Draft:Sixteenth Odisha Vidhan Sabha

Odisha Legislative Assembly
Odisha Legislative Assembly
16th Odisha Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 years
Leadership
Speaker	Pramila Mallik, BJD ; since 21 September 2023
Deputy Speaker	Saluga Pradhan, BJD ; since 21 November 2023
Leader of the House ; (Chief Minister)	Naveen Patnaik, BJD ; since 5 March 2000
Leader of Opposition	Jayanarayan Mishra, BJP ; since 30 July 2022
Structure
Seats	147
Political groups	Government (113) BJD (113) Official Opposition (23) BJP (23) Other opposition (10) INC (9); CPI(M) (1); Others IND (1) Vacant (1)
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	2019
Next election	2024
Meeting place
	Vidhan Sabha, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India
Website
	odishaassembly.nic.in

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The sixteenth Odisha Vidhan Sabha was convened on after 2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election. Biju Janata Dal led by Naveen Patnaik formed government for a record 5th time.

Members of Legislative Assembly[edit]

District	No.	Constituency	Name		Remarks
Bargarh	1	Padampur	Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha	Biju Janata Dal	Died in October 2022^[1]
	1	Padampur	Barsha Singh Bariha		Won in 2022 bypoll election after death of Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha^[2]
	2	Bijepur	Rita Sahu		Minister
	3	Bargarh	Debesh Acharya
	4	Attabira (SC)	Snehangini Chhuria
	5	Bhatli	Susanta Singh
Jharsuguda	6	Brajarajnagar	Kishore Kumar Mohanty		Died in December 2021
	6	Brajarajnagar	Alka Mohanty		Won in 2022 bypoll necessitated after the death of Kishore Kumar Mohanty
	7	Jharsuguda	Naba Das		Assassinated in January 2023
	7	Jharsuguda	Dipali Das		Won in 2023 bypoll necessitated by the death of Naba Das^[3]
Sundargarh	8	Talsara (ST)	Bhabani Shankar Bhoi	Bharatiya Janata Party
	9	Sundargarh (ST)	Kusum Tete
	10	Biramitrapur (ST)	Shankar Oram
	11	Raghunathpali (SC)	Subrat Tarai	Biju Janata Dal
	12	Rourkela	Sarada Prasad Nayak	Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	13	Rajgangpur (ST)	C. S. Razeen Ekka	Indian National Congress
	14	Bonai (ST)	Laxman Munda	Communist Party of India
Sambalpur	15	Kuchinda (ST)	Kishore Chandra Naik	Biju Janata Dal
	16	Rengali (SC)	Nauri Nayak	Bharatiya Janata Party
	17	Sambalpur	Jayanarayan Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party	Leader of Opposition
	18	Rairakhol	Rohit Pujari	Biju Janata Dal
Deogarh	19	Deogarh	Subash Chandra Panigrahi	Bharatiya Janata Party
Keonjhar	20	Telkoi (ST)	Premmananda Nayak	Biju Janata Dal
	21	Ghasipura	Badri Narayan Patra
	22	Anandpur (SC)	Bhagirathi Sethi
	23	Patna (ST)	Jagganath Naik
	24	Keonjhar (ST)	Mohan Charan Majhi	Bharatiya Janata Party
	25	Champua	Minakshi Mahanta	Biju Janata Dal
Mayurbhanj	26	Jashipur (ST)	Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia	Bharatiya Janata Party
	27	Saraskana (ST)	Budhan Murmu
	28	Rairangpur (ST)	Naba Charan majhi
	29	Bangriposi (ST)	Sudam Marndi	Biju Janata Dal	Minister
	30	Karanjia (ST)	Basanti Hembram	Biju Janata Dal
	31	Udala (ST)	Bhaskar Madhei	Bharatiya Janata Party
	32	Badasahi (SC)	Santan Bijuli
	33	Baripada (ST)	Prakash Soren
	34	Morada	Rajkishore Das	Biju Janata Dal
Balasore	35	Jaleswar	Ashwini Kumar Patra		Minister
	36	Bhograi	Ananta
	37	Basta	Nityananda Sahoo
