Virtual opposition!
The Opposition’s case for holding virtual meetings of parliamentary committees weakened significantly with most of its newly elected MPs attending the oath-taking ceremony on Wednesday. Of the 61 newly elected members of the Rajya Sabha, 45 were administered the oath of office by Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu. Among those who took oath were senior leaders like the Nationalist Congress Party’s Sharad Pawar, and the Congress’s Mallikarjun Kharge and Digvijaya Singh. However, none of the four Trinamool Congress’s (TMC's) newly elected MPs turned up. TMC MP Derek O’Brien, who is also the Opposition leader in the Rajya Sabha, has already