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List Of Rajya Sabha Members From Odisha
Current members (2020) Keys: Alphabetical List of all Members from Odisha since 1952 References External linksRajya Sabha homepage hosted by the Indian governmentState wise list
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Biju Janata Dal
The Biju Janata Dal (; BJD) is a regional political party in the Indian state of Odisha founded and led by Naveen Patnaik, the current Chief Minister of Odisha and the son of former Chief Minister of Odisha Biju Patnaik, after whom the party is named. It was founded on 26 December 1997. Electoral record The BJD won nine seats in the 1998 general election and Naveen was named Minister for Mines. In the 1999 general elections, the BJD won 10 seats. The party won a majority of seats in the Odisha Legislative Assembly in the 2000 and 2004 elections in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJD won 11 Lok Sabha seats in the 2004 elections. In the aftermath of the 2008 Kandhamal riots, the BJD parted ways with the BJP in both the Lok Sabha and Assembly in the 2009 general election, citing communalism and differences in seat sharing. During the election, BJD won 14 seats and secured a strong 108 legislative seats out of 147 seats in the 2009 Odisha legislative ...
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Kendrapara (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Kendrapara Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) Constituencies in Odisha state in Eastern India. Assembly segments Assembly Constituencies which constitute this Parliamentary Constituency, after delimitation of Parliamentary Constituencies and Legislative Assembly Constituencies of 2008 are: Assembly Constituencies which constituted this Parliamentary Constituency, before delimitation of Parliamentary Constituencies and Legislative Assembly Constituencies of 2008 are: Aul, Pattamundai, Rajnagar, Kendrapara, Patkura, Kisannagar and Mahanga Members of Parliament Elected members from the Kendrapara constituency are * 2019: Anubhav Mohanty, Biju Janata Dal *2014: Baijayant Panda, Biju Janata Dal, later independent (resigned on 14 June 2018) *2009: Baijayant Panda, Biju Janata Dal *2004: Archana Nayak, Biju Janata Dal *1999: Prabhat Kumar Samantaray, Biju Janata Dal *1998: Prabhat Kumar Samantaray, Biju Janata Dal *1996: Srikant Kumar Jena, Janata ...
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Chaitanya Prasad Majhi
Chaitanya or Chaithanya may refer to Philosophy *Chaitanya (consciousness), Hindu philosophical concept People *Chaitanya (name) *Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1533), founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism Media * ''Chaitanya'' (film), a 1991 Telugu film * ''Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu'' (film), a 1954 Hindi biopic film *Chaitanya Mangala, a 16th-century hagiographical work *Chaitanya Charitamrita, a biography of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu *Chaitanya Bhagavata, a hagiography of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Education *Sree Chaitanya Mahavidyalay, a college in India * Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology in India *Chaitanya Engineering College in Visakhapatnam, India *Sree Chaitanya College in India *Sri Chaitanya Techno School, Eluru Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions (Telugu: శ్రీ చైతన్య విద్యాసంస్థలు) are chain of schools, junior colleges, hostels, coaching institutions for IIT-JEE, NEET, EAMCET and UPSC-CS preparation and ...
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Bishwanath Das
Bishwanath Das (8 March 1889 – 2 June 1984) was a politician, lawyer and philanthropist from India. He was the prime minister of Odisha Province of British India 1937–39, the governor of Uttar Pradesh 1962–67 and later the chief minister of Odisha 1971–72. Early life He was born on 8 March 1889 at Belgan village in Ganjam District of the erstwhile Madras Presidency, which is in the state of Odisha. He graduated from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack. Political career Bishwanath Das supported the Indian independence movement from both Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. He was a member of the legislative council of Madras Province from 1921 to 1930. He was instrumental in the creation of a separate state for the Odia-speaking people. After the separation of Odisha on 1 April 1936, he became its prime minister (premier) on 19 July 1937. He became a member of the Constituent Assembly of India in 1946 representing Orissa. He served as the governor of Uttar Pradesh from 16 April 1962 to ...
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Bishnu Charan Das
Bishnu Charan Das (9 October 1954 – 6 July 2020) was an Indian politician from the state of Odisha. He was a leader of the Biju Janata Dal and had previously contested seats in Odisha Legislative Assembly from Jagatsinghpur seat. In 2016, he was the candidate of the party for the biennial Rajya Sabha elections. He was elected unopposed with Prasanna Acharya Prasanna Acharya (born 8 August 1949) is a politician from Odisha, India who sits in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) political party. Career Acharya was a member of the n ... and N. Bhaskar Rao. He resigned from Rajya Sabha on 21 March 2017 after being appointed deputy chairman of Odisha State Planning Board. He died at a hospital in Bhubaneswar on 6 July 2020, weeks after he suffered a stroke. References Rajya Sabha members from Odisha Biju Janata Dal politicians Odisha MLAs 2019–2024 1954 births 2020 deaths Place of birth miss ...
