Naveen Patnaik is an Indian politician, writer and former Chief Minister of Odisha who served as the 14th Chief Minister of Odisha from 5 March 2000 to 12 June 2024. His 24-year reign is the second longest for a chief minister of any Indian state, after Pawan Kumar Chamling of Sikkim. He is the first president of the Biju Janata Dal since 1997. He served as the Union Minister of Steel and Mines from 1998 to 2000 and a member of the Lok Sabha from Aska from 1997 to 2000.
Dhamnagar is a town and a notified area committee in Bhadrak district in the state of Odisha, India.
Kandhamal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India. This constituency came into existence in 2008, following the implementation of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002.
Raghubar Das is an Indian politician who has served as the 26th governor of Odisha since 2023. Das has previously served as the sixth chief minister of Jharkhand from 2014 to 2019. He belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party and has twice served as the president of Jharkhand BJP.
Abhay Singh Chautala is an Indian politician. He was a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from Ellenabad. He served as Leader of the Opposition in Haryana Legislative Assembly from 2014 to 2019. He has been elected to the Haryana Legislative Assembly for four terms since 2010. He served as the 10th president of Indian Olympic Association. He also served as president of the Boxing Federation of India. He is grandson of Devi Lal, former deputy prime minister of India. He is a member of the Indian National Lok Dal.
Dhamnagar is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Bhadrak district, Odisha.
Jagatsinghpur is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Jagatsinghpur district, Odisha.
Ganesh Hukkeri is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is a three-time member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election representing Indian National Congress from Chikkodi-Sadalga Assembly Constituency.
Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh, popularly known as "Rani Maa Nayagarh" is an Indian politician from Odisha.
Mohan Charan Majhi is an Indian politician, currently serving as the 15th Chief Minister of Odisha. He was elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly from Keonjhar in the 2024 Odisha Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He also represented the same constituency from 2000 to 2009 and from 2019 to 2024. He served as the chief whip of the BJP in the Odisha assembly from 2019 to 2024. In the year 1997, he entered politics as a Sarpanch.
Pushkar Singh Dhami is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, serving as the 10th and the current Chief Minister of Uttarakhand since 2021. He represents the Champawat Assembly constituency in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly since 2022 and previously from Khatima from 2012 to 2022. He lost his seat in 2022 elections, but was re-elected as Chief Minister by BJP MLAs. He is the only Chief Minister of the state to assume a second consecutive term as CM, since its creation.
Bishnu Sethi ( ) was an Indian politician who served in the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
Neeraj Zimba Tamang is an Indian Gorkha politician. He is the Central Committee Member and presently Secretary General and Legal Adviser of Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF). He was GNLF Spokesperson till 2019. He is also a practicing Criminal Lawyer by profession. He serves as an MLA in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from the 23-Darjeeling Assembly constituency after winning on a Bharatiya Janta Party [BJP] ticket in 2019 by polls.
Biyuram Wahge is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the president of state's BJP unit. He is a member of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing Pakke-Kessang constituency.
Rudra Pratap Maharathy is an Indian politician from Odisha. He is active with Biju Janata Dal in Odisha politics. He was elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly in the 2021 Pipili bypoll as a member of the Biju Janata Dal. He defeated Ashrit Pattanayak of Bharatiya Janata Party in a margin of 20,916 votes. In 2024 Odisha Assembly Election, he lost to Ashrit Pattanayak of Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 15,162 votes.
Kailash Chandra Gahtori was an Indian businessman and politician who served in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from 2017 until his resignation in 2022, representing the Champawat constituency as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Aman Giri is an Indian politician. He represented the Gola Gokrannath Assembly constituency in Gola Gokarannath, Lakhimpur district of Uttar Pradesh.
Kishore Kumar Mohanty was an Indian politician who served as Member of Rajya Sabha from Odisha, Speaker and Member of Odisha Legislative Assembly from Jharsuguda Assembly constituency and Brajarajnagar Assembly constituency and Chairman of Western Odisha Development Council.
Radharani Panda is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party who served as a Member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly from 2014 to 2019. In the 2022 elections in India, she was the candidate from Bharatiya Janata Party for Brajarajnagar Assembly constituency.
Barsha Singh Bariha is an Indian politician from the Biju Janata Dal representing the Padampur constituency in the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
