Bhubaneswar: BJD’s Barsha Singh Bariha on Monday took oath as Padampur MLA. She was administered the oath by Speaker Bikram Keshari Arukha at the Odisha Assembly here.
Barsha had won the Padampur by-election by a margin of 42,679 votes defeating the nearest BJP rival Pradeep Purohit.
She polled 1,20,807 (58 per cent) votes while Purohit managed 78,128 (37.51 per cent) votes. Congress’ Satya Bhusan Sahu finished a distant third with only 3,594 (1.73 per cent) votes.
