Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Saturday urged Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to come up with an advisory for maintaining the sanctity of oath-taking process by law-makers.
Koshyari observed some newly-elected members of Parliament/ state legislatures are departing from the prescribed form of language for oath-taking and adding names of their party leaders or venerable personalities while reading oaths.
Koshyari's demand came against the backdrop of Naidu, the Rajya Sabha chairman, expressing his disapproval over BJP's Udayanraje Bhosale raising slogans like 'Jai Hind, Jai Maharashtra, Jai Bhawani, Jai Shivaji' after taking oath as an MP recently.
The governor has raised this demand in his letters to the presiding officers of the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha, the Raj Bhavan has said in a release.
He said that such advisory needed to be adhered to in the context of the form and oath being read out by members.
Such directions were needed to preserve the "sanctity and dignity" of the oath-taking process, the governor wrote.