Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty (27 November 1929 – 8 December 2019) was an Indian politician and lawyer from

Odisha 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 ...

belonging to

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 Em ...

. He was elected as a legislator of the

Odisha Legislative Assembly The Odisha Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Odisha state in India. The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Bhubaneswar, the capital of the state. The Legislative Assembly comprises 147 Members of Legislative Ass ...

three times. He also served as Higher Education Minister of the Government of Odisha.

Biography

Mohanty was born on 27 November 1929. He was elected as a legislator of the

from Kendrapara in 1971 as a

Praja Socialist Party The Praja Socialist Party, abbreviated as PSP, was an Indian political party. It was founded when the Socialist Party, led by Jayaprakash Narayan, Rambriksh Benipuri, Acharya Narendra Deva and Basawon Singh (Sinha), merged with the Kisan Mazdoo ...

candidate. Later, he joined

. He was elected as a legislator of the

as an

candidate in 1985 and 1995. Mohanty died on 8 December 2019 at the age of 90.

References

1929 births 2019 deaths Odisha MLAs 1971–1973 Indian National Congress politicians from Odisha Praja Socialist Party politicians People from Kendrapara district State cabinet ministers of Odisha Odisha MLAs 1985–1990 Odisha MLAs 1995–2000 {{Odisha-INC-politician-stub