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Biju Patnaik
Bijayananda Patnaik (5 March 1916 – 17 April 1997) was an Indian politician, aviator and businessman. As politician, he served twice as the Chief Minister of the State of Odisha. Early life His parents lived in Bellaguntha, Ganjam district, around 80 km from Bramhapur. He was educated at Ravenshaw College in Odisha but, due to his interest in aviation, dropped out and trained as a pilot. Patnaik flew with private airlines but at the start of the Second World War he joined the Royal Indian Air Force. He eventually became the head of air transport command. While in service, he developed an interest in nationalist politics and used air force transports to deliver what was seen as subversive literature to Indian troops. He was jailed by the British for dropping political leaflets to Indian soldiers fighting under British command in Burma and flying clandestine missions that carried Congress Party leaders from hideouts across India to secret meetings that charted the ...
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Bhubanananda Das
Bhubanananda Das was an Indian Independence activist from Orissa. He was a member of the Central Legislative Assembly, Constituent Assembly of India, Provisional Parliament, the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha. Das was president of the First All Orissa States People's Conference, held at Cuttack in 1931, which was the precursor of the Praja Mandala movement The All India States Peoples' Conference (AISPC) was a conglomeration of political movements in the princely states of the British Raj, which were variously called ''Praja Mandals'' or ''Lok Parishads''.; The first session of the organisation wa .... References Year of birth missing Year of death missing Members of the Constituent Assembly of India Members of the Central Legislative Assembly of India India MPs 1952–1957 Rajya Sabha members from Odisha Lok Sabha members from Odisha Pro tem Speakers of the Lok Sabha Indian independence activists from Odisha People from Cuttack district Indian National Cong ...
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Bhagirathi Majhi
Bhagirathi Majhi (1 February 1954 – 2 November 2020) was an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Orissa in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Majhi died on 2 November 2020, at a hospital in Mayurbhanj district from COVID-19. He was born in Murumdihi, Mayurbhanj / Orissa Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of S ..., and was 66 at the time of his death. References External links Profile on Rajya Sabha website 1954 births 2020 deaths Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Odisha Rajya Sabha members from Odisha People from Mayurbhanj district Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India {{Odisha-BJP-politician-stub ...
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Bhagirathi Mahapatra
Bhagirathi Mahapatra was an Indian politician. He was a member of central legislative assembly from (1945-1947).He was a Member of Parliament, representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ....Sri Bhagirathi Mohapatra was also the founder secretary of Utkal Pradesh congress Committee (1921-1937) along with UtkalaMani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, who was also the Founder President. He was also one of the main trustee of Swaraj Ashram, Odisha (1940). References Rajya Sabha members from Odisha Indian National Congress politicians 1892 births Year of death missing Indian National Congress politicians from Odisha {{Odisha-INC-politician-stub ...
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Janata Dal
Janata Dal (“People’s Party”) was an Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal, Indian National Congress (Jagjivan), and the Jan Morcha united on 11 October 1988 on the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan under the leadership of V. P. Singh. History V. P. Singh united the entire disparate spectrum of parties ranging from regional parties such as the Telugu Desam Party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, and the Asom Gana Parishad, together and formed the National Front with N. T. Rama Rao as Indian Election History President and V. P. Singh as convenor with outside support from the ( Right-wing Political party) Bharatiya Janata Party and ( Left-wing Political party) Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left front. They defeated Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) in the 1989 parliamentary elections. His government fell after Lalu Prasad Yadav, got Advani arrested in Samastipur and ...
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Balbir Punj
Balbir Punj is an eminent journalist and columnist from India. For more than two and a half decades, Punj has been writing on current topics in important Hindi-English newspapers, magazines. He specializes in dealing with social, economic, and political issues. He has also invited to speak on various subjects by many public fora and is known for his clarity and articulation. Punj started his career in journalism for the publication Motherland in 1971. He also worked for Financial Express from 1974 to 1996. Then he worked for The Observer of Business and Politics (A business daily published from Delhi and Mumbai) as an Executive Editor for four years- from May 1996 to March 2000. He was also IIMC chairman for almost two years until March 2000. IIMC is the best-known organization in media training in entire Southeast Asia. Punj also had an important participation in the Delhi Journalists Association, where he served as the President for two consecutive terms between 1989 and 199 ...
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Baishnab Charan Parida
Baishnab Charan Parida (15 February 1941 – 22 November 2018), was a BJD politician, writer and social activist. He was a Member of Rajya Sabha (the upper house of India's Parliament) and represented Odisha. Socialism and secularism are his main mantras.
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He was elected to Rajya Sabha in July 2010 and his term ended on 1 July 2016. He fought to bring the Odisha Official Language Act, 1954.


Early life

He was born on 15 February 1941 in Gopal (caste), Gopal () family of Srirampur, P.S. Mangalpur of
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