13th Odisha Legislative Assembly

13th Odisha Legislative Assembly
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Overview
Meeting place	Odisha Vidhan Saudha, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India
Term	15 May 2004 – 19 May 2009
Election	2004
Government	National Democratic Alliance Biju Janata Dal Bharatiya Janata Party
Opposition	Indian National Congress
Website	odishaassembly.nic.in
Odisha Legislative Assembly
Members	147
Governor	M. M. Rajendran Rameshwar Thakur Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
Speaker	Maheswar Mohanty, BJD Prahlad Dora, BJP Kishore Kumar Mohanty, BJD
Deputy Speaker	Prahlad Dora, BJP
Leader of the House (Chief Minister)	Naveen Patnaik, BJD
Leader of Opposition	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, INC Ramachandra Ulaka, INC
Party control	National Democratic Alliance (93/147)
16 Sessions with 264 Sittings

The Thirteenth Odisha Vidhan Sabha was convened after 2004 Odisha Legislative Assembly election. National Democratic Alliance led by Naveen Patnaik formed government again.^[1][2]

House Composition

Time Period	Strength	BJD	INC	BJP	JMM	OGP	CPI	CPM	IND
Assembly Begins	147	61	38	32	4	2	1	1	8
Assembly Disolves	147	61	38	32	4	2	1	1	8

Office Bearers

Post	Portrait	Name	Tenure		Party
Governor		M. M. Rajendran	Assembly Begins	17 November 2004	N/A
		Rameshwar Thakur	18 November 2004	21 August 2007
		Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare	21 August 2007	Assembly Dissolves
Speaker		Maheswar Mohanty MLA from Puri	21 May 2004	31 March 2008		Biju Janata Dal
		Prahlad Dora MLA from Chitrakonda	31 March 2008	19 August 2008		Bharatiya Janata Party
		Kishore Kumar Mohanty MLA from Jharsuguda	19 August 2008	25 May 2009		Biju Janata Dal
Deputy Speaker		Prahlad Dora MLA from Chitrakonda	3 July 2004	19 May 2009		Bharatiya Janata Party
Leader of the House (Chief Minister) Leader of BJD Legislature Party		Naveen Patnaik MLA from Hinjili	16 May 2004	20 May 2009		Biju Janata Dal
Leader of Opposition Leader of Congress Legislature Party		Janaki Ballabh Patnaik MLA from Begunia	4 June 2004	24 January 2009		Indian National Congress
		Ramachandra Ulaka MLA from Rayagada	24 January 2009	19 May 2009
Pro tem Speaker		Habibulla Khan MLA from Nowrangpur	18 May 2004	20 May 2004		Indian National Congress

Council of Ministers

This section is transcluded from Second Naveen Patnaik ministry. (edit | history)

