Lucknow, Dec 26 (PTI) Newly-elected BJP MLA from Rampur Akash Saxena on Monday took oath as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

A statement issued here said Speaker Satish Mahana administered the oath to Saxena in his office.

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The BJP had won the Rampur Sadar assembly seat for the first time after Saxena defeated his nearest Samajwadi Party rival Asim Raja by a margin of 33,702 votes in a bypoll.

The bypoll to the Muslim-dominated Rampur Sadar seat, considered an Azam Khan stronghold, was necessitated after the senior SP leader was sentenced to three years in jail in a hate speech case, and subsequently disqualified as MLA and barred from contesting polls for six years.

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