Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee

Odisha Pradesh Congress
President	Bhakta Charan Das
Chairman	Rama Chandra Kadam
Headquarters	Congress Bhawan, Unit-2, Bhubaneswar -751009, Odisha
Student wing	National Students' Union of India - Odisha
Youth wing	Odisha Youth Congress
Women's wing	Odisha Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
Ideology	Populism Social liberalism Democratic socialism Social democracy Secularism
ECI Status	A State Unit of Indian National Congress
Alliance	Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Seats in  Lok Sabha	1 / 21
Seats in  Rajya Sabha	0 / 10
Seats in  Odisha Legislative Assembly	14 / 147
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The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee is the unit of the Indian National Congress for the state of Odisha. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections in Odisha.

The head office of the organization is the Congress Bhawan, situated at Master Canteen circle in Bhubaneswar. Sarat Pattanayak was appointed president of the committee in 2022 and currently serves as the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee(OPCC) President. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

History

Pre-Independence 1920-1947

Until 1920, there was no separate provincial committee for Odisha. Congress organisation in Odisha was under Bihar And Orissa Provincial Congress committee . ^[5] The Nagpur Session of the Indian National Congress, held in December 1920, which finally passed the Non Co-operation resolution was attended by a number of delegates from Orissa such as Pandit Gopabandhu Das, Bhagirathi Mahapatra, Jagabandhu Singh, Jadumani Mangaraj, Mukunda Prasad Das, Niranjan Patnaik and Harekrushna Mahatab. This session of the Congress decided to form the Provincial Congress Committees on linguistic basis. As a result, a separate Provincial Congress Committee was formed for Orissa even though Orissa had not yet became a separate province. Soon after the Nagpur Congress session, the Utkal Union Conference was held at Chakradharpur under the Presidency of Jagabandhu Singh. In this Conference Gopabandhu Das suggested a modification in the outlook of the Utkal Union Conference. ^[6]

This led to the formation Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee uniting representation of all Odia speaking tracts, consisting of British administered Madras Presidency, Central Province, Bengal Presidency and the pre 1936 Bihar and Orissa Province. ^[7] With its first President being Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das the formation of Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) gave impetus to formation of Odisha state. This also gave boost to Congress activities in the Odia speaking areas. ^{[8] [9]}

The Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee deputed the following twelve members to represent Orissa at the All India Congress Committee. They were Gopabandhu Das, Jagabandhu Singh, Nilakantha Das, Gopabandhu Choudhury, Niranjan Pattanaik, Harekrushna Mahatab, Bhagirathi Mahapatra, Dharanidhar Mishra Banaprastha, Nilakantha Das Choudhury, Atal Bihari Acharya, Brajamohan Panda and Jamini Kanta Biswas.

UPCC gave boost to formation of Orissa state. In 1931 UPCC adopted a resolution moved by Harekrushna Mahatab, that urged the Government of India to establish a separate Orissa state. It also established a committee to take the matter further and cooperate with the British administration without compromising Congress principles. ^[10]

List of Presidents

See also: List of state presidents of the Indian National Congress and List of presidents of the Indian National Congress

S.no	President	Portrait	Term		Duration
1.	Gopabandhu Das		1920	1928
2.	Harekrushna Mahatab		1930	1931
3.	Nilakantha Das		1934	1939
4.	Banamali Patnaik		1953	1954
5.	Binayak Acharya		1967	1972
6.	Nilamani Routray		1972	1977
7.	Nityananda Misra		1977	1980
8.	Kunj Bihari Nayak		1980	1984
9.	Hemananda Biswal		1984	1989
10.	Sarat Pattanayak		1989	1994
(9).	Hemananda Biswal		1994	1998
11.	Niranjan Patnaik		1998	2000
12.	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik		2000	2001
13.	Giridhar Gamang		2001	2004
(12).	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik		2004	2004
14.	Jayadev Jena		26 June 2004	28 January 2009	4 years, 216 days
15.	Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo		28 January 2009	7 June 2011	2 years, 130 days
(11).	Niranjan Patnaik		7 June 2011	13 May 2013	1 year, 340 days
(14).	Jayadev Jena		13 May 2013	15 December 2014	1 year, 216 days
16.	Prasad Kumar Harichandan		15 December 2014	19 April 2018	3 years, 125 days
(11).	Niranjan Patnaik		19 April 2018	23 May 2022	4 years, 34 days
(10).	Sarat Pattanayak		23 May 2022	11 February 2025	2 years, 264 days
17.	Bhakta Charan Das		11 February 2025	Incumbent	147 days

