New Delhi, March 7 -- Twenty-four retired civil services officers from the IAS, IPS, IFS and the IRS wrote a letter on Wednesday to Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar urging him to not administer the oath of office to newly elected Rajya Sabha member Naseer Hussain till the completion of judicial proceedings on the raising of "Pakistan Zindabad" slogans are complete. These slogans were made during Hussain's victory celebration in the Karnataka Assembly premises.

"It has come to our notice through the press that upon the results of the recent Rajya Sabha Elections by the Election Commission of India declaring Syed Naseer Hussain to have been elected to Parliament from the State of Karnataka, some of the chosen supports of Syed Naseer Hussain...