Newly elected BJP MLA from Talala Govind Parmar takes oath

Gandhinagar

Gujarat Assembly speaker Ganpat Vasava today administered oath of membership of the house to newly elected MLA of ruling BJP from Talala constituency of Gir-Somnath district, Mr. Govind Parmar.

With this the strength of BJP in the 182 member assembly has formally increased to 121.

Mr Parmar had won the Talala by poll, necessitated owing to the death of the then Congress MLA Jasu Barad in January this year, held on May 16. He had defeated Congress candidate and Mr. Barad’s younger brother Bhagwan Barad by a margin of over 2400 votes.

Assembly Secretary D M Patel said that Mr. Parmar was administered oath in the chamber of the speaker where Chief Minister Mrs Anandiben Patel, Minister of parliamentary affairs Bhupendrasinh Chudasma, his deputy Pardipsinh Jadeja, Ministers of state Govind Patel and Mrs Vasuben Trivedi along with BJP Chief Whip Pankaj Desai were also present.

– DeshGujarat