Surama Padhy all set to be speaker of Odisha Assembly

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and Ranpur MLA Surama Padhy on Wednesday filed her nomination paper for the election to the post of Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly.

Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi and deputy chief ministers KV Singh Deo and Pravati Parida accompanied Padhy while she submitted her nomination paper with Dasarathi Satpathy, the secretary of the Odisha Legislative Assembly.

The BJP legislature party had earlier unanimously decided on Padhy's name for the post of the Speaker. Padhy will replace the existing Speaker from the BJD Pramila Mallick.


Padhy was first elected to the Odisha Assembly from Ranpur seat in Nayagarh district on a BJP ticket in 2004. She has also served as a minister of state in the BJD-BJP coalition government in Odisha from 2004 to 2009.

This time, the BJP has formed government of its own in Odisha after the saffron party won 78 seats in the 147 member in Odisha Assembly.

The BJD has 51 MLAs, Congress 14, CPI(M) one and independents 3.