By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: State Assembly Speaker BK Arukha administered BJP’s Suryabanshi Suraj, the oath of office in the Odisha Legislative Assembly as MLA Dhamnagar, on Wednesday. BJP’s Suryabanshi Suraj had defeated BJD’s Abanti Das by a margin of 9,881 votes in Dhamnagar bypoll.
MLA Suryabanshi took blessings of Speaker Arukha by touching his feet.Leader of Opposition Jayanarayan Mishra, senior leader Mohan Majhi , Lalitendu Mohapatra and others were among those present.
Before taking oath as MLA, Suraj, son of late BJP MLA Bishnu Sethi, went to the BJP State Headquarters in the city, where he was felicitated by party’s State President Samir Mohanty, senior leaders Manmohan Samal, Golak Mohapatra, Lekhashree Samantsinghar and other leaders.
