Jcd Prabhakar to oversee oath delay after Keerthana forgets certificate
S. Keerthana arrived for the Tamil Nadu Assembly oath-taking ceremony in Chennai on May 11, 2026, without her certificate of election and did not take the oath when her name was called. jcd prabhakar is tied to the day’s proceedings as the Assembly handled a delay that affected the 17th Legislative Assembly’s first sitting.
She was called as the 10th legislator after the Chief Minister and eight Ministers. The Assembly Secretariat had asked newly elected members to “bring the certificate of election without fail” when they presented themselves for making and subscribing the oath or affirmation.
Chennai Assembly oath-taking
Keerthana later produced the certificate to Assembly officials and took the oath. She is a Tamil Nadu Minister from the TVK and an MLA, and her appearance came during the first day of the 17th Legislative Assembly.
The sequence in Chennai showed that the certificate request was not treated as a formality. When Keerthana reached the oath stage without the document, the ceremony moved on until she produced it later in the day.
Secretariat certificate request
Several newly elected members had the same problem. Many failed to bring the certificate of election and could not take oath when their names were called out, then later produced the certificates and took the oath.
That created a practical requirement for members heading into the chamber: the election certificate had to be with them at the moment they were called. For anyone taking part in the oath or affirmation process, the day did not end with the first call if the paper was missing.
Keerthana and other members
Vijay attended as Chief Minister, with Udhayanidhi and Palaniswami among the people named in the day’s proceedings. The immediate consequence was a delayed oath-taking sequence, not a change in the membership outcome for those who later returned with the required certificate.
By the end of the day, the Assembly had taken oath from members who initially could not proceed. The first session’s opening ceremony ended with the same requirement applying to everyone who still had to present the certificate, and the process moved only after that document was produced.
