Pratap Chandra Sarangi | |
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Minister of State, Government of India | |
In office 31 May 2019 –7 July 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
Minister | Nitin Gadkari |
Ministry | Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises |
In office 31 May 2019 –7 July 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
Minister | Giriraj Singh |
Ministry | Animal Husbandry,Dairying and Fisheries |
Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha | |
Assumed office 23 May 2019 | |
Preceded by | Rabindra Kumar Jena |
Constituency | Balasore |
Member of Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
In office 2004–2014 | |
Preceded by | Pradipta Panda |
Succeeded by | Sukanta Kumar Nayak |
Constituency | Nilagiri |
Personal details | |
Born | Gopinathpur,Odisha,India | 4 January 1955
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Alma mater | Fakir Mohan College,Utkal University |
Pratap Chandra Sarangi (born 4 January 1955),was the Minister of State in the Government of India for Animal Husbandry,Dairying and Fisheries and Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises. He is a Politician from Balasore,Odisha and serves as a National Executive member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He won Odisha Legislative Assembly,two times:from 2004 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2014,both times from Nilagiri constituency. [1]
He revolutionalised primary education in rural areas through the innovative concept of community funded Ekal Vidyalaya or single teacher schools. [2]
Pratap Chandra Sarangi was born on 4 January 1955 in the village of Gopinathpur,Nilagiri,Balasore into a Brahmin family. [3] He completed his bachelor's degree at Fakir Mohan College,Balasore under Utkal university in 1975. [4]
Since his childhood,Sarangi was a spiritual seeker. He wanted to become a monk of the Ramakrishna Math. He made several visits to Belur Math,the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Order in Howrah,West Bengal. The monks of the Math discussed with Sarangi about his desire and examined his biodata. They discovered that Sarangi's widowed mother was alive. They insisted that he should go back and serve her. After his return to his village,he became involved in various social activities. [5]
Initially,Sarangi served as a district level volunteer of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and also worked for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal. [6] [ better source needed ] He opened schools for the poor called Samar Kara Kendra,under the Gana Shikhsa Mandir Yojana in tribal villages in Balasore and Mayurbhanj District [7] [ better source needed ].
His main part of his life is as a Head Clerk in Nilgiri College,Nilgiri,Balasore,Odisha. He also contested in the 2014 Indian general election from Balasore,Lok Sabha constituency as a BJP candidate,which he lost. [8] He contested again in the 2019 Indian general election from Balasore,Lok Sabha constituency as a BJP candidate,in which he defeated the Biju Janata Dal candidate and sitting MP,Rabindra Kumar Jena,by a margin of 12,956 votes. [9]
In May 2019,Sarangi became Minister of State for Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises and Animal Husbandry,Dairying and Fisheries. [10]
In 1999 Australian Christian missionary Graham Staines and his two children were burnt to death whilst sleeping in their station wagon in the village of Manoharpur-Keonjhar in Odisha,allegedly by a gang of Bajrang Dal. Pratap Sarangi was the chief of the Bajrang Dal during the year 1999. [11] After the trial,a man named Dara Singh who had links to the Bajrang Dal,and 12 others were convicted of the crime in 2003. Mr. Sarangi denied the fact saying that the investigation was not done in an unbiased and proper way. The high court in Odisha commuted a death sentence for Singh two years later and freed 11 others who were sentenced to life-term prison citing no evidence against the accused,including Pratap Sarangi. [12] Although an official inquiry by the Wadhwa Commission,found no evidence of any one single group's involvement in the attack,13 people associated with Bajrang Dal were later convicted. [13] Another official inquiry by the National Commission for Minorities found that the killers cheered " bajrang dal Zindabad" before the attack. [14]
He was also arrested on charges of rioting,arson,assault and damaging government property after a 2002 attack on the Orissa state assembly by Hindu right-wing groups,including the Bajrang Dal. [12] [15]
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