Odisha Legislative Assembly

Odisha Legislative Assembly Odishā Vidhān Sabhā
17th Odisha Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 years
History
Founded	19 July 1937 (87 years ago) (1937-07-19)
Preceded by	Orissa Provincial Assembly
Leadership
Governor	Raghubar Das since 31 October 2023
Speaker	Surama Padhy, BJP since 20 June 2024
Deputy Speaker	Bhabani Shankar Bhoi, BJP since 24 July 2024
Leader of the House (Chief Minister)	Mohan Charan Majhi, BJP since 12 June 2024
Deputy Leader of the House (Deputy Chief Minister)	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, BJP Pravati Parida, BJP since 12 June 2024
Leader of Opposition	Naveen Patnaik, BJD since 19 June 2024
Deputy Leader of Opposition	Prasanna Acharya, BJD since 19 June 2024
Structure
Seats	147
Political groups	Government (81)   NDA (81)   BJP (79)   IND (2) Opposition (66)   BJD (51)   INDIA (15)   INC (14)   CPI(M) (1)
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	2024
Next election	2029
Meeting place
Vidhan Sabha, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India
Website
odishaassembly.nic.in

The Odisha Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Odisha state in India. The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Bhubaneswar, the capital of the state. The Legislative Assembly comprises 147 Members of Legislative Assembly.^[1] Out of total 147 Assembly Constituencies of Odisha Legislative Assembly, 33 seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST) and 24 seats for the Scheduled Castes (SC). It was announced by Odisha's Former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik that the Sachivalaya or the Secretariat building in Bhubaneswar will be called Lok Seva Bhavan.^[2]

History

Assembly Sessions

List of Assembly Sessions of Odisha Legislative Assembly^[3]

SL. No.	Name	Constitution	Dissolution	Composition	Chief Minister
A	First Pre-Independent Assembly	3 February 1937	14 September 1945	INC - 36, OTH - 14, IND - 10	Krushna Chandra Gajapati, Bishwanath Das
B	Second Pre-Independent Assembly	18 April 1946	20 February 1952	INC - 47, AIML - 4, IND - 9	Harekrushna Mahatab, Nabakrushna Choudhuri
1	First Assembly	20 February 1952	4 March 1957	INC - 67, AIGP - 31, PSP - 10, CPI - 7, AIFB - 1, IND - 24	Nabakrushna Choudhuri, Harekrushna Mahatab
2	Second Assembly	1 April 1957	25 February 1961	INC - 56, AIGP - 51, PSP - 11, CPI - 9, IND - 13	Harekrushna Mahatab
3	Third Assembly	21 June 1961	1 March 1967	INC - 82, AIGP - 37, PSP - 10, CPI - 4, IND - 7	Biju Patnaik, Biren Mitra, Sadashiva Tripathy
4	Fourth Assembly	1 March 1967	23 January 1971	SWA - 49, INC - 31, OJC - 26, PSP - 21, CPI - 7, SSP - 2, CPM - 1, IND - 3	Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo
5	Fifth Assembly	23 March 1971	3 March 1973	INC(I) - 51, SWA - 36, UC - 33, PSP - 4, CPI - 4, JAP - 4, CPM - 2, OJC - 1, INC(O) - 1, IND - 4	Bishwanath Das, Nandini Satpathy
6	Sixth Assembly	6 March 1974	30 April 1977	INC(I) - 69, UC - 35, SWA - 21, CPI - 7, CPM - 3, PSP - 2, OJC - 1, JAP - 1, IND - 7	Nandini Satpathy, Binayak Acharya
7	Seventh Assembly	26 June 1977	17 February 1980	JP - 110, INC(I) - 26, CPI - 1, CPM - 1, IND - 9	Nilamani Routray
8	Eighth Assembly	9 June 1980	9 March 1985	INC(I) - 118, JNP(SC) - 13, CPI - 4, JNP(JP) - 3, INC(U) - 2, IND - 7	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
9	Ninth Assembly	9 March 1985	3 March 1990	INC - 117, JP -21, BJP - 1, CPI - 1, IND - 7	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, Hemananda Biswal
10	Tenth Assembly	3 March 1990	15 March 1995	JD - 123, INC - 10, CPI - 5, BJP - 2, CPM - 1, IND - 6	Biju Patnaik
11	Eleventh Assembly	15 March 1995	29 February 2000	INC - 80, JD - 46, BJP - 9, JMM - 4, CPI - 1, JPP - 1, IND - 6	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, Giridhar Gamang, Hemananda Biswal
12	Twelfth Assembly	29 February 2000	6 February 2004	BJD - 68, BJP - 38, INC - 26, JMM - 3, CPI - 1, JD(S) - 1, AITC - 1, CPM - 1, IND - 8	Naveen Patnaik
13	Thirteenth Assembly	15 May 2004	19 May 2009	BJD - 61, INC - 38, BJP - 32, JMM - 4, OGP - 2, CPI - 1, CPM - 1, IND - 8	Naveen Patnaik
14	Fourteenth Assembly	19 May 2009	24 May 2014	BJD - 103, INC - 27, BJP - 6, NCP - 4, CPI - 1, IND - 6	Naveen Patnaik
15	Fifteenth Assembly	25 May 2014	29 May 2019	BJD - 117, INC - 16, BJP - 10, CPM - 1, SKD - 1, IND - 2	Naveen Patnaik
16	Sixteenth Assembly	30 May 2019	3 June 2024	BJD - 113, BJP - 23, INC - 9, CPM - 1, IND - 1	Naveen Patnaik
17	Seventeenth Assembly	June 2024	Incumbent	BJP - 79, BJD - 51, INC - 14, CPM - 1, IND - 2	Mohan Charan Majhi

