Jitu Patnaik is a politician [1] from Odisha, India. He represented the Champua (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency) between the year 2009 to 2014. [2] In the year 2009 he won the Champua (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency) seat from his nearest rival Sanatan Mahakud by a paltry margin of 145 votes, the thinnest in the State. [3] [4]
Naveen Patnaik is an Indian politician serving as the current and 14th Chief Minister of Odisha. He is also the president of the Biju Janata Dal, a writer and has authored three books. He is the longest-serving chief minister of Odisha and as of 2022, one of the longest-serving chief ministers of any Indian state, holding the post for over two decades, and only the third Indian chief Minister after Pawan Chamling and Jyoti Basu to win five consecutive terms as Chief Minister of an Indian state.
The politics of Odisha are part of India's federal parliamentary representative democracy, where the union government exercises sovereign rights. Certain powers are reserved to the states, including Odisha. The state has a multi-party system, in which the two main parties are the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the regional, socialist Biju Janata Dal (BJD). The Indian National Congress (INC) has also significant presence.
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Hinjili is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Ganjam district, Odisha
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Champua is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kendujhar district. Area of this constituency include Joda, Barbil, Joda block and 17 GPs of Champua block.
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Surada is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Ganjam district, Odisha.
Polasara is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Ganjam district, Odisha.
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Pipili is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Puri district, Odisha.
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Rajanagar is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kendrapara district, Odisha.
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Khurda is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Khordha district, Odisha, India.
Badri Narayan Patra is a politician from Odisha, India. He represents the Ghasipura since the year 2009.
The 2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election took place in April 2019, along with the 2019 Indian general election. The term of the assembly elected in 2014 had expired on 24 May 2019.