Sushma Swaraj, Uma Bharti take oath in Sanskrit

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj took her oath as a member of the newly-elected 16th Lok Sabha in impeccable Sanskrit here Thursday.

The senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader was followed by party colleague Uma Bharti, union minister for water resources and Ganga rejuvenation, who also took her oath as the MP in Sanskrit.

Their party colleague and Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda took his oath in Kannada and so did Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers Ananth Kumar. They both come from Karnataka.