Speaker

List of Speakers of Odisha Legislative Assembly^[3]

Deputy Speaker

List of Deputy Speakers of Odisha Legislative Assembly^[3]

SL. No.	Assembly Session	Portrait	Name	Party		Constituency	Term Start	Term End
1	First Pre-Independent Assembly		Nandakishore Das		Indian National Congress	South Balasore Sadar	28 July 1937	14 September 1945
2	Second Pre-Independent Assembly		Adruti Laxmibai			Berhampur Town (Women)	29 May 1946	20 February 1952
3	First Assembly		Maulabi Mahammed Hanif			Bhadrak	8 March 1952	4 March 1957
4	Second Assembly		Jadumani Mangaraj			Barchana	29 May 1957	25 February 1961
5	Third Assembly		Lokanath Mishra			Patkura	28 August 1961	1 March 1967
6	Fourth Assembly		Harihar Bahinipati		Praja Socialist Party	Puri	29 March 1967	23 January 1971
7	Fifth Assembly		Narayan Birabar Samanta		Utkal Congress	Erasama	6 May 1971	3 March 1973
8	Sixth Assembly		Chintamani Jena		Indian National Congress	Basta	29 March 1974	30 April 1977
9	Seventh Assembly		Surendra Nath Naik		Janata Party	Kakatpur	27 July 1977	17 February 1980
10	Eighth Assembly		Himansu Sekhar Padhi		Indian National Congress	Boudh	2 July 1980	9 March 1985
11	Ninth Assembly		Chintamani Dyan Samantra			Chikiti	18 March 1985	3 March 1990
12	Tenth Assembly		Prahlad Dora		Janata Dal	Chitrakonda	20 March 1990	15 March 1995
(11)	Eleventh Assembly		Chintamani Dyan Samantra		Independent	Chikiti	28 March 1995	12 February 1996
13			Bibhuti Bhusan Singh Mardaraj		Indian National Congress	Khandapada	15 March 1996	29 February 2000
14	Twelfth Assembly		Rama Chandra Panda		Bharatiya Janata Party	Chhatrapur	27 March 2000	6 February 2004
(12)	Thirteenth Assembly		Prahlad Dora			Chitrakonda	3 July 2004	19 May 2009
15	Fourteenth Assembly		Lal Bihari Himirika		Biju Janata Dal	Rayagada	10 June 2009	10 May 2011
16			Sananda Marndi			Baripada	17 August 2011	18 May 2014
(16)	Fifteenth Assembly						16 June 2014	29 May 2019
17	Sixteenth Assembly		Rajani Kant Singh			Angul	27 June 2019	8 November 2023
18			Saluga Pradhan			G. Udayagiri	21 November 2023	3 June 2024
19	Seventeenth Assembly		Bhabani Shankar Bhoi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Talasara	24 July 2024

