Jammu, Nov. 22 -- Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather on Friday administered the oath to two newly elected MLAs, Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi and Devyani Rana.

PDP's Mehdi has been elected from the Budgam Assembly constituency, while Devyani Rana of the BJP has been elected from the Nagrota constituency.

Mehdi took the oath in Urdu and Rana in Dogri.

Rana, on Friday, broke a new glass ceiling by winning the assembly bypoll from the Nagrota constituency, as Jammu and Kashmir will now have four elected women legislators for the first time.

Devyani won the Nagrota assembly by-election, defeating her closest rival, Harsh Dev Singh of the Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP), by a margin of over 24,000 v...