Bishnu Charan Das (9 October 1954 – 6 July 2020) was an Indian politician from the state of

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 ...

. He was a leader of the

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 ...

and had previously contested seats in

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 As ...

from Jagatsinghpur seat. In 2016, he was the candidate of the party for the biennial

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

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.

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Rajya Sabha members from Odisha Biju Janata Dal politicians Odisha MLAs 2019–2024 1954 births 2020 deaths Place of birth missing {{Odisha-BJD-politician-stub