Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee

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Odisha Pradesh Congress(INC)
President Bhakta Charan Das
Chairman Rama Chandra Kadam
HeadquartersCongress 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
ECI StatusA State Unit of Indian National Congress
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
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Seats in  Lok Sabha
1 / 21
Seats in  Odisha Legislative Assembly
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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.

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The head office of the organisation is the Congress Bhawan, situated at Master Canteen circle in Bhubaneswar.

Bhakta Charan Das was appointed president of the committee in 2025 following the 2024 general elections and currently serves as the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee(OPCC) President. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

The house and floor leader of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee MLA cohort is Rama Chandra Kadam (Congress Legislative Party Leader) along with deputy Congress Legislative party leader Ashok Kumar Das elected from Pottangi and Basudevpur respectively into the Seventeenth Assembly of the legislature.

The current Social Media Department of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee is also Chaired by a tribal lawmaker Satyajeet Gomango & co-chaired by Santosh Pradhan and is purviewed by a national co-coordinator of the AICC Department of Social Media & Digital Platforms & Assets Dr Sumit Dubey. [8] [9]




List of district congress committee presidents

S. NoNameDistrictTerm
1.Sunil PradhanAngul2025
2.Satya Shiba DasBalasore2025
3.Hardeep SinghBargarh2025
4.Nalini Kanta MohantyBhadrak2025
5.Prakash Chand JenaBhubaneshwar2025
6.Anil MeherBolangir2025
7.Bindhya Bini SahuBoudh2025
8.Pradipta Kumar DasCuttack2025
9.Giribala BeheraCuttack City2025
10.Sem HemramDeogarh2025
11.Chabbiraj BiswalDhenkanal2025
12. Dasarathi Gomango Gajapati2025
13.Rashmi Ranjan PatnaikGanjam East2025
14. Ramesh Chandra Jena Ganjam West2025
15.Debaprasad NayakJagatsinghpur2025
16.Maguni Batakrushna JenaJajpur2025
17.Jeevan Sarthak DasJharsuguda2025
18.Jalandhar NaikKalahandi2025
19.Chandra Sekhar ParidaKandhamal2025
20.Debasmita SharmaKendrapara2025
21.Manoj Kumar JenaKeonjhar2025
22.Rajeeb Kumar PattanaikKhordha2025
23.Rupak TurukKoraput2025
24.G. Shrinivas RaoMalkangiri2025
25.Purna Chandra BiswalMayurbhanj East2025
26.Bhushan Bihari SahuMayurbhanj West2025
27.Lipika MajhiNabarangpur2025
28.Ranajit DasNayagarh2025
29.Ghasi Ram MajhiNuapada2025
30.Rajesh Kumar MishraPuri2025
31. Appala Swamy Kadraka Rayagada2025
32.Sabir HussainRourkela2025
33.Amit Kumar GuruSambalpur2025
34.Binod PatraSubamapur2025
35.Nirmal Chand NaikSundargarh2025

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 . [10] 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. [11]

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. [12] 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. [13] [14]

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. [15]

List of presidents

S.noPresidentPortraitTermDuration
1. Gopabandhu Das Gopabandhu Das 1964 stamp of India.jpg 19201928
2. Harekrushna Mahatab Harekrushna Mahatab 2000 stamp of India.jpg 19301931
3. Nilakantha Das Pandit Nilakantha Das.png 19341939
4. Banamali Patnaik Banamali Patnaik.jpg 19531954
5. Binayak Acharya 19671972
6. Nilamani Routray Nilamani-Routray.jpg 19721977
7. Nityananda Misra 19771980
8.Kunj Bihari Nayak19801984
9. Hemananda Biswal Hemananda-Biswal.jpg 19841989
10. Sarat Pattanayak 19891994
(9). Hemananda Biswal Hemananda-Biswal.jpg 19941998
11. Niranjan Patnaik 19982000
12. Janaki Ballabh Patnaik J B Pattnaik, Governor of Assam.jpg 20002001
13. Giridhar Gamang Giridhar-Gamang.jpg 20012004
(12). Janaki Ballabh Patnaik J B Pattnaik, Governor of Assam.jpg 20042004
14. Jayadev Jena 26 June 200428 January 20094 years, 216 days
15. Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo 28 January 20097 June 20112 years, 130 days
(11). Niranjan Patnaik 7 June 201113 May 20131 year, 340 days
(14). Jayadev Jena 13 May 201315 December 20141 year, 216 days
16. Prasad Kumar Harichandan Prasad Harichandan (cropped).JPG 15 December 201419 April 20183 years, 125 days
(11). Niranjan Patnaik 19 April 201823 May 20224 years, 34 days
(10). Sarat Pattanayak 23 May 202211 February 20252 years, 264 days
17. Bhakta Charan Das 11 February 2025Incumbent329 days

