17th Odisha Legislative Assembly

17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
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Overview
Meeting place	Odisha Vidhan Soudha, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India
Term	4 June 2024 – Incumbent
Election	2024
Government	Bharatiya Janata Party
Opposition	Biju Janata Dal
Website	odishaassembly.nic.in
Odisha Legislative Assembly
	Assembly in Session
Members	147
Governor	Raghubar Das; Kambhampati Hari Babu
Speaker	Surama Padhy, BJP
Deputy Speaker	Bhabani Shankar Bhoi, BJP
Leader of the House; (Chief Minister)	Mohan Charan Majhi, BJP
Deputy Leader of the House; (Deputy Chief Minister)	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, BJP; Pravati Parida, BJP
Leader of Opposition	Naveen Patnaik, BJD
Party control	BJP (81/147)
	3 Sessions with 62 Sittings

The Seventeenth Odisha Legislative Assembly was constituted after the 2024 Odisha Legislative Assembly elections, which were concluded on 1 June 2024, and the previous assembly term ending on 24 June 2024.^[1]^[2]

House Composition

Party	Strength
Party	Assembly Begins	As of today
Bharatiya Janata Party	78	79
Biju Janata Dal	51	42
Indian National Congress	14	11
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1	1
Independent	3	14
Vacant	-	-

Office Bearers

Position	Name	Tenure		Party
Governor	Raghubar Das	Assembly Begins	2 January 2025	N/A
Governor	Kambhampati Hari Babu	3 January 2025	Incumbent	N/A
Speaker	Surama Padhy MLA from Ranpur	20 June 2024	Incumbent		Bharatiya Janata Party
Deputy Speaker	Bhabani Shankar Bhoi MLA from Talsara	25 July 2024	Incumbent		Bharatiya Janata Party
Leader of the House (Chief Minister) Leader of BJP Legislature Party	Mohan Charan Majhi MLA from Keonjhar	12 June 2024	Incumbent		Bharatiya Janata Party
Deputy Leader of the House (Deputy Chief Minister) Deputy Leader of BJP Legislature Party	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo MLA from Patnagarh	12 June 2024	Incumbent		Bharatiya Janata Party
	Pravati Parida MLA from Nimapara	12 June 2024	Incumbent		Bharatiya Janata Party
Leader of Opposition Leader of BJD Legislature Party	Naveen Patnaik MLA from Hinjili	19 June 2024	Incumbent		Biju Janata Dal
Deputy Leader of Opposition Deputy Leader of BJD Legislature Party	Prasanna Acharya MLA from Rairakhol	19 June 2024	Incumbent		Biju Janata Dal
Leader of Congress Legislature Party	Rama Chandra Kadam MLA from Pottangi	21 June 2024	Incumbent		Indian National Congress
Pro tem Speaker	Ranendra Pratap Swain MLA from Athgarh	17 June 2025	19 June 2025		Biju Janata Dal

Council of Minister


Portfolio	Name Constituency	Tenure
Chief Minister Home General Administration & Public Grievance Finance Information & Public Relations Water Resources Planning & Coordination Other departments not allocated to any Minister.	Mohan Charan Majhi MLA from Keonjhar	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Cabinet Minister
Deputy Chief Minister Agriculture & Farmers Empowerment Energy	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo MLA from Patnagarh	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Deputy Chief Minister Women & Child Development Mission Shakti Tourism	Pravati Parida MLA from Nimapara	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Revenue & Disaster Management	Suresh Pujari MLA from Brajarajnagar	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Rural Development Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water	Rabi Narayan Naik MLA from Kuchinda	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
School & Mass Education S.T. & S.C. Development, Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare Social Security & Empowerment of Persons with Disability	Nityananda Gond MLA from Umerkote	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare Science & Technology	Krushna Chandra Patra MLA from Dhenkanal	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Law Works Excise	Prithviraj Harichandan MLA from Chilika	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Health & Family Welfare Parliamentary Affairs Electronics & Information Technology	Mukesh Mahaling MLA from Loisingha	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Commerce and Transport Steel & Mines	Bibhuti Bhusan Jena MLA from Gopalpur	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Housing & Urban Development Public Enterprises	Krushna Chandra Mohapatra MLA from Morada	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Ministers of State with Independent Charges
Forest & Environment and Climate Change Labour & Employees' State Insurance	Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia MLA from Jashipur	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Higher Education Sports & Youth Services Odia Language, Literature & Culture	Suryabanshi Suraj MLA from Dhamnagar	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Co-operation Handlooms, Textiles & Handicrafts	Pradeep Bal Samanta MLA from Sukinda]	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Fisheries & Animal Resources Development Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises	Gokula Nanda Mallik MLA from Polasara	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP
Industries Skill Development & Technical Education	Sampad Chandra Swain MLA from Paradeep	12 June 2024	Incumbent	BJP

