Lawmakers of the Bagmati Provincial Assembly took the oath of office and secrecy on Thursday.

Ram Prasad Dhungana, the senior-most member of the Assembly, administered the oath of office and secrecy to 109 lawmakers at the Provincial Assembly building in Hetauda, the provincial capital. Among them, 13 took the oath in their mother tongue.

Earlier on Wednesday, 72-year-old Dhungana was administered the oath of office and secrecy as the senior-most member in the Assembly by Yadav Chandra Sharma, the head of Bagmati Province, at the latter’s office.

Meanwhile, Sharma has called the first session of the newly-elected Assembly for January 2 next year at 1 pm.

The session has been called, in accordance with Article 183 of the Constitution, on the recommendation made by the provincial Council of Ministers to the Head of the Province on Wednesday.

In the 110-member assembly, 66 were elected through First-Past-The-Post and 44 through the proportional ballot. The lawmakers in the Assembly represent seven parties—Nepali Congress is the largest party with 37 seats.

Similarly, CPN-UML has 27 seats, CPN (Maoist Centre) 21, Rastriya Prajatantra Party 13, CPN (Unified Socialist) seven, Nepal Majdoor Kishan Party three and Hamro Nepali Party two.