Electoral performance

Odisha Legislative Assembly election

Year	Party leader	Seats won	Change in seats	Outcome
1952	Nabakrushna Choudhury	67 / 140	New	Government
1957	Harekrushna Mahatab	56 / 140	11	Government
1961	Biju Patnaik	82 / 140	26	Government
1967	Sadashiva Tripathy	31 / 140	6	Opposition
1971	Nandini Satpathy	51 / 140	20	Opposition
1974		69 / 140	18	Government
1977	Binayak Acharya	26 / 140	25	Opposition
1980	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	118 / 147	87	Government
1985		117 / 147	1	Government
1990	Hemananda Biswal	10 / 147	107	Opposition
1995	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	80 / 147	70	Government
2000	Hemananda Biswal	26 / 147	54	Opposition
2004	Narasingha Mishra	38 / 147	12	Opposition
2009	Bhupinder Singh	27 / 147	11	Opposition
2014	Jayadev Jena	16 / 147	11	Opposition
2019	Niranjan Patnaik	9 / 147	7	Opposition
2024	Sarat Pattanayak	14 / 147	5	Opposition

Lok Sabha Election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
1996	17 / 21		Opposition
1998	5 / 21	12
1999	2 / 21	3
2004	2 / 21		Government
2009	6 / 21	4
2014	0 / 21	6	Opposition
2019	1 / 21	1
2024	1 / 21

Political Affairs Committee

No	Name
1.	Ajay Kumar Lallu
2.	Bhakta Charan Das
3.	Rama Chandra Kadam
4.	Saptagiri Ulaka
5.	Niranjan Patnaik
6	Jayadev Jena
7.	Sarat Pattanayak
8.	Prasad Harichandan
9.	Srikant Jena
10.	Nagendra Pradhan
11.	Jaganath Patnaik
12.	Amar Chandra Pradhan
13.	Sushila Tiriya
14.	A. P. Sethi
15.	Ramachandra Khuntia
16.	Sarat Raut
17.	Assaf Ali Khan
18.	Tara Prasad Bahinipati
19.	Ramesh Jena
20.	C. S. Raazen Ekka
21.	Debashish Patnaik
22.	Santosh Singh Saluja
23.	Md. Moquim
24.	Biswaranjan Mohanty
25.	Sasmita Behera

See also

• Indian National Congress
• Congress Working Committee
• All India Congress Committee
• Pradesh Congress Committee

References

1. "Niranjan Patnaik appointed Odisha Congress president". The Hindu. 20 April 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
2. Mohapatra, Debabrata (19 April 2018). "Congress removes Prasad, appoints Niranjan Patnaik as new Odisha president". The Times of India. Bhubaneswar. TNN. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
3. Patnaik, Sampad (20 April 2018). "Niranjan Patnaik appointed Odisha Congress President for second time". Bhubaneswar: The Indian Express. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
4. Mohanty, Debabrata (19 April 2018). "Congress revamps Odisha unit, appoints Niranjan Patnaik as new chief". Bhubaneswar: Hindustan Times. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
5. Mishra, C. (1986). Freedom Movement in Sambalpur, 1827-1947. B.R. Publishing Corporation. p. 192. ISBN   978-81-7018-357-0 . Retrieved 25 February 2020.
6. Review, Odisha. Participation of Odia leaders in the Indian National Congress. Government of Odisha. pp. 12–15.
7. Devi, B. (1992). Some Aspects of British Administration in Orissa, 1912-1936. Academic Foundation. pp. 193–194. ISBN   978-81-7188-072-0 . Retrieved 25 February 2020.
8. Acharya, P. (2008). National Movement and Politics in Orissa, 1920-1929. SAGE Series in Modern Indian History. SAGE Publications. p. 49. ISBN   978-81-321-0001-0 . Retrieved 25 February 2020.
9. Experts, Arihant (4 June 2019). Know Your State Odisha. Arihant Publications India limited. ISBN   978-93-131-9327-2.
10. Devi, B. (1992). Some Aspects of British Administration in Orissa, 1912-1936. Academic Foundation. p. 202. ISBN   978-81-7188-072-0 . Retrieved 26 February 2020.

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