Members of Legislative Assembly

Source
District	Ac. No.	Constituency	Name		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		Cabinet Minister
Jharsuguda	7	Jharsuguda	Tankadhar Tripathy
Sundargarh	8	Talsara (ST)	Bhabani Shankar Bhoi		Deputy Speaker
	9	Sundargarh (ST)	Jogesh Kumar Singh	Biju Janata Dal
	10	Biramitrapur (ST)	Rohit Joseph Tirkey	Biju Janata Dal
	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	Chief Whip, Congress
	14	Bonai (ST)	Laxman Munda	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Sambalpur	15	Kuchinda (ST)	Rabi Narayan Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	16	Rengali (SC)	Sudarshan Haripal	Biju Janata Dal
	17	Sambalpur	Jayanarayan Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party
	18	Rairakhol	Prasanna Acharya	Biju Janata Dal	Deputy Leader of Opposition
Deogarh	19	Deogarh	Romanch Ranjan Biswal	Biju Janata Dal
Keonjhar	20	Telkoi (ST)	Fakir Mohan Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	21	Ghasipura	Badri Narayan Patra	Biju Janata Dal
	22	Anandpur (SC)	Abhimanyu Sethi	Biju Janata Dal
	23	Patna (ST)	Akhila Chandra Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	24	Keonjhar (ST)	Mohan Charan Majhi	Bharatiya Janata Party	Chief Minister
	25	Champua	Sanatan Mahakud	Biju Janata Dal	Suspended from Party for Anti Party Activities^[3]
Mayurbhanj	26	Jashipur (ST)	Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia	Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State (I/C)
	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 Mohapatra		Cabinet Minister
Balasore	35	Jaleswar	Aswini Kumar Patra	Biju Janata Dal
	36	Bhograi	Goutam Buddha Das
	37	Basta	Subasini Jena		Suspended from Party for cross voting in 2026 RS election^[4]
	38	Balasore	Manas Kumar Dutta	Bharatiya Janata Party
	39	Remuna (SC)	Gobinda Chandra Das		Deputy Govt. Chief Whip
	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	Deputy Leader of Congress Legislature Party
	46	Dhamnagar (SC)	Suryabanshi Suraj	Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State (I/C)
	47	Chandabali	Byomakesh Ray	Biju Janata Dal
Jajpur	48	Binjharpur (SC)	Pramila Mallik		Chief Whip, BJD
	49	Bari	Biswa Ranjan Mallick
	50	Barchana	Amar Kumar Nayak	Bharatiya Janata Party
	51	Dharmasala	Himanshu Sekhar Sahoo	Independent	Supports Bharatiya Janata Party
	52	Jajpur	Sujata Sahu	Biju Janata Dal
	53	Korei	Akash Dasnayak	Bharatiya Janata Party
	54	Sukinda	Pradeep Bal Samanta		Minister of State (I/C)
Dhenkanal	55	Dhenkanal	Krushna Chandra Patra		Cabinet Minister
	56	Hindol (SC)	Simarani 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	Bharatiya Janata Party
	63	Athmallik	Nalini Kanta Pradhan	Biju Janata Dal
Subarnapur	64	Birmaharajpur (SC)	Raghunath Jagadala	Bharatiya Janata Party
Subarnapur	65	Sonepur	Niranjan Pujari	Biju Janata Dal
Bolangir	66	Loisingha (SC)	Mukesh Mahaling	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	67	Patnagarh	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo	Bharatiya Janata Party	Deputy Chief Minister
	68	Bolangir	Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo	Biju Janata Dal
	69	Titlagarh	Nabin Kumar Jain	Bharatiya Janata Party
	70	Kantabanji	Laxman Bag	Bharatiya Janata Party
Nuapada	71	Nuapada	Rajendra Dholakia	Biju Janata Dal	Died on 8 September 2025^[5]
	71	Nuapada	Jay Dholakia	Bharatiya Janata Party	Won in November 2025 Bypoll^[6]
	72	Khariar	Adhiraj Mohan Panigrahi	Biju Janata Dal
Nabarangpur	73	Umarkote (ST)	Nityananda Gond	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	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	Biju Janata Dal	Suspended from Party for cross voting in 2026 RS election^[4]
	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
Boudh	86	Boudh	Saroj Kumar Pradhan		Govt. Chief Whip
Cuttack	87	Baramba	Bijaya Kumar Dalabehera	Independent	Supports Bharatiya Janata Party
	88	Banki	Devi Ranjan Tripathy	Biju Janata Dal	Suspended from Party for cross voting in 2026 RS election^[4]
	89	Athgarh	Ranendra Pratap Swain	Biju Janata Dal
	90	Barabati-Cuttack	Sofia Firdous	Indian National Congress	Suspended from Party for cross voting in 2026 RS election^[7]
	91	Choudwar-Cuttack	Souvic Biswal	Biju Janata Dal	Suspended from Party for cross voting in 2026 RS election^[4]
	92	Niali (SC)	Chhabi Malik	Bharatiya Janata Party
	93	Cuttack Sadar (SC)	Prakash Chandra Sethi	Bharatiya Janata Party
	94	Salipur	Prasanta Behera	Biju Janata Dal
	95	Mahanga	Sarada Prasad Padhan	Independent	Supports Bharatiya Janata Party
Kendrapara	96	Patkura	Arvind Mohapatra	Biju Janata Dal	Suspended from Party for Anti Party Activities^[3]
	97	Kendrapara (SC)	Ganeswar Behera
	98	Aul	Pratap Keshari Deb		Deputy Chief Whip, BJD
	99	Rajanagar	Dhruba Charan Sahoo
	100	Mahakalapada	Durga Prasan Nayak	Bharatiya Janata Party
Jagatsinghpur	101	Paradeep	Sampad Chandra Swain	Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State (I/C)
	102	Tirtol (SC)	Ramakanta Bhoi	Biju Janata Dal	Suspended from Party for cross voting in 2026 RS election^[4]
	103	Balikuda-Erasama	Sarada Prasanna Jena	Biju Janata Dal
	104	Jagatsinghpur	Amarendra Das	Bharatiya Janata Party
Puri	105	Kakatpur (SC)	Tusharkanti 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	Suspended from Party for cross voting in 2026 RS election^[4]
	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	Biju Janata Dal
	117	Khurda	Prasanta Kumar Jagadev	Bharatiya Janata Party
	118	Chilika	Prithviraj Harichandan		Cabinet Minister
Nayagarh	119	Ranpur	Surama Padhy		Speaker
	120	Khandapada	Dusmanta Kumar Swain
	121	Daspalla (SC)	Ramesh Chandra Behera	Biju Janata Dal
	122	Nayagarh	Arun Kumar Sahoo	Biju Janata Dal
Ganjam	123	Bhanjanagar	Pradyumna Kumar Nayak	Bharatiya Janata Party
	124	Polasara	Gokula Nanda Mallik		Minister of State (I/C)
	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	Suspended from Party for cross voting in 2026 RS election^[7]
	131	Hinjili	Naveen Patnaik	Biju Janata Dal	Leader of Opposition
	132	Gopalpur	Bibhuti Bhushan Jena	Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	133	Berhampur	K. Anil Kumar
	134	Digapahandi	Sidhant Mohapatra
	135	Chikiti	Manoranjan Dyan Samantara
Gajapati	136	Mohana (ST)	Dasarathi Gomango	Indian National Congress	Suspended from Party for cross voting in 2026 RS election^[7]
Gajapati	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	Leader of Congress Legislature Party
Malkangiri	146	Malkangiri (ST)	Narasinga Madkami	Bharatiya Janata Party
Malkangiri	147	Chitrakonda (ST)	Mangu Khilla	Indian National Congress

