TNI Bureau: Two-time BJP MLA from Ranpur, Surama Padhy was unanimously elected as the Speaker of the 17th Assembly on Thursday.
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She is the second woman after Pramila Mallick to hold the Speaker post in the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
BJP’s Surama Padhy defeated Satyanarayan Pradhan of Biju Janata Dal by a margin of 15,544 votes from Ranpur Assembly seat in the recently concluded elections.
Padhy’s name was proposed for the Speaker’s post by Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi.
She was a Minister of State for Cooperation with Independent charge in the BJD-BJP alliance Government in Odisha in 2004.
