Bharatiya Janata Party, Odisha

Bharatiya Janata Party, Odisha (or BJP Odisha) (BJP; [bʱaːɾət̪iːjə dʒənət̪aː paːrtiː] ^ⓘ; lit. 'Indian People's Party'), is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Odisha. Its head office is situated at the 4R-3/2, Unit-3, Janpath, Bhubaneswar-751 001 Odisha. The current President of BJP Odisha is Manmohan Samal.^[5]

Bharatiya Janata Party, Odisha ଭାରତୀୟ ଜନତା ପାର୍ଟି, ଓଡିଶା
Abbreviation	BJP
President	Manmohan Samal
Chairperson	Jayanarayan Mishra
Founder	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Lal Krishna Advani^[1]
Founded	6 April 1980 (44 years ago) (1980-04-06)
Split from	Janata Party
Preceded by	Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951–1977) Janata Party (1977–1980)
Headquarters	4R-3/2, Unit-3, Janpath, Bhubaneswar-751 001, Odisha^[2]
Labour wing	Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh^[3]
Peasant's wing	Bharatiya Kisan Sangh^[4]
Colours	Saffron
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	8 / 21
Seats in Rajya Sabha	1 / 10
Seats in Odisha Legislative Assembly	22 / 147
Election symbol
Lotus
Party flag
Website
www.bjp.org/odisha
Politics of India Political parties Elections

Electoral performance

Lok Sabha Election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
1998	7 / 21	–	Government
1999	9 / 21	2
2004	7 / 21	2	Opposition
2009	0 / 21	7
2014	1 / 21	1	Government
2019	8 / 21	7

Legislative Assembly Election

Year	Seats contested	Seats won	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
1985	67	1 / 147	–	2.60%	New	Opposition
1990	63	2 / 147	1	3.56%	0.96
1995	144	9 / 147	7	7.88%	4.32
2000	63	38 / 147	29	18.20%	10.32	Government
2004	63	32 / 147	6	17.11%	2.06
2009	147	6 / 147	26	15.05%	1.09	Opposition
2014	147	10 / 147	4	18.0%	2.95
2019	146	23 / 147	13	32.5%	14.5

Leadership

Opposition leaders in Legislative Assembly

Main article: List of leaders of the opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly

No	Portarit	Name	Constituency	Term			Assembly	Chief Minister
1		Pradipta Kumar Naik	Bhawanipatna	25 June 2019	30 July 2022	3 years, 35 days	16th	Naveen Patnaik
2		Jayanarayan Mishra	Sambalpur	30 July 2022	incumbent	1 year, 284 days

President

No	Portrait	Name^[6]	Term
1		Biswabhusan Harichandan	1980	1988	8 years
2		Debendra Pradhan	1988	1993	5 years
3		Bimbadhar Kuanr	1993	1996	3 years
(2)		Debendra Pradhan	1996	1997	1 year
4		Jual Oram	1997	1999	2 years
5		Manmohan Samal	1999	2004	5 years
(4)		Jual Oram	2004	2006	2 years
6^[7]		Suresh Pujari	7-Nov-2006	2009	3 years
(4)		Jual Oram	2009	2013	4 years
7^[8]		Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo	10-Mar-2013	14-Jan-2016	2 years, 310 days
8^[9]		Basanta Kumar Panda	14-Jan-2016	16-Jan-2020	4 years, 2 days
9^[10]		Samir Mohanty	16-Jan-2020	23-Mar-2023	3 years, 66 days
10		Manmohan Samal	24-Mar-2023	Present	1 year, 46 days

See also

• Bharatiya Janata Party
• National Democratic Alliance

References

1. "What you need to know about India's BJP". AlJazeera. 23 May 2019. from the original on 13 May 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
2. State Office 9 November 2023 at the Wayback Machine bjp.org
3. Pragya Singh (15 January 2008). "Need to Know BJP-led BMS is biggest labour union in India". live mint. from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
4. Gupta, Sejuta Das (2019e). Class, Politics, and Agricultural Policies in Post-liberalisation India. Cambridge University Press. pp. 172–173. ISBN 978-1-108-41628-3. from the original on 14 April 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
5. State Office Bearers odisha.bjp.org
6. "State Presidents". from the original on 6 March 2023.
7. "Suresh Pujari new president of Orissa BJP". The Times of India. from the original on 11 February 2023.
8. "KV Singhdeo new president of Odisha BJP". Zee News. 10 March 2013. from the original on 11 February 2023.
9. "Basant Panda appointed new Orissa BJP president". The Economic Times. from the original on 11 February 2023.
10. "Samir Mohanty elected Odisha BJP president". India Today. from the original on 4 February 2023.