindus, decided to hold both the 'Gita' and the 'King James Bible' during his oath taking ceremony. Some British Sikh MPs like Tan Dhesi and first-time MPs Gurinder Singh Josan, Harpreet Uppal, Satvir Kaur and Varinder Singh Jass opted to take oath on Sikh scriptures. Preet Kaur Gill held a 'Sundar Gutka' wrapped in cloth in her hand during the oath taking ceremony.