List of leaders of the opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Leader of the opposition in Odisha's unicameral legislature
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The leader of the opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly is the politician who leads the official opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
StyleHonourable Leader of Opposition
MemberofOdisha Legislative Assembly
ResidenceNaveen Niwas, Bhubaneswar
SeatOffice of the Leader of Opposition, Odisha Legislative Assembly
| Leader of the Opposition of the Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
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| Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
| Style | Honourable Leader of Opposition |
| Member of | Odisha Legislative Assembly |
| Residence | Naveen Niwas, Bhubaneswar |
| Seat | Office of the Leader of Opposition, Odisha Legislative Assembly |
| Nominator | Members of the Official Opposition Party of the Odisha Legislative Assembly |
| Appointer |
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| Term length |
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| Inaugural holder | Shraddhakar Supakar |
| Deputy | Prasanna Acharya |
| Salary |
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Eligibility
Official Opposition[1] is a term used to designate the political party which has secured the second largest number of seats in the assembly. In order to get formal recognition, the party must have at least 10% of total membership of the Legislative Assembly. A single party has to meet the 10% seat criterion, not an alliance. Many of the Indian state legislatures also follow this 10% rule while the rest prefer single largest opposition party according to the rules of their respective houses.
List of Leaders of Opposition
| # | Portrait | Name (lifespan) Constituency |
Tenure | Chief Minister | Assembly (Election) |
Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Shraddhakar Supakar (1914–1993) MLA from Rairakhol |
16 February 1952 | 4 March 1957 | 5 years, 16 days | Nabakrushna Choudhuri | 1st (1952) |
All India Ganatantra Parishad | |
| 2 |  |
Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo (1912–1975) MLA from Titlagarh |
1 April 1957 | 22 May 1959 | 2 years, 51 days | Nabakrushna Choudhuri
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2nd (1957) | ||
| President's rule was imposed in during the period (25 February – 23 June 1961) | |||||||||
| (2) | |
Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo (1912–1975) MLA from Kantabanji |
21 June 1961 | 1 March 1967 | 5 years, 253 days | Biju Patnaik
|
3rd (1961) |
All India Ganatantra Parishad | |
| 3 |  |
Sadashiva Tripathy (1910–1980) MLA from Nowrangpur |
18 March 1967 | 11 January 1971 | 3 years, 311 days | Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo | 4th (1967) |
Indian National Congress | |
| President's rule was imposed in during the period (11 January – 3 April 1971) | |||||||||
| 4 |  |
Binayak Acharya (1918–1983) MLA from Berhampur |
4 May 1971 | 14 June 1972 | 1 year, 41 days | Bishwanath Das | 5th (1971) |
Indian National Congress | |
| (2) | |
Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo (1912–1975) MLA from Bolangir |
14 June 1972 | 9 February 1973 | 240 days | Nandini Satpathy | Swatantra Party | ||
| 5 |  |
Biju Patnaik (1916–1997) MLA from Rajanagar |
9 February 1973 | 3 March 1973 | 22 days | Utkal Congress | |||
| President's rule was imposed in during the period (3 March 1973 – 6 March 1974) | |||||||||
| (5) | |
Biju Patnaik (1916–1997) MLA from Rajanagar |
19 March 1974 | 10 December 1974 | 266 days | Nandini Satpathy | 6th (1974) |
Utkal Congress | |
| 10 December 1974 | 16 December 1976 | 2 years, 6 days | Bharatiya Lok Dal | ||||||
| President's rule was imposed in during the period (16 December – 29 December 1976) | |||||||||
| (5) | |
Biju Patnaik (1916–1997) MLA from Rajanagar |
30 December 1976 | 24 March 1977 | 84 days | Binayak Acharya | 6th (1974) |
Bharatiya Lok Dal | |
| 6 |  |
Ram Prasad Mishra (1920–2014) MLA from Kantabanji |
31 March 1977 | 30 April 1977 | 30 days | Janata Party | |||
| President's rule was imposed in during the period (30 April – 26 June 1977) | |||||||||
| 7 |  |
Chintamani Panigrahi (1922–2000) MLA from Begunia |
29 June 1977 | 20 February 1978 | 236 days | Nilamani Routray | 7th (1977) |
Indian National Congress (R) | |
| 8 |  |
Brundaban Nayak (1912–1984) MLA from Hinjili |
20 February 1978 | 3 September 1979 | 1 year, 195 days | Indian National Congress (I) | |||
| 9 |  |
Prahlad Mallik (1929–1990) MLA from Patkura |
3 September 1979 | 13 February 1980 | 163 days | Orissa Janata Party | |||
| 10 |  |
Ananta Narayan Singh Deo (1929–2003) MLA from Surada |
13 February 1980 | 17 February 1980 | 4 days | Janata Party | |||
