1st Orissa Pre Independence Provincial Assembly

1st Orissa Pre Independence Provincial Assembly
1st Orissa Pre Independence Provincial Assembly
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Overview
Meeting place	Ravenshaw College Hall, Cuttack, Odisha, India
Term	3 February 1937 – 14 September 1945
Election	1937
Government	Indian National Congress
Website	assembly.odisha.gov.in
Orissa Provincial Assembly
	House Composition as on 1937
Members	60
Governor	Sir John Austen Hubback; George Townsend Boag(Acting); Sir Hawthorne Lewis
Speaker	Mukunda Prasad Das, INC
Deputy Speaker	Nanda Kishore Das, INC
Leader of the House; (Prime Minister)	Krushna Chandra Gajapati, NP; Bishwanath Das, INC; Krushna Chandra Gajapati, NP
Party control	Indian National Congress (36/60)
	10 Sessions with 188 sitting days

The First Orissa Pre Independence Provincial Assembly was convened after the 1937 Indian provincial elections.^[1]^[2]^[3]

House Composition

Party	Strength
Indian National Congress	36
United Party	6
National Party	4
No Party Affiliation	4
Nominated	4
Independent	6

Office Bearers

Post	Name	Tenure		Party
Governor	Sir John Austen Hubback	Assembly Begins	11 August 1938	N/A
	George Townsend Boag (Acting)	11 August 1938	7 December 1938
	Sir John Austen Hubback	8 December 1938	31 March 1941
	Sir Hawthorne Lewis	1 April 1941	Assembly Dissolves
Speaker	Mukunda Prasad Das Member from Central Balasore Sadar	28 July 1937	29 May 1946		Indian National Congress
Deputy Speaker	Nanda Kishore Das Member from South Balasore Sadar	28 July 1937	14 September 1945		Indian National Congress
Prime Minister	Krushna Chandra Gajapati Member from Parlakimedi	1 April 1937	19 July 1937		National Party
	Bishwanath Das Member from Ghumsur	19 July 1937	6 November 1939		Indian National Congress
	Krushna Chandra Gajapati Member from Paralakimedi	24 November 1941	30 June 1944		National Party

Council of Ministers

First Krushna Chandra Gajapati Ministry


Portfolio	Name Constituency	Tenure
Prime Minister Home Finance Law	Krushna Chandra Gajapati Member from Paralakimedi	1 April 1937	19 July 1937	National Party
Revenue Education	Gorachand Patnaik Member from Chatarapur	1 April 1937	19 July 1937	National Party
Health Local Self Government Public Works	Latifur Rahman Member from South Orissa (M)	1 April 1937	19 July 1937	National Party

First Bishwanath Das Ministry

Portfolio	Name Constituency	Tenure
Prime Minister Home Finance Education	Bishwanath Das Member from Ghumsur	19 July 1937	6 November 1939	Indian National Congress
Revenue Public Works	Nityananda Kanungo Member from South Cuttack Sadar	19 July 1937	6 November 1939	Indian National Congress
Law Commerce Health Local Self Government	Bodh Ram Dube Member from Sambalpur Sadar	19 July 1937	6 November 1939	Indian National Congress

Second Krushna Chandra Gajapati Ministry

Portfolio	Name Constituency	Tenure
Prime Minister	Krushna Chandra Gajapati Member from Paralakimedi	1 April 1937	19 July 1937	National Party
Home Affairs (Publicity) Finance Education Development	Godabarish Misra Member from West Khurda	1 April 1937	19 July 1937	Indian National Congress
Revenue Health Law Commerce	Abdus Sobran Khan Member from Balasore Cum Sambalpur (M)	1 April 1937	19 July 1937	Independent