	38	Balasore Assembly constituency	Madanmohan Dutta	Bharatiya Janata Party	Died in 2020
	38	Balasore Assembly constituency	Swarup Kumar Das	Biju Janata Dal	Won in 2020 bypoll necessitated after the death of Madanmohan Dutta
	39	Remuna (SC)	Sudhanshu Shekar Parida	Independent	Suspended By Biju Janata Dal
	40	Nilagiri	Sukanta Nayak	Bharatiya Janata Party
	41	Soro (SC)	Parshuram Dhada	Biju Janata Dal
	42	Simulia	Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi
Bhadrak	43	Bhandaripokhari	Prafulla Samal
	44	Bhadrak	Sanjib Mallick
	45	Basudevpur	Bishnubrata Routray
	46	Dhamnagar (SC)	Bishnu Sethi	Bharatiya Janata Party	Died in 2022
	46	Dhamnagar (SC)	Suryabanshi Suraj	Bharatiya Janata Party	Won in 2022 bypoll necessitated after death of Bishnu Sethi
	47	Chandabali	Byomkesh Ray	Biju Janata Dal
Jajpur	48	Binjharpur (SC)	Pramila Mallik		Speaker
	49	Bari	Sunanda Das
	50	Barchana	Amar Prasad Satpathy
	51	Dharmasala	Pranab Kumar Balabantaray
	52	Jajpur	Pranab
	53	Korei	Ashok Kumar Bal
	54	Sukinda	Pritiranjan Gharai		Minister
Dhenkanal	55	Dhenkanal	Sudhir Kumar Samal
	56	Hindol (SC)	Seemarani Nayak
	57	Kamakhyanagar	Praffula Kumar Mallick		Minister
	58	Parjanga	Nrusingha Charan Sahu
Angul	59	Pallahara	Mukesh Kumar Pal
	60	Talcher	Brajakishore Pradhan
	61	Angul	Rajanikant Singh
	62	Chhendipada (SC)	Susanta Kumar Behera
	63	Athmallik	Ramesh Chandra Sai
Subarnapur	64	Birmaharajpur (SC)	Padmanabha Behera
Subarnapur	65	Sonepur	Niranjan Pujari		Minister
Bolangir	66	Loisingha (SC)	Mukesh Mahaling	Bharatiya Janata Party
	67	Patnagarh	Saroj Meher	Biju Janata Dal
	68	Bolangir	Narasingha Mishra	Indian National Congress
	69	Titlagarh	Tukuni Sahu	Biju Janata Dal
	70	Kantabanji	Santosh Singh Saluja	Indian National Congress
Nuapada	71	Nuapada	Rajendra Dholakia	Biju Janata Dal	Minister
Nuapada	72	Khariar	Adhiraj Mohan Panigrahi	Indian National Congress
Nabarangpur	73	Umarkote (ST)	Nityananda Gond	Bharatiya Janata Party
	74	Jharigam (ST)	Prakash Chandra Majhi	Biju Janata Dal
	75	Nabarangpur (ST)	Sadasiva Pradhani
	76	Dabugam (ST)	Manohar Randhari
Kalahandi	77	Lanjigarh (ST)	Pradip Kumar Dishari
	78	Junagarh	Dibya Shankar Mishra		Minister
	79	Dharmagarh	Mousadhi Bag
	80	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Pradipta Kumar Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	81	Narla	Bhupinder Singh	Biju Janata Dal
Kandhamal	82	Baliguda (ST)	Chakramani Kanhar
	83	G. Udayagiri (ST)	Saluga Pradhan		Deputy Speaker
	84	Phulbani (ST)	Angada Kanhar
Boudh	85	Kantamal	Mahidhar Rana
Boudh	86	Boudh	Pradip Kumar Amat		Minister
Cuttack	87	Baramba	Debiprasad Mishra
	88	Banki	Devi Ranjan Tripathy
	89	Athgarh	Ranendra Pratap Swain		Minister
	90	Barabati-Cuttack	Mohammed Moquim	Independent	Suspended By Indian National Congress
	91	Choudwar-Cuttack	Souvic Biswal	Biju Janata Dal
	92	Niali (SC)	Dr. Pramod Kumar Mallick
	93	Cuttack Sadar (SC)	Chandra Sarathi Behera
	94	Salipur	Prasanta Behera
	95	Mahanga	Pratap Jena
Kendrapara	96	Patkura	Sabitri Agarwalla
	97	Kendrapara (SC)	Shashi Bhusan Behera
	98	Aul	Pratap Keshari Deb		Minister
	99	Rajanagar	Dhruba Charan Sahoo
	100	Mahakalapada	Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak		Minister
Jagatsinghpur	101	Paradeep	Sambit Routray
	102	Tirtol (SC)	Bishnu Charan Das		Died in 2020
	102	Tirtol (SC)	Bijay Shankar Das		Won in 2020 bypoll necessitated after the death of Bishnu Charan Das
	103	Balikuda-Erasama	Raghunadan Das