Bypolls

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
11 November 2025^[6]	71	Nuapada	Rajendra Dholakia		Biju Janata Dal	Died on 8 September 2025^[8]	Jay Dholakia^[6]		Bharatiya Janata Party

References

^ "Odisha Assembly elections 2024: Polls to be held in 4 phases; 3.32 crore voters will exercise franchise". The Indian Express. 16 March 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
^ "Terms of the Houses". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 28 March 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b "BJD suspends 2 MLAs, cites anti-party activities". The Times of India. 16 January 2026. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "BJD suspends 6 MLAs for RS cross-voting". The Times of India. 22 March 2026. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
^ "Odisha BJD MLA Rajendra Dholakia passes away at 68; was suffering from kidney-related ailments". The Times of India. 8 September 2025. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Jay Dholakia wins Nuapada bypoll as BJP surges; BJD secures third spot". The Times of India. 14 November 2025. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
^ ^a ^b ^c Service, Express News (18 March 2026). "Odisha Congress suspends three MLAs, seeks disqualification for cross-voting in Rajya Sabha election". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
^ "BJD leader and Nuapada MLA Dholakia dies at 69". The New Indian Express. 9 September 2025. Retrieved 17 October 2025.

[1] "Odisha Assembly elections 2024: Polls to be held in 4 phases; 3.32 crore voters will exercise franchise". The Indian Express. 16 March 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2024.

[2] "Terms of the Houses". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 28 March 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

[:0-3] "BJD suspends 2 MLAs, cites anti-party activities". The Times of India. 16 January 2026. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 23 March 2026.

[:1-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "BJD suspends 6 MLAs for RS cross-voting". The Times of India. 22 March 2026. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 23 March 2026.

[5] "Odisha BJD MLA Rajendra Dholakia passes away at 68; was suffering from kidney-related ailments". The Times of India. 8 September 2025. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 8 September 2025.

[:2-6] "Jay Dholakia wins Nuapada bypoll as BJP surges; BJD secures third spot". The Times of India. 14 November 2025. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 23 March 2026.

[:3-7] Service, Express News (18 March 2026). "Odisha Congress suspends three MLAs, seeks disqualification for cross-voting in Rajya Sabha election". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 23 March 2026.

[8] "BJD leader and Nuapada MLA Dholakia dies at 69". The New Indian Express. 9 September 2025. Retrieved 17 October 2025.

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