Newly-elected MLAs take oath in Jammu and Kashmir, pledge to serve people

Newly-elected legislators from the BJP and People Democratic Party (PDP) connected Friday (November 21, 2025) took oath and pledged to service their constituencies. 

J&K Legislative Assembly Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather administered the oath to 2 newly-elected MLAs, Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi and Devyani Rana. 

Mr. Mehdi won from Budgam Assembly constituency successful the Kashmir part and Devyani Rana from the Nagrota constituency successful the Jammu part earlier this period successful the by-elections. Mr. Mehdi took oath successful Urdu and Devyani Rana successful Dogri.

“I americium honoured and privileged to beryllium sworn successful arsenic an MLA of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly taking the oath successful Dogri and to service arsenic a legislator. I privation to convey Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Ji for her blessings. Under the visionary enactment of Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Honourable Home Minister Amit Shah ji, BJP President J.P. Nadda ji, we volition proceed to enactment towards a Viksit Jammu and Kashmir which has transformed owed to the statesman outlook of PM Modi,” Ms. Rana said.

Mr. Mehdi said the existent preservation contented has pushed a peculiar conception to the wall. “I deliberation much than unemployment reservation remains the burning issue. We volition registry our protests against it. People person voted for maine due to the fact that the existent authorities failed to present aft getting a monolithic mandate from the radical successful 2024. I volition basal enarthrosis to enarthrosis with my radical to code their problems,” Mr. Mehdi said.