Azad, Soz take oath as Rajya Sabha members.Byline: ANI New Delhi, Feb 16 (ANI): Senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad Ghulam Nabi Azad (born March 7, 1949 in Jammu and Kashmir, India) is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress. He was the Parliamentary Affairs Minister of India in the Manmohan Singh government until October 27, when he was appointed as the chief minister of the and Saifuddin Soz took oath on Monday as members of the Rajya Sabha. While Azad, a former Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir: see Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir State (pop., 2001: 10,143,700), northern India. With an area of 39,146 sq mi (101,387 sq km), it occupies the southern portion of the Kashmir region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent and is Chief Minister took his oath in English, Union Minister for Water Resources Soz took his in Kashmiri. Both leaders shook hands with other members of the House after the ceremony. Ghulam Nabi Azad was the Parliamentary Affairs Minister of India in the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh until October 27, 2005, before his appointment as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Soz served as Minister of Environment and Forests in the 1990s and has been a long-time Member of Parliament. In January 2006, he was nominated to the Congress Working Committee. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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