Electoral performance

Odisha Legislative Assembly election

YearParty leaderSeats wonChange
in seats		Outcome
1952 Nabakrushna Choudhury
67 / 140
NewGovernment
1957 Harekrushna Mahatab
56 / 140
Decrease2.svg 11Government
1961 Biju Patnaik
82 / 140
Increase2.svg 26Government
1967 Sadashiva Tripathy
31 / 140
Decrease2.svg 6Opposition
1971 Nandini Satpathy
51 / 140
Increase2.svg 20Opposition
1974
69 / 140
Increase2.svg18Government
1977 Binayak Acharya
26 / 140
Decrease2.svg25Opposition
1980 Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
118 / 147
Increase2.svg 87Government
1985
117 / 147
Decrease2.svg 1Government
1990 Hemananda Biswal
10 / 147
Decrease2.svg 107Opposition
1995 Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
80 / 147
Increase2.svg 70Government
2000 Hemananda Biswal
26 / 147
Decrease2.svg 54Opposition
2004 Narasingha Mishra
38 / 147
Increase2.svg 12Opposition
2009 Bhupinder Singh
27 / 147
Decrease2.svg 11Opposition
2014 Jayadev Jena
16 / 147
Decrease2.svg11Opposition
2019 Niranjan Patnaik
9 / 147
Decrease2.svg 7Opposition
2024 Sarat Pattanayak
14 / 147
Increase2.svg 5Opposition

Lok Sabha elections

Lok Sabha.svg Lok Sabha Elections
YearLok SabhaSeats contestedSeats won(+/-) in seats% of votesVote swingPopular voteOutcome
1951 1st 18
11 / 20
New black yellow.svg42.51%New black yellow.svg15,55,787Government
1957 2nd 20
7 / 20
Decrease2.svg 440.01%Decrease2.svg 2.5017,76,767Government
1962 3rd 20
14 / 20
Increase2.svg 755.53%Increase2.svg 15.5210,93,297Government
1967 4th 20
6 / 20
Decrease2.svg 833.33%Decrease2.svg 22.2013,53,704Government
1971 5th 19
15 / 20
Increase2.svg 938.46%Increase2.svg 5.1317,16,021Government
1977 6th 20
4 / 21
Decrease2.svg 1138.18%Decrease2.svg 0.2820,59,490Opposition
1980 7th 21
20 / 21
Increase2.svg 1656.07%Increase2.svg 17.8934,51,255Government
1984 8th 21
20 / 21
Steady2.svg57.46%Increase2.svg 1.3946,92,933Government
1989 9th 21
3 / 21
Decrease2.svg 1738.41%Decrease2.svg 19.0542,98,516Opposition
1991 10th 21
13 / 21
Increase2.svg 1044.05%Increase2.svg 5.6445,98,809Government
1996 11th 21
16 / 21
Increase2.svg 344.90%Increase2.svg 0.8558,50,025Opposition
1998 12th 21
5 / 21
Decrease2.svg 1141.04%Decrease2.svg 3.8654,77,410Opposition
1999 13th 20
2 / 21
Decrease2.svg 336.94%Decrease2.svg 4.1049,01,186Opposition
2004 14th 21
2 / 21
Steady2.svg40.43%Increase2.svg 3.4968,45,738Government
2009 15th 21
6 / 21
Increase2.svg 432.75%Decrease2.svg 7.6858,16,904Government
2014 16th 21
0 / 21
Decrease2.svg 425.97%Decrease2.svg 6.7855,91,380Opposition
2019 17th 18
1 / 21
Increase2.svg 113.99%Decrease2.svg 11.9832,85,339Opposition
2024 18th 20
1 / 21
Steady2.svg12.52%Decrease2.svg 1.4731,30,056Opposition

Political affairs committee

NoName
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

References

  1. ↑ "Bhakta Charan Das appointed Odisha Congress president". The Times of India. 11 February 2025. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "Niranjan Patnaik appointed Odisha Congress president". The Hindu. 20 April 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Patnaik, Sampad (20 April 2018). "Niranjan Patnaik appointed Odisha Congress President for second time". Bhubaneswar: The Indian Express. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Mohanty, Debabrata (19 April 2018). "Congress revamps Odisha unit, appoints Niranjan Patnaik as new chief". Bhubaneswar: Hindustan Times. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  6. ↑ Service, Express News (12 February 2025). "Bhakta Das appointed OPCC chief; Moquim, Srikant Jena ignored". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  7. ↑ Sahoo, Akshaya Kumar (11 February 2025). "Bhakta Charan Das appointed Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee president". www.deccanchronicle.com. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  8. ↑ "Indian National Congress". Indian National Congress. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  9. ↑ Congress, Odisha (9 July 2025). "AICC National Coordinator Dr Sumit Dubey i/c Odisha Social Media & Digital Platform is welcomed by OPCC Co-Chairman". X formerly knowns Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Review, Odisha. Participation of Odia leaders in the Indian National Congress. Government of Odisha. pp. 12–15.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ Experts, Arihant (4 June 2019). Know Your State Odisha. Arihant Publications India limited. ISBN   978-93-131-9327-2.
  15. ↑ 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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