Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla also took exception to members adding extra statements at the beginning or end of their oath and said that it is beyond the constitutional regulations
Although protocols that were put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic have been dispensed with, journalists have restricted access to galleries in the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha
After being elected as the Lok Sabha Speaker through a voice vote, Om Birla had condemned the Emergency imposed by then prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1975