Members of Legislative Assembly

District	No.	Constituency	Name	Party		Remarks
Bargarh	1	Padampur	Barsha Singh Bariha		Biju Janata Dal
	2	Bijepur	Sanat Kumar Gartia		Bharatiya Janata Party
	3	Bargarh	Ashwini Kumar Sarangi
	4	Attabira (SC)	Nihar Ranjan Mahanand
	5	Bhatli	Irasis Acharya
Jharsuguda	6	Brajarajnagar	Suresh Pujari
	7	Jharsuguda	Tankadhar Tripathy
Sundargarh	8	Talsara (ST)	Bhabani Shankar Bhoi
	9	Sundargarh (ST)	Jogesh Kumar Singh		Biju Janata Dal
	10	Biramitrapur (ST)	Rohit Joseph Tirkey
	11	Raghunathpali (SC)	Durga Charan Tanti		Bharatiya Janata Party
	12	Rourkela	Sarada Prashad Nayak		Biju Janata Dal
	13	Rajgangpur (ST)	C. S. Raazen Ekka		Indian National Congress
	14	Bonai (ST)	Laxman Munda		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Sambalpur	15	Kuchinda (ST)	Rabi Narayan Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	16	Rengali (SC)	Sudarshan Haripal		Biju Janata Dal
	17	Sambalpur	Jayanarayan Mishra		Bharatiya Janata Party
	18	Rairakhol	Prasanna Acharya		Biju Janata Dal
Deogarh	19	Deogarh	Romancha Ranjan Biswal
Keonjhar	20	Telkoi (ST)	Fakir Mohan Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	21	Ghasipura	Badri Narayan Patra		Biju Janata Dal
	22	Anandpur (SC)	Abhimanyu Sethi
	23	Patna (ST)	Akhila Chandra Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	24	Keonjhar (ST)	Mohan Charan Majhi			Chief Minister
	25	Champua	Sanatan Mahakud		Biju Janata Dal
Mayurbhanj	26	Jashipur (ST)	Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia		Bharatiya Janata Party
	27	Saraskana (ST)	Bhadav Hansdah
	28	Rairangpur (ST)	Jalen Naik
	29	Bangriposi (ST)	Sanjali Murmu
	30	Karanjia (ST)	Padma Charan Haiburu
	31	Udala (ST)	Bhaskar Madhei
	32	Badasahi (SC)	Sanatan Bijuli
	33	Baripada (ST)	Prakash Soren
	34	Morada	Krushna Chandra Mahapatra
Balasore	35	Jaleswar	Ashwini Kumar Patra		Biju Janata Dal
	36	Bhograi	Goutam Buddha Das
	37	Basta	Subasini Jena
	38	Balasore	Manas Kumar Dutta		Bharatiya Janata Party
	39	Remuna (SC)	Gobinda Chandra Das
	40	Nilagiri	Santosh Khatua
	41	Soro (SC)	Madhab Dhada		Biju Janata Dal
	42	Simulia	Padma Lochan Panda		Bharatiya Janata Party
Bhadrak	43	Bhandaripokhari	Sanjib Kumar Mallick		Biju Janata Dal
	44	Bhadrak	Sitansu Sekhar Mohapatra		Bharatiya Janata Party
	45	Basudevpur	Ashok Kumar Das		Indian National Congress
	46	Dhamnagar (SC)	Suryabanshi Suraj		Bharatiya Janata Party
	47	Chandabali	Byomakesh Ray		Biju Janata Dal
Jajpur	48	Binjharpur (SC)	Pramila Mallik
	49	Bari	Biswa Ranjan Mallick
	50	Barchana	Amar Kumar Nayak		Bharatiya Janata Party
	51	Dharmasala	Himanshu Sekhar Sahoo			Elected as IND
	52	Jajpur	Sujata Sahu		Biju Janata Dal
	53	Korei	Akash Dasnayak		Bharatiya Janata Party
	54	Sukinda	Pradeep Bal Samanta