Members of Provincial Assembly

Source
#	Constituency	Member		Remarks
Cuttack District
1	East Cuttack Sadar	Nabakrushna Choudhuri	Indian National Congress
2	North Cuttack Sadar	Atala Behari Acharya	Indian National Congress
3	North Cuttack Sadar (SC)	Kinai Samal	United Party
4	Central Cuttack Sadar	Bichitrananda Das	Indian National Congress
5	West Cuttack Sadar	Raj Krushna Bose	Indian National Congress
6	South Cuttack Sadar	Nityananda Kanungo	Indian National Congress	Minister
7	Angul	Girija Bhusan Dutta	Indian National Congress
7	Angul	Krupasindhu Bhukta	Indian National Congress	Elected in bypoll.
8	Central Kendrapara	Jadumani Mangaraj	Indian National Congress
9	East Kendrapara	Lokanath Mishra	Indian National Congress
10	North Kendrapara	Gobinda Prasad Singh	Independent
10	North Kendrapara	Braja Nath Mishra	Indian National Congress	Elected in bypoll.
11	East Jajpur	Bira Kishore Behera	Indian National Congress
12	East Jajpur (SC)	Dwarakanath Das	Indian National Congress
13	North Jajpur	Sadhu Charan Das	Indian National Congress
14	West Jajpur	Birabar Narayan Chandra Dhir Narendra	United Party
Puri District
15	East Puri Sadar	Mohan Das	Indian National Congress
16	North Puri Sadar	Jagannath Mishra	Indian National Congress
17	North Puri Sadar (SC)	Bisi Behera	Indian National Congress
18	South Puri Sadar	Jagabandhu Sinha	Indian National Congress
19	East Khurda	Prananath Patnaik	Indian National Congress
20	West Khurda	Godabarish Misra	Indian National Congress	Minister
Balasore District
21	Central Balasore Sadar	Mukunda Prasad Das	Indian National Congress	Speaker
2 2	North Balasore Sadar	Charu Chandra Ray	Indian National Congress
23	South Balasore Sadar	Nanda Kishore Das	Indian National Congress	Deputy Speaker
24	East Bhadrak	Chakradhar Behera	Indian National Congress
25	West Bhadrak	Jagannath Das	Indian National Congress
26	West Bhadrak (SC)	Nidhi Das	Indian National Congress
Sambalpur District
27	Sambalpur Sadar	Bodh Ram Dube	Indian National Congress	Minister
28	Sambalpur Sadar (BT)	Nirupalal Singh	United Party
29	East Bargarh	Fakir Behera	Indian National Congress
30	East Bargarh (SC)	Bisi Ganda	National Party
31	West Bargarh	Prahaladri Lath	Indian National Congress
32	Khariar	Artatrano Deo	United Party
Ganjam District
33	Berhampur (Group 1)	Dibakar Patnaik	Indian National Congress
34	Berhampur (Group 2)	Rama Chandra Deb	No Party Affiliation
35	Berhampur (Group 3)	Vysyaraju Kasi Viswanadham Raju	No Party Affiliation
36	Paralakimedi	Krushna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo	National Party	Chief Minister
37	Ghumsur	Biswanath Das	Indian National Congress	Chief Minister, Resigned.
37	Ghumsur	Anando Charan Rout	Indian National Congress	Elected in bypoll.
38	Kudala	Ramchandra Mardaraj Dev	United Party
39	Chatrapur	Gorachand Patnaik	National Party	Minister
40	Aska Suruda	Govind Pradhan	Indian National Congress
41	Aska Suruda (SC)	Punya Naiko	Indian National Congress
Koraput District
42	Jeypore Malkangiri	Radhamohan Sahu	Indian National Congress
43	Nawarangpur	Sadasiba Tripathy	Indian National Congress
44	Koraput	Radhakrushna Biswas Ray	Indian National Congress
45	Baliguda Khondmals	Govind Chandra Thataraj	Independent
		Bharat Bhoi	Independent	Elected in bypoll.
		Uma Charan Patnaik	Independent	Elected in bypoll.
Muhammadan Constituencies
46	Cuttack Sadar	Bahadur Saiyid Ahmad Baksi Khan	Independent
47	North Cuttack cum Anugul	Saiyid Fazle Haque	Independent
48	Balasore cum Sambalpur	Abdus Sobran Khan	Independent	Minister
49	South Orissa	Latifur Rahman	National Party	Minister
Woman Constituencies
50	Cuttack Town	Sarla Devi	Indian National Congress
51	Berhampur Town	Adruti Lakshmi Bai	Indian National Congress
Land Holder Constituencies
52	East Orissa	Rajendra Narayan Bhanja Deo Bahadur	United Party
52	East Orissa	Braja Sundar Das	National Party	Elected in Bypoll.
53	West Orissa	Raja Krisha Chandra Mansingh Harichandra Mardaraj Bhramarbar Rai	No Party Affiliation
Other Reserved Constituencies
54	Indian Christian Orissa	Premananda Mohanty	No Party Affiliation
55	Commerce and Industry Orissa	Ranglal Modi	Independent
56	Labour Orissa	Pyari Shankar Roy	Indian National Congress
Nominated Members
57	Nominated	E.M. Evans	No Party Affiliation
58		Hari Pani Jennah	No Party Affiliation
59		M.R.Ry. Arabolu Appalaswami Naidu	No Party Affiliation
60		Radha Mohan Panda	No Party Affiliation

References

^ H.N. Mitra (1937). Indian Annual Register, 1937. January - June. Vol. I. Annual Register Office.
^ Jena, B.B. (1994). "Orissa Politics". The Indian Journal of Political Science. 55 (3): 285–298. ISSN 0019-5510.
^ Dash, S. C. (1965). "Government and Politics in Orissa". The Indian Journal of Political Science. 26 (4): 83–100. ISSN 0019-5510.

[1] H.N. Mitra (1937). Indian Annual Register, 1937. January - June. Vol. I. Annual Register Office.

[2] Jena, B.B. (1994). "Orissa Politics". The Indian Journal of Political Science. 55 (3): 285–298. ISSN 0019-5510.

[3] Dash, S. C. (1965). "Government and Politics in Orissa". The Indian Journal of Political Science. 26 (4): 83–100. ISSN 0019-5510.

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