NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Conrad Sangma was among the guests present at the oath-taking ceremony of ailing finance minister Arun Jaitley before the former left for Shillong on Sunday.
The 65-year-old minister, elected to the Upper House of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh last month, was sworn in at a special ceremony because of his health condition.
The senior BJP leader is undergoing treatment for a kidney ailment.
“Took oath of office as Rajya Sabha Member representing Uttar Pradesh, April 15, 2018,” Jaitley said on Twitter.
Union ministers Ananth Kumar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goel, Hardeep S. Puri, Vijay Goel and Shiv Pratap Shukla, along with leader of the Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad, were among those present in the ceremony.