Source

Portfolio	Portrait	Name	Tenure		Party
Chief Minister Home General Administration Forest & Environment Other departments not allocated to any Minister.		Naveen Patnaik MLA from Hinjili	16 May 2004	20 May 2009		BJD
Planning & Coordination			16 May 2004	16 May 2006		BJD
Water Resources			23 March 2006	20 May 2009		BJD
Information & Public Relations Sports & Youth Services			5 May 2008			BJD
Revenue Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare			10 December 2008			BJD
Industries Rural Development Law Public Grievances & Pension Administration Higher Education Urban Development Public Enterprises Fisheries & Animal Resources Development Textiles & Handlooms Co-operation Commerce and Transport Labour & Employment			9 March 2009			BJD
Cabinet Minister
Agriculture		Surendra Nath Naik MLA from Kakatpur	16 May 2004	20 May 2009		BJD
Women & Child Development		Pramila Mallik MLA from Binjharpur	16 May 2004	20 May 2009		BJD
Finance		Prafulla Chandra Ghadei MLA from Sukinda	16 May 2004	20 May 2009		BJD
Housing Works		Ananga Udaya Singh Deo MLA from Bolangir	16 May 2004	20 May 2009		BJD
Health & Family Welfare		Bijayshree Routray MLA from Basudevpur	16 May 2004	16 May 2006		BJD
Energy Information Technology		Surjya Narayan Patro MLA from Mohana	16 May 2004	20 May 2009		BJD
Tourism				16 May 2006		BJD
		Debiprasad Mishra MLA from Baramba	5 February 2008	20 May 2009		BJD
Culture		Damodar Rout MLA from Ersama	16 May 2004	16 May 2006		BJD
		Surjya Narayan Patro MLA from Mohana	17 May 2006	20 May 2009		BJD
Panchayati Raj		Damodar Rout MLA from Ersama	16 May 2004	16 May 2006		BJD
		Raghunath Mohanty MLA from Basta	17 May 2006	20 May 2009		BJD
Steel & Mines		Padmanabha Behera MLA from Phulbani	16 May 2004	29 December 2007		BJD
Parliamentary Affairs				16 May 2006		BJD
		Raghunath Mohanty MLA from Basta	17 May 2006	20 May 2009		BJD
Planning & Coordination		Padmanabha Behera MLA from Phulbani	17 May 2006	4 February 2008		BJD
		Duryodhan Majhi MLA from Khariar	5 February 2008	20 May 2009		BJD
Science & Technology						BJD
Schedule Castes Development under Schedule Tribes & Schedule Castes Development Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare		Kalindi Behera MLA from Salipur	16 May 2004	16 May 2006		BJD
Excise						BJD
		Debiprasad Mishra MLA from Baramba	5 February 2008	20 May 2009		BJD
Schedule Tribes & Schedule Castes Development Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare		Chaitanya Prasad Majhi MLA from Bangriposi	17 May 2006	20 May 2009		BJD
School & Mass Education		Bishnu Charan Das MLA from Jagatsinghpur	17 May 2006	12 August 2007[3]		BJD
Industries Rural Development Law		Biswabhusan Harichandan MLA from Bhubaneswar	16 May 2004	9 March 2009		BJP
Public Grievances & Pension Administration Higher Education		Samir Dey MLA from Cuttack City	16 May 2004	9 March 2009		BJP
Urban Development Public Enterprises		Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo MLA from Patnagarh	16 May 2004	9 March 2009		BJP
Fisheries & Animal Resources Development Textiles & Handlooms		Golak Bihari Naik MLA from Khunta	16 May 2004	9 March 2009		BJP
Revenue Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare		Manmohan Samal MLA from Dhamnagar	16 May 2004	10 December 2008[4]		BJP
Ministers of State with Independent Charges
Information & Public Relations Sports & Youth Services		Debasis Nayak MLA from Bari-Derabisi	16 May 2004	4 May 2008[5]		BJD
Schedule Tribes Development under Schedule Tribes & Schedule Castes Development		Balabhadra Majhi MLA from Narla	16 May 2004	16 May 2006		BJD
Water Resources		Rabi Narayan Nanda MLA from Jeypore	16 May 2004	23 March 2006[6]		BJD
Science & Technology						BJD
		Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo MLA from Birmaharajpur	17 May 2006	4 February 2008		BJD
School & Mass Education		Nagendra Kumar Pradhan MLA from Athmallik	16 May 2004	16 May 2006		BJD
		Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo MLA from Birmaharajpur	13 August 2007	20 May 2009		BJD
Health & Family Welfare		Duryodhan Majhi MLA from Khariar	17 May 2006	4 February 2008		BJD
		Sanatan Bisi MLA from Rairakhol	5 February 2008	20 May 2009		BJD
Excise Tourism		Debiprasad Mishra MLA from Baramba	17 May 2006	4 February 2008		BJD
Steel & Mines		Pradip Kumar Amat MLA from Boudh	5 February 2008	20 May 2009		BJD
Co-operation		Surama Padhy MLA from Ranpur	16 May 2004	9 March 2009		BJP
Commerce and Transport		Jayanarayan Mishra MLA from Sambalpur	16 May 2004	9 March 2009		BJP
Labour & Employment			29 April 2006	4 February 2008		BJP
		Pradipta Kumar Naik MLA from Bhawanipatna	16 May 2004	29 April 2006[7]		BJP
			5 February 2008	9 March 2009		BJP

