Chandigarh, Jun 28 (PTI) Sanjeev Arora, the newly elected MLA from the Ludhiana West assembly seat, was administered oath by the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker here on Saturday. Arora (61) had defeated Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu by a margin of 10,637 votes in the Ludhiana West assembly bypoll. Also Read | Union Government To Impose Tax on Water Usage for Agricultural Purposes? PIB Fact Check Reveals Truth As Fake News Goes Viral. While Arora secured 35,179 votes, Ashu got 24,542 votes. BJP’s Jiwan Gupta polled 20,323 votes and Shiromani Akali Dal nominee Parupkar Singh Ghuman received 8,203 votes. The bypoll — held on June 19 — was necessitated by the death of AAP MLA Gurpreet Bassi Gogi in January. The result was declared on June 23. Also Read | Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET640 Health Scare: 7 Passengers Onboard Addis Ababa-Mumbai Flight Fall Sick After Boeing 787 Dreamliner Aircraft Suffers Depressurisation. Arora was administered oath by Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan on Saturday. On this occasion, AAP’s Punjab in-charge Manish Sisodia, AAP state unit president Aman Arora, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema, MLA Budh Ram were present. (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)