Dhenkanal	55	Dhenkanal	Krushna Chandra Patra
	56	Hindol (SC)	Seemarani Nayak
	57	Kamakhyanagar	Satrughan Jena
	58	Parjanga	Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan
Angul	59	Pallahara	Ashok Mohanty
	60	Talcher	Braja Kishore Pradhan		Biju Janata Dal
	61	Angul	Pratap Chandra Pradhan		Bharatiya Janata Party
	62	Chhendipada (SC)	Agasti Behera
	63	Athmallik	Nalini Kanta Pradhan		Biju Janata Dal
Subarnapur	64	Birmaharajpur (SC)	Raghunath Jagadala		Bharatiya Janata Party
	65	Sonepur	Niranjan Pujari		Biju Janata Dal
Bolangir	66	Loisingha (SC)	Mukesh Mahaling		Bharatiya Janata Party
	67	Patnagarh	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo			Deputy Chief Minister
	68	Bolangir	Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo		Biju Janata Dal
	69	Titlagarh	Nabin Kumar Jain		Bharatiya Janata Party
	70	Kantabanji	Laxman Bag
Nuapada	71	Nuapada	Rajendra Dholakia		Biju Janata Dal
	72	Khariar	Adhiraj Mohan Panigrahi
Nabarangpur	73	Umarkote (ST)	Nityananda Gond		Bharatiya Janata Party
	74	Jharigam (ST)	Narsing Bhatra
	75	Nabarangpur (ST)	Gouri Shankar Majhi
	76	Dabugam (ST)	Manohar Randhari		Biju Janata Dal
Kalahandi	77	Lanjigarh (ST)	Pradip Kumar Dishari
	78	Junagarh	Dibya Shankar Mishra
	79	Dharmagarh	Sudhir Ranjan Pattjoshi		Bharatiya Janata Party
	80	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Sagar Charan Das		Indian National Congress
	81	Narla	Manorama Mohanty		Biju Janata Dal
Kandhamal	82	Baliguda (ST)	Chakramani Kanhar
	83	G. Udayagiri (ST)	Prafulla Chandra Pradhan		Indian National Congress
	84	Phulbani (ST)	Uma Charan Mallick		Bharatiya Janata Party
Boudh	85	Kantamal	Kanhai Charan Danga
	86	Boudh	Saroj Kumar Pradhan
Cuttack	87	Baramba	Bijaya Kumar Dalabehera		Independent
	88	Banki	Devi Ranjan Tripathy		Biju Janata Dal
	89	Athgarh	Ranendra Pratap Swain
	90	Barabati-Cuttack	Sofia Firdous		Indian National Congress
	91	Choudwar-Cuttack	Souvic Biswal		Biju Janata Dal
	92	Niali (SC)	Chhabi Malik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	93	Cuttack Sadar (SC)	Prakash Chandra Sethi
	94	Salipur	Prasanta Behera		Biju Janata Dal
	95	Mahanga	Sarada Prasad Padhan		Independent
Kendrapara	96	Patkura	Arvind Mohapatra		Biju Janata Dal
	97	Kendrapara (SC)	Ganeswar Behera
	98	Aul	Pratap Keshari Deb
	99	Rajanagar	Dhruba Charan Sahoo
	100	Mahakalapada	Durga Prasan Nayak		Bharatiya Janata Party
Jagatsinghpur	101	Paradeep	Sampad Chandra Swain
	102	Tirtol (SC)	Ramakanta Bhoi		Biju Janata Dal
	103	Balikuda-Erasama	Sarada Prasanna Jena
	104	Jagatsinghpur	Amarendra Das		Bharatiya Janata Party
Puri	105	Kakatpur (SC)	Tusarakanti Behera		Biju Janata Dal
	106	Nimapara	Pravati Parida		Bharatiya Janata Party	Deputy Chief Minister
	107	Puri	Sunil Kumar Mohanty		Biju Janata Dal