Members of Legislative Assembly

District	AC. No.	Constituency	Member	Party		Remarks
Mayurbhanj	1	Karanjia (ST)	Ajit Hembram		Biju Janata Dal
	2	Jashipur (ST)	Shambhu Nath Naik		Independent
	3	Bahalda (ST)	Prahlad Purty		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
	4	Rairangpur (ST)	Droupadi Murmu		Bharatiya Janata Party
	5	Bangriposi (ST)	Chaitanya Prasad Majhi		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	6	Kuliana (ST)	Sananda Marndi		Bharatiya Janata Party
	7	Baripada	Bimal Lochan Das		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
	8	Baisinga (ST)	Pramila Giri		Bharatiya Janata Party
	9	Khunta (ST)	Golak Bihari Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	10	Udala (ST)	Bhaskar Madhei		Bharatiya Janata Party
Balasore	11	Bhograi	Ananta Das		Biju Janata Dal
	12	Jaleswar	Aswini Kumar Patra		Bharatiya Janata Party
	13	Basta	Raghunath Mohanty		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	14	Balasore	Arun Dey		Odisha Gana Parishad
	15	Soro	Kartik Mohapatra		Indian National Congress
	16	Simulia	Padma Lochan Panda		Indian National Congress
	17	Nilgiri	Pratap Chandra Sarangi		Bharatiya Janata Party
Bhadrak	18	Bhandaripokhari (SC)	Ananta Prasad Sethi		Indian National Congress
	19	Bhadrak	Naren Pallai		Indian National Congress
	20	Dhamnagar	Manmohan Samal		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	21	Chandbali (SC)	Netrananda Mallick		Indian National Congress
	22	Basudevpur	Bijayshree Routray		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
Jajpur	23	Sukinda	Prafulla Chandra Ghadai		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	24	Korai	Sanchita Mohanty		Bharatiya Janata Party
	25	Jajpur (SC)	Parameswar Sethi		Biju Janata Dal
	26	Dharamsala	Kalpataru Das		Biju Janata Dal
	27	Barchana	Sitakanta Mohapatra		Indian National Congress
	28	Bari-Derabisi	Debasis Nayak		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
	29	Binjharpur (SC)	Pramila Mallik		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
Kendrapara	30	Aul	Pratap Keshari Deb		Biju Janata Dal
	31	Patamundai (SC)	Kishor Chandra Tarai		Biju Janata Dal
	32	Rajnagar	Nalinikanta Mohanty		Indian National Congress
	33	Kendrapara	Utkal Keshari Parida		Odisha Gana Parishad
	34	Patkura	Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak		Biju Janata Dal
Jagatsinghpur	35	Tirtol	Chiranjib Biswal		Indian National Congress
	36	Ersama	Damodar Rout		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	37	Balikuda	Umesh Chandra Swain		Indian National Congress
	38	Jagatsinghpur (SC)	Bishnu Charan Das		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
Cuttack	39	Kissannagar	Pratap Jena		Biju Janata Dal
	40	Mahanga	Bikram Keshari Barma		Biju Janata Dal
	41	Salepur (SC)	Kalindi Behera		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	42	Gobindpur	Rabindra Kumar Mallick		Indian National Congress
	43	Cuttack Sadar	Pravata Ranjan Biswal		Independent
	44	Cuttack City	Samir Dey		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	45	Choudwar	Dharmananda Behera		Biju Janata Dal
	46	Banki	Debasis Pattnaik		Indian National Congress
	47	Athgarh	Ranendra Pratap Swain		Biju Janata Dal
	48	Baramba	Debiprasad Mishra		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
Khurda	49	Balipatna (SC)	Shashi Bhusan Behera		Biju Janata Dal
	50	Bhubaneswar	Biswabhusan Harichandan		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	51	Jatni	Sarat Patkaray		Biju Janata Dal
Puri	52	Pipli	Pradeep Maharathy		Biju Janata Dal
	53	Nimapara (SC)	Baidhar Mallick		Bharatiya Janata Party
	54	Kakatpur	Surendra Nath Naik		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	55	Satyabadi	Ramaranjan Baliarsingh		Independent
	56	Puri	Maheswar Mohanty		Biju Janata Dal	Speaker
	57	Brahmagiri	Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra		Indian National Congress
Khurda	58	Chilka	Bibhuti Bhusan Harichandan		Bharatiya Janata Party
	59	Khurda	Jyotirindra Nath Mitra		Biju Janata Dal
	60	Begunia	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik		Indian National Congress	Leader of Opposition
Nayagarh	61	Ranpur	Surama Padhy		Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State (I/C)
	62	Nayagarh	Arun Kumar Sahoo		Biju Janata Dal
	63	Khandapara	Bijayalaxmi Pattnaik		Independent
	64	Daspalla	Rudra Madhab Ray		Independent
Ganjam	65	Jaganathprasad (SC)	Madhaba Nanda Behera		Biju Janata Dal
