List of speakers of the Odisha Legislative Assembly

Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Seal of Odisha
Incumbent Surama Padhy since 20 June 2024
Odisha Legislative Assembly
Style	The Hon’ble (formal) Mr. Speaker (informal)
Member of	Odisha Legislative Assembly
Residence	Bhubaneswar
Seat	Vidhan Bhavan, Bhubaneshwar
Appointer	Members of the Legislative Assembly
Term length	During the life of the Odisha Legislative Assembly (five years maximum)
Inaugural holder	Mukunda Prasad Das
Deputy	vacant

The Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of Odisha, the main law-making body for the Indian state of Odisha.^[1]

In the Republic of India, the various central and state legislatures are presided by either a Speaker or a Chairman. The Speaker is elected in the very first meeting of the Odisha Legislative Assembly after the General elections for a term of 5 years from amongst the members of the Vidhan Sabha. The Speaker holds office until either they ceases to be a member of the Vidhan Sabha or he himself resigns. The Speaker can be removed from office by a resolution passed in the Vidhan Sabha by an effective majority of its members. In the absence of a Speaker, the meeting of Odisha Legislative Assembly is presided over by the Deputy Speaker.^[2]

List of Speakers

#	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure			Assembly	Party
1		Mukunda Prasad Das	Central Balasore Sadar	28 July 1937	29 May 1946	8 years, 305 days	1st Pre-Independent	Indian National Congress
2		Lal Mohan Patnaik		29 May 1946	6 March 1952	5 years, 282 days	2nd Pre-Independent
3		Nandakishore Mishra	Soro	6 March 1952	27 May 1957	5 years, 82 days	1st
4		Nilakantha Das	Satyabadi	27 May 1957	1 July 1961	4 years, 35 days	2nd
5		Lingaraj Panigrahi	Kodala East	1 July 1961	18 March 1967	5 years, 260 days	3rd
(3)		Nandakishore Mishra	Loisingha	18 March 1967	12 April 1971	7 years, 3 days	4th	Swatantra Party
				12 April 1971	21 March 1974		5th
5		Brajamohan Mohanty	Puri	21 March 1974	1 July 1977	3 years, 102 days	6th	Indian National Congress
7		Satyapriya Mohanty	Bhubaneswar	1 July 1977	12 June 1980	2 years, 347 days	7th	Janata Party
8		Somnath Rath	Bhanjanagar	12 June 1980	11 February 1984	3 years, 244 days	8th	Indian National Congress
9		Prasanna Kumar Dash	Baripada	22 February 1984	14 February 1985	358 days
				14 February 1985	9 March 1990	5 years, 23 days	9th
10		Yudhistir Das	Kissannagar	9 March 1990	22 March 1995	5 years, 13 days	10th	Janata Dal
11		Kishore Chandra Patel	Sundargarh	22 March 1995	14 January 1996	298 days	11th	Indian National Congress
12		Chintamani Dyan Samantra	Chikiti	16 February 1996	10 March 2000	4 years, 23 days		Independent
13		Sarat Kumar Kar	Mahanga	10 March 2000	21 May 2004	4 years, 72 days	12th	Biju Janata Dal
14		Maheswar Mohanty	Puri	21 May 2004	31 March 2008	3 years, 315 days	13th
15		Prahlad Dora	Chitrakonda	31 March 2008	19 August 2008	141 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
16		Kishore Kumar Mohanty	Jharsuguda	19 August 2008	25 May 2009	279 days		Biju Janata Dal
17		Pradip Kumar Amat	Boudh	25 May 2009	20 May 2014	4 years, 360 days	14th
18		Niranjan Pujari	Sonepur	26 May 2014	6 May 2017	2 years, 345 days	15th
(17)		Pradip Kumar Amat	Boudh	16 May 2017	31 May 2019	2 years, 15 days
19		Surjya Narayan Patro	Digapahandi	1 June 2019	4 June 2022	3 years, 3 days	16th
20		Bikram Keshari Arukha	Bhanjanagar	13 June 2022	12 May 2023	333 days
21		Pramila Mallik	Binjharpur	22 September 2023	3 June 2024	255 days
22		Surama Padhy	Ranpur	20 June 2024	incumbent	212 days	17th	Bharatiya Janata Party

References

1. "page error". odishaassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
2. "Brief history" (PDF). odishaassembly.nic.in. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 December 2023. Retrieved 31 December 2023.