| Leader of the Opposition of the Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
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| Style | The Hon’ble |
| Member of | Odisha Legislative Assembly |
| Nominator | Members of the Official Opposition of the Legislative Assembly |
| Appointer | Speaker of the Assembly |
| Term length | Till the Assembly Continues |
| Inaugural holder | Shraddhakar Supakar |
The Leader of the Opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly is the politician who leads the official opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
Official Opposition [1] is a term used to designate the political party which has secured the second largest number of seats in the assembly. In order to get formal recognition, the party must have at least 10% of total membership of the Legislative Assembly. A single party has to meet the 10% seat criterion, not an alliance. Many of the Indian state legislatures also follows this 10% rule while the rest of them prefer single largest opposition party according to the rules of their respective houses.
| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Tenure [2] | Assembly | Chief Minister | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Shraddhakar Supakar | Rairakhol | 16 February 1952 | 4 March 1957 | 5 years, 16 days | 1st | Nabakrushna Choudhuri | Ganatantra Parishad | |
| 2 |  | Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo | Titlagarh | 1 April 1957 | 22 May 1959 | 2 years, 51 days | 2nd | Nabakrushna Choudhuri | ||
| (2) | | Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo | Kantabanji | 21 June 1961 | 1 March 1967 | 5 years, 253 days | 3rd | Biju Patnaik | Ganatantra Parishad | |
| 3 |  | Sadashiva Tripathy | Nowrangpur | 18 March 1967 | 23 January 1971 | 3 years, 311 days | 4th | Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo | Indian National Congress | |
| 4 |  | Binayak Acharya | Berhampur | 4 May 1971 | 14 June 1972 | 1 year, 41 days | 5th | Bishwanath Das | ||
| (2) | | Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo | Bolangir | 14 June 1972 | 9 February 1973 | 240 days | Nandini Satpathy | Swatantra Party | ||
| 5 |  | Biju Patnaik | Rajanagar | 9 February 1973 | 3 March 1973 | 22 days | Utkal Congress | |||
| (5) | | Biju Patnaik | Rajanagar | 19 March 1974 | 24 March 1977 | 3 years, 5 days | 6th | Nandini Satpathy | Utkal Congress | |
| 6 | Ram Prasad Mishra | Kantabanji | 31 March 1977 | 30 April 1977 | 30 days | Binayak Acharya | Swatantra Party | |||
| 7 |  | Chintamani Panigrahi | Begunia | 29 June 1977 | 20 February 1978 | 236 days | 7th | Nilamani Routray | Indian National Congress | |
| 8 |  | Brundaban Nayak | Hinjili | 20 February 1978 | 3 September 1979 | 1 year, 195 days | ||||
| 9 | Prahlad Mallik | Patkura | 3 September 1979 | 13 February 1980 | 163 days | Janata Party | ||||
| 10 |  | Ananta Narayan Singh Deo | Surada | 13 February 1980 | 17 February 1980 | 4 days | ||||
| 11 | Sarat Deb | Aul | 2 April 1984 | 10 March 1985 | 342 days | 8th | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | Janata Party (Secular) | ||
| (5) | | Biju Patnaik | Bhubaneswar Central | 22 March 1985 | 3 March 1990 | 4 years, 346 days | 9th | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | Janata Party | |
| (5) | | Biju Patnaik | Bhubaneswar Central | 23 March 1995 | 20 May 1996 | 1 year, 58 days | 11th | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | Janata Dal | |
| 12 |  | Ashok Kumar Das | Korei | 22 May 1996 | 17 December 1997 | 1 year, 209 days | Janata Dal | |||
| 13 | Ram Krushna Patnaik | Kodala | 22 February 1998 | 16 November 1998 | 267 days | Janata Dal | ||||
| 14 | Prafulla Samal | Bhadrak | 16 November 1998 | 1 December 1998 | 15 days | Janata Dal | ||||
| 15 | Satchidanand Dalal | Boudh | 11 December 1998 | 29 February 2000 | 1 year, 80 days | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | Janata Dal | |||
| 16 | Ramakanta Mishra | Ranpur | 21 March 2000 | 6 February 2004 | 3 years, 322 days | 12th | Naveen Patnaik | Indian National Congress | ||
| 17 |  | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | Begunia | 4 June 2004 | 24 January 2009 | 4 years, 234 days | 13th | |||
| 18 | Ramachandra Ulaka | Rayagada | 24 January 2009 | 19 May 2009 | 115 days | |||||
| 19 |  | Bhupinder Singh | Narla | 27 May 2009 | 10 March 2014 | 4 years, 287 days | 14th | |||
| 20 |  | Narasingha Mishra | Bolangir | 11 June 2014 | 29 May 2019 | 4 years, 352 days | 15th | |||
| 21 |  | Pradipta Kumar Naik | Bhawanipatna | 25 June 2019 | 30 July 2022 | 3 years, 35 days | 16th | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 22 |  | Jayanarayan Mishra | Sambalpur | 30 July 2022 | 4 June 2024 | 1 year, 310 days | ||||
| 23 |  | Naveen Patnaik | Hinjili | 19 June 2024 | Incumbent | 19 days | 17th | Mohan Charan Majhi | Biju Janata Dal | |
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