	66	Bhanjanagar	Bikram Keshari Arukha		Biju Janata Dal	Govt. Chief Whip
	67	Suruda	Kishore Chandra Singh Deo		Bharatiya Janata Party
	68	Aska	Saroj Kumar Padhi		Independent
	69	Kabisuryanagar	Ladu Kishore Swain		Biju Janata Dal
	70	Kodala	Niranjan Pradhan		Biju Janata Dal
	71	Khallikote	V. Sugnana Kumari Deo		Biju Janata Dal
	72	Chatrapur	Nagireddy Narayan Reddy		Communist Party of India
	73	Hinjili	Naveen Patnaik		Biju Janata Dal	Chief Minister
	74	Gopalpur (SC)	Trinath Behera		Indian National Congress
	75	Berhampur	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik		Biju Janata Dal
	76	Chikiti	Usha Devi		Biju Janata Dal
Gajapati	77	Mohana	Surjya Narayan Patro		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	78	Ramagiri (ST)	Bharat Paik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	79	Parlakhemundi	Trinath Sahu		Indian National Congress
Rayagada	80	Gunupur (ST)	Hemabati Gamang		Indian National Congress
	81	Bissam-cuttack (ST)	Dambarudhar Ulaka		Indian National Congress
	82	Rayagada (ST)	Ulaka Rama Chandra		Indian National Congress	Leader of Opposition
Koraput	83	Lakshmipur (ST)	Anantaram Majhi		Indian National Congress	Died on 25 November 2007.
			Purna Chandra Majhi		Indian National Congress	Won in 2008 Bypoll.[8]
	84	Pottangi (ST)	Jayaram Pangi		Biju Janata Dal
	85	Koraput	Tara Prasad Bahinipati		Indian National Congress
Malkangiri	86	Malkangiri (SC)	Nimai Chandra Sarkar		Indian National Congress
	87	Chitrakonda (ST)	Prahlad Dora		Bharatiya Janata Party	Deputy Speaker
Koraput	88	Kotpad (ST)	Basudev Majhi		Indian National Congress
	89	Jeypore	Rabi Narayan Nanda		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
Nowrangpur	90	Nowrangpur	Habibulla Khan		Indian National Congress
	91	Kodinga (ST)	Sadan Nayak		Indian National Congress
	92	Dabugam (ST)	Ramesh Chandra Majhi		Biju Janata Dal
	93	Umarkote (ST)	Dharmu Gond		Bharatiya Janata Party
Nawapara	94	Nawapara	Rajendra Dholakia		Independent
	95	Khariar	Duryodhan Majhi		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
Kalahandi	96	Dharamgarh (SC)	Bira Sipka		Biju Janata Dal
	97	Koksara	Pushpendra Singh Deo		Biju Janata Dal
	98	Junagarh	Himansu Sekhar Meher		Bharatiya Janata Party
	99	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Pradipta Kumar Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State (I/C)
	100	Narla (ST)	Balabhadra Majhi		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
	101	Kesinga	Dhaneswar Majhi		Bharatiya Janata Party
Kandhamal	102	Balliguda (ST)	Karendra Majhi		Bharatiya Janata Party
	103	Udayagiri (ST)	Ajayanti Pradhan		Indian National Congress
	104	Phulbani (SC)	Padmanabha Behera		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
Boudh	105	Boudh	Pradip Kumar Amat		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
Balangir	106	Titilagarh (SC)	Jogendra Behera		Biju Janata Dal
	107	Kantabanji	Haji Md. Ayub Khan		Independent
	108	Patnagarh	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	109	Saintala	Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo		Biju Janata Dal
	110	Loisingha	Narasingha Mishra		Indian National Congress
	111	Bolangir	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
Subarnapur	112	Sonepur (SC)	Binod Patra		Indian National Congress
	113	Binka	Niranjan Pujari		Biju Janata Dal
	114	Birmaharajpur	Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
Angul	115	Athmallik	Nagendra Kumar Pradhan		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
	116	Angul	Rajanikant Singh		Biju Janata Dal
Dhenkanal	117	Hindol (SC)	Anjali Behera		Biju Janata Dal
	118	Dhenkanal	Sudhir Kumar Samal		Indian National Congress
	119	Gondia	Saroj Kumar Samal		Biju Janata Dal
Angul	120	Kamakhyanagar	Prafulla Kumar Mallik		Biju Janata Dal
	121	Pallahara	Nrusingha Charan Sahu		Indian National Congress
	122	Talcher (SC)	Mahesh Sahoo		Bharatiya Janata Party
Bargarh	123	Padampur	Satya Bhusan Sahu		Indian National Congress	Cong. Chief Whip
	124	Melchhamunda	Mohammad Rafique		Bharatiya Janata Party
	125	Bijepur	Subal Sahu		Indian National Congress
	126	Bhatli (SC)	Bimbadhar Kuanr		Bharatiya Janata Party
	127	Bargarh	Ananda Acharya		Biju Janata Dal
Sambalpur	128	Sambalpur	Jayanarayan Mishra		Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State (I/C)
Jharsuguda	129	Brajarajnagar	Anup Kumar Sai		Indian National Congress
	130	Jharsuguda	Kishore Kumar Mohanty		Biju Janata Dