After taking oath as the MLA of Hinjili constituency, as Patnaik was making his way through the House, Laxman Bag stood up from his seat to greet the five-time Chief Minister. Responding to the Kantabanji MLA, Patnaik said, "Oh, you defeated me," and congratulated him.
'Ohooo, you defeated me...'#WATCH | "Ohooo, you defeated me," responds former CM and Hinjili MLA #NaveenPatnaik when he meets Kantabanji MLA Laxamn Bag after taking oath as a MLA in the State Assembly today
The BJD supremo lost the Kantabanji Assembly seat to BJP's #LaxmanBag… pic.twitter.com/xoAsxtrlTh — Argus News (@ArgusNews_in) June 18, 2024
The entire house including Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and his deputies - KV Singh Deo and Pravati Parida - also stood up from their seats to greet Patnaik in the Assembly.
Pro-tem Speaker Ranendra Pratap Swain first administered the oath to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and other members including Patnaik.
Notably, 48-year-old Bag defeated Patnaik by 16,334 votes in Kantabanji assembly segment. The BJD chief, however, managed to win in the Hinjili assembly seat by a little over 4,600 votes.
The BJP won 78 seats in the recently concluded Assembly polls ending the 24-year BJD rule in Odisha. The BJD won 51 seats, Congress 14, CPI(M) three and Independents three. In the last Assembly, the BJD had 113 MLAs.
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