	108	Brahmagiri	Upasna Mohapatra		Bharatiya Janata Party
	109	Satyabadi	Om Prakash Mishra
	110	Pipili	Ashrit Pattanayak
Khordha	111	Jayadev (SC)	Naba Kishor Mallick		Biju Janata Dal
	112	Bhubaneswar Central	Ananta Narayan Jena
	113	Bhubaneswar North	Susant Kumar Rout
	114	Ekamra Bhubaneswar	Babu Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
	115	Jatani	Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray		Biju Janata Dal
	116	Begunia	Pradip Kumar Sahu
	117	Khurda	Prasanta Kumar Jagadev		Bharatiya Janata Party
	118	Chilika	Prithiviraj Harichandan
Nayagarh	119	Ranpur	Surama Padhy
	120	Khandapada	Dusmanta Kumar Swain
	121	Daspalla (SC)	Ramesh Chandra Behera		Biju Janata Dal
	122	Nayagarh	Arun Kumar Sahoo
Ganjam	123	Bhanjanagar	Pradyumna Kumar Nayak		Bharatiya Janata Party
	124	Polasara	Gokulananda Mallik
	125	Kabisuryanagar	Pratap Chandra Nayak
	126	Khalikote (SC)	Purna Chandra Sethy
	127	Chhatrapur (SC)	Krushna Chandra Nayak
	128	Aska	Saroj Kumar Padhi
	129	Surada	Nilamani Bisoyi
	130	Sanakhemundi	Ramesh Chandra Jena		Indian National Congress
	131	Hinjili	Naveen Patnaik		Biju Janata Dal
	132	Gopalpur	Bibhuti Bhushan Jena		Bharatiya Janata Party
	133	Berhampur	K. Anil Kumar
	134	Digapahandi	Sidhant Mohapatra
	135	Chikiti	Manoranjan Dyan Samantara
Gajapati	136	Mohana (ST)	Dasarathi Gomango		Indian National Congress
	137	Paralakhemundi	Rupesh Kumar Panigrahi		Biju Janata Dal
Rayagada	138	Gunupur (ST)	Satyajeet Gomango		Indian National Congress
	139	Bissam Cuttack (ST)	Nilamadhab Hikaka
	140	Rayagada (ST)	Kadraka Appala Swamy
Koraput	141	Lakshmipur (ST)	Pabitra Saunta
	142	Kotpad (ST)	Rupu Bhatra		Bharatiya Janata Party
	143	Jeypore	Tara Prasad Bahinipati		Indian National Congress
	144	Koraput (SC)	Raghuram Machha		Bharatiya Janata Party
	145	Pottangi (ST)	Rama Chandra Kadam		Indian National Congress
Malkangiri	146	Malkangiri (ST)	Narasinga Madkami		Bharatiya Janata Party
	147	Chitrakonda (ST)	Mangu Khilla		Indian National Congress

See also

• Government of Odisha
• List of constituency of Odisha legislative assembly

References

1. "Orissa Legislative Assembly". legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in. 2005. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2012. The strength of Assembly was later increased to 147 with effect from the Sixth Legislative Assembly (1974).
2. "Odisha Secretariat renamed Lok Seva Bhavan". The Hindu. 30 July 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
3. "Brief history" (PDF). odishaassembly.nic.in. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 December 2023. Retrieved 31 December 2023.

External links

• Odisha Legislative Assembly website Archived 30 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine