Sudhanshu Shekhar, who won Harlakhi bypoll on an RLSP ticket, had a day of contrasts on his first day in the Assembly on Friday.

As soon as soon the Assembly session began, Speaker Vijay Kumar Choudhary announced the name of Sudhanshu, 27, asking him to take oath. As being a first-time MLA, the Speaker instructed the procedure of taking oath and the tradition of signing the register kept near the reporter.

Lalan Paswan, another RLSP MLA sitting next to Sudhanshu, asked him to follow the Speaker's instruction. After taking oath, Sudhanshu signed the register and shook hand with chief minister Nitish Kumar and then climbed the stairs to shake hand with the Speaker. Sudhanshu not only shook hand with Choudhary but also touched his feet inside the House. He then shook hand with Leader of Opposition Prem Kumar and senior BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav.

Till now, everything was going well, the other members of the House thumped the desk as a welcome gesture to the young MLA.

The Harlakhi seat had fallen vacant after his father and RSLP leader Basant Kumar died on the day of oath taking ceremony.

Sudhanshu sat next to Lalan and started going through the proceeding document kept in front of him.

Suddenly, some NDA legislators started shouting slogans against the treasury bench after the Speaker rejected their proposal of adjournment motion as they wanted debate over law and order issue.

Sudhanshu, a graduate from CM College under Lalit Narayan Mithila University, kept the documents on the desk and started looking at the opposition leaders who were entering the well one by one, carrying posters and banners.

For the first five minutes, Sudhanshu was seated but suddenly he too joined the protesting NDA legislators. He not only joined the protest but also shouted slogans against the government and expressed his protest by clapping in the well along with other NDA legislators.

On February 16, the Harlakhi bypoll result was announced in which Sudhanshu had defeated Grand Alliance candidate Mohammad Shabbir of the Congress by a margin of 18,650 votes. He had got 62,434 votes against his nearest rival, who had received 47,784.

After staging protest for almost 10 minutes, the Speaker adjourned the house till 12 noon after which all legislators started leaving the House.

Later, Sudhanshu was found sitting in the Na Kaksh (room for the Opposition) along with other senior leaders who where praising him.

However, Sudhanshu - married to Ragini Kumari and the couple have five-year-old son Divyanshu - later accepted that he wanted to spend the first day in the Assembly decently but being part of the opposition, he had no choice but to join others.

"I wanted the first day to go smoothly but I had no choice as being the part of the NDA. In fact, I was sitting but my party leader Lalanji asked me to join the protest, as it would have sent a wrong message. I was just following the alliance dharma. It was the first day and I learnt this lesson from my seniors," Sudhanshu told The Telegraph while speaking outside the Speaker's official chamber.