THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The swearing in of three legislators of the 15th Kerala Assembly was different. Manjeswaram MLA A K M Ashraf took the oath of office in Kannada. Ashraf defeated BJP state president K Surendran. The people mostly speak Kannada in Manjeswaram, a border constituency.

Moovattupuzha MLA Mathew Kuzhalnadan and Pala MLA Mani C Kappan administered the oath in English. The members took the oath of office in alphabetical order. The 53 members of the assembly are new faces.

Rema, wife of T P Chandrasekharan, who won from Vadakara, draped a sari having a picture of her husband. Ramesh Chennithala, the opposition leader of the 14th assembly, was given seat in the second row.