Loksabha Adjourned for day

New Delhi Feb 5: The Lok Sabha On Monday was adjourned for the day after paying tributes to BJP member Hukum Singh, who died on Saturday.

Three new members -Congress members from Rajasthan Karan Singh Yadav and Raghu Sharma as well as TMC member from West Bengal Sajda Ahmed have taken oath in the lower house.

Yadav has been elected from Alwar while Sharma and Ahmed represent Ajmer and Uluberia constituencies, respectively.

After the members took oath, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan made the obituary reference about Hukum Singh, who represented Kairana constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

The House stood in silence for a brief while as a mark of respect for the departed soul before the proceedings were adjourned.Currently, there is a practice for adjourning the house for a day if a sitting MP of present session dies.