[1] In a close-fought election in 2019, Padmini Dian emerged as the winner in the Kotpad constituency by defeating the incumbent MLA Chandra Sekhar Majhi of INC by 2,500 votes.

[2] It was a moment of pride for the people of Kotpad when Padmini Dian was elected to office.

She was seen as the hope[3] of hundreds of local handloom weavers whose art form is about to vanish, as documented by Biswanath Rath in his film Kotpad Weaving: The Story of a Race Against Time.

She launched a book on local hand weaving called Divine Fabric[4] in February 2020.

She has arranged numerous plantation workshops and blood donation camps and is an active member of many self-help groups.