| President's rule was imposed in during the period (17 February – 9 June 1980) | |||||||||
| - | Vacant[a] | 9 June 1980 | 1 April 1984 | 3 years, 297 days | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | 8th (1980) |
No Official Opposition | ||
| 11 |  |
Sarat Kumar Deb (1944–1988) MLA from Aul |
2 April 1984 | 10 March 1985 | 342 days | Janata Party (Secular) | |||
| (5) | |
Biju Patnaik (1916–1997) MLA from Bhubaneswar |
22 March 1985 | 3 March 1990 | 4 years, 346 days | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
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9th (1985) |
Janata Party | |
| - | Vacant[b] | 5 March 1990 | 15 March 1995 | 5 years, 10 days | Biju Patnaik | 10th (1990) |
No Official Opposition | ||
| (5) | |
Biju Patnaik (1916–1997) MLA from Bhubaneswar |
23 March 1995 | 20 May 1996 | 1 year, 58 days | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
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11th (1995) |
Janata Dal | |
| 12 |  |
Ashok Kumar Das (1942–2008) MLA from Korei |
22 May 1996 | 17 December 1997 | 1 year, 209 days | ||||
| 13 |  |
Ram Krushna Patnaik (1940–2021) MLA from Kodala |
22 February 1998 | 16 November 1998 | 267 days | Biju Janata Dal | |||
| 14 |  |
Prafulla Samal (born 1947) MLA from Bhadrak |
16 November 1998 | 1 December 1998 | 15 days | ||||
| 15 |  |
Satchidananda Dalal (born 1941) MLA from Boudh |
11 December 1998 | 29 February 2000 | 1 year, 80 days | ||||
| 16 |  |
Ramakanta Mishra (born 1944) MLA from Ranpur |
21 March 2000 | 6 February 2004 | 3 years, 322 days | Naveen Patnaik | 12th (2000) |
Indian National Congress | |
| 17 |  |
Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (1927–2015) MLA from Begunia |
4 June 2004 | 24 January 2009 | 4 years, 234 days | 13th (2004) | |||
| 18 |  |
Ramachandra Ulaka (1935–2011) MLA from Rayagada |
24 January 2009 | 19 May 2009 | 115 days | ||||
| 19 |  |
Bhupinder Singh (born 1951) MLA from Narla |
27 May 2009 | 10 March 2014 | 4 years, 287 days | 14th (2009) | |||
| 20 |  |
Narasingha Mishra (born 1940) MLA from Bolangir |
11 June 2014 | 29 May 2019 | 4 years, 352 days | 15th (2014) | |||
| 21 |  |
Pradipta Kumar Naik (born 1966) MLA from Bhawanipatna |
25 June 2019 | 30 July 2022 | 3 years, 35 days | 16th (2019) |
Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 22 |  |
Jayanarayan Mishra (born 1963) MLA from Sambalpur |
30 July 2022 | 4 June 2024 | 1 year, 310 days | ||||
| 23 | |
Naveen Patnaik (born 1946) MLA from Hinjili |
19 June 2024 | Incumbent | 2 years, 114 days | Mohan Charan Majhi | 17th (2024) |
Biju Janata Dal | |
Statistics
Time held in office by party
- Indian National Congress (34.0%)
- All India Ganatantra Parishad (18.6%)
- Janata Party (7.29%)
- Bharatiya Janata Party (7.15%)
- Biju Janata Dal (5.71%)
- Janata Dal (3.95%)
- Bharatiya Lok Dal (3.25%)
- Indian National Congress (I) (2.22%)
- Janata Party (Secular) (1.35%)
- Utkal Congress (1.14%)
- Swatantra Party (0.95%)
- Indian National Congress (R) (0.93%)
- Orissa Janata Party (0.65%)
- No Official Opposition (12.8%)
| # | Leader of Opposition | Party | Term of office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longest term | Total duration | ||||
| 1 | Biju Patnaik | BLD/JP/JD/UC | 4 years, 346 days | 9 years, 52 days | |
| 2 | Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo | AIGP/SWP | 5 years, 253 days | 8 years, 179 days | |
| 3 | Shraddhakar Supakar | AIGP | 5 years, 16 days | 5 years, 16 days | |
| 4 | Narasingha Mishra | INC | 4 years, 352 days | 4 years, 352 days | |
| 5 | Bhupinder Singh | INC | 4 years, 287 days | 4 years, 287 days | |
| 6 | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | INC | 4 years, 234 days | 4 years, 234 days | |
| 7 | Ramakanta Mishra | INC | 3 years, 322 days | 3 years, 322 days | |
| 8 | Sadashiva Tripathy | INC | 3 years, 299 days | 3 years, 299 days | |
| 9 | Pradipta Kumar Naik | BJP | 3 years, 35 days | 3 years, 35 days | |
| 10 | Naveen Patnaik | BJD | 1 years, 350 days | 1 years, 350 days | |
| 11 | Jayanarayan Mishra | BJP | 1 years, 309 days | 1 years, 309 days | |
| 12 | Ashok Kumar Das | JD | 1 year, 209 days | 1 year, 209 days | |
| 13 | Brundaban Nayak | INC(I) | 1 year, 195 days | 1 year, 195 days | |
| 14 | Satchidananda Dalal | BJD | 1 years, 80 days | 1 years, 80 days | |
| 15 | Binayak Acharya | INC | 1 year, 41 days | 1 year, 41 days | |
| 16 | Sarat Kumar Deb | JP(S) | 342 days | 342 days | |
| 17 | Ram Krushna Patnaik | BJD | 267 days | 267 days | |
| 18 | Chintamani Panigrahi | INC(R) | 236 days | 236 days | |
| 19 | Prahlad Mallik | OJP | 163 days | 163 days | |
| 20 | Ramachandra Ulaka | INC | 115 days | 115 days | |
| 21 | Ram Prasad Mishra | JP | 30 days | 30 days | |
| 22 | Prafulla Samal | BJD | 15 days | 15 days | |
| 23 | Ananta Narayan Singh Deo | JP | 4 days | 4 days | |
| — | No Official Opposition[c] | — | 8 years, 306 days | ||