	104	Jagatsinghpur	Prasanta Kumar Muduli
Puri	105	Kakatpur (SC)	Tusarakanti Behera		Minister
	106	Nimapara	Samir Ranjan Dash
	107	Puri	Jayanta Kumar Sarangi	Bharatiya Janata Party
	108	Brahmagiri	Lalitendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra	Bharatiya Janata Party
	109	Satyabadi	Umakanta Samantaray	Biju Janata Dal
	110	Pipili	Pradeep Maharathy	Biju Janata Dal	Died in 2021
	110	Pipili	Rudra Pratap Maharathy		Won in 2021 bypoll necessitated after the death of Pradeep Maharathy
Khordha	111	Jayadev (SC)	Arabinda Dhali
	112	Bhubaneswar Central	Ananta Narayan Jena
	113	Bhubaneswar North	Susant Kumar Rout
	114	Ekamra Bhubaneswar	Ashok Chandra Panda		Minister
	115	Jatani	Suresh Kumar Routray	Indian National Congress
	116	Begunia	Rajendra Kumar Sahoo	Biju Janata Dal
	117	Khurda	Jyotirindra Nath Mitra
	118	Chilika	Prasanta Kumar Jagadev
Nayagarh	119	Ranpur	Satyanarayan Pradhan
	120	Khandapada	Soumya Ranjan Patnaik	Independent	Suspended By Biju Janata Dal
	121	Daspalla (SC)	Ramesh Chandra Behera	Biju Janata Dal
	122	Nayagarh	Aruna Kumar Sahoo
Ganjam	123	Bhanjanagar	Bikram Keshari Arukha		Minister
	124	Polasara	Srikanta Sahu		Minister
	125	Kabisuryanagar	Latika Pradhan
	126	Khalikote (SC)	Suryamani Baidya
	127	Chhatrapur (SC)	Subash Chandra Behera
	128	Aska	Manjula Swain
	129	Surada	Purna Chandra Swain
	130	Sanakhemundi	Ramesh Chandra Jena	Indian National Congress
	131	Hinjili	Naveen Patnaik	Biju Janata Dal	Chief Minister
	132	Gopalpur	Dr. Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi	Independent	Suspended By Biju Janata Dal
	133	Berhampur	Bikram Kumar Panda	Biju Janata Dal
	134	Digapahandi	Surjya Narayan Patro	Biju Janata Dal	Died on 2 September 2023
	134	Digapahandi	Vacant
	135	Chikiti	Usha Devi	Biju Janata Dal
Gajapati	136	Mohana (ST)	Dasarathi Gomango	Indian National Congress
Gajapati	137	Paralakhemundi	Rupesh Kumar Panigrahi	Biju Janta Dal
Rayagada	138	Gunupur (ST)	Raghunath Gomango
	139	Bissam Cuttack (ST)	Jagannath Saraka		Minister
	140	Rayagada (ST)	Makaranda Muduli	Independent
Koraput	141	Lakshmipur (ST)	Prabhu Jani	Biju Janata Dal
	142	Kotpad (ST)	Padmini Dian	Biju Janata Dal
	143	Jeypore	Tara Prasad Bahinipati	Indian National Congress
	144	Koraput (SC)	Raghu Ram Padal	Biju Janata Dal
	145	Pottangi (ST)	Rama Chandra Kadam	Indian National Congress
Malkangiri	146	Malkangiri (ST)	Aditya Madhi	Bharatiya Janata Party
Malkangiri	147	Chitrakonda (ST)	Purna Chandra Baka	Biju Janata Dal

References[edit]

^ "BJD MLA Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha passes away in Bhubaneswar hospital". Hindustan Times. 2022-10-03. Archived from the original on 25 August 2023. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
^ "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
^ "Odisha Health Minister Naba Kisore Das shot dead by police officer". The Hindu. 2023-01-29. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-16.

[1] "BJD MLA Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha passes away in Bhubaneswar hospital". Hindustan Times. 2022-10-03. Archived from the original on 25 August 2023. Retrieved 2022-11-05.

[2] "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-08.

[3] "Odisha Health Minister Naba Kisore Das shot dead by police officer". The Hindu. 2023-01-29. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-16.

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