New portfolios for 17th Assembly

 

Smt Surama Padhy elected as new speaker unanimously

 

Smt Surama Padhy

Speaker of Odisha Legislative Assembly

DOB : 29 December 1960 (age 63)

Smt Padhy won the 2024 Odisha Legislative Assembly election from Ranpur Assembly Constituency representing Bharatiya Janata Party. She defeated Satyanarayan Pradhan of Biju Janata Dal by a margin of 15,544 votes. 

Earlier, she lost thrice from Ranpur, the last time in the 2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election to Pradhan by a narrow margin of 4,251 votes. She is also a former minister of state for cooperation in the 2004 Naveen Patnaik BJD government which had an alliance with BJP. 

Office Rooms Allotted to Council of Ministers in Lokseva Bhawan