Mobilenews24x7 Bureau
Bhubaneswar: BJP candidate Suryabanshi Suraj took oath as the MLA of Dhamnagar assembly constituency on Wednesday.
Suraj is the son of former Dhamnagar MLA Bishnu Sethi. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had fielded Suraj as its candidate after the demise of Sethi.
Suraj won the Dhamnagar MLA seat by a margin of 9,881 votes. He garnered 80,351 votes while his nearest rival BJD candidate Abanti Das got 70,470 votes.
The voting for the bypoll was conducted on November 3 at 252 polling booths and 68.98 per cent polling recorded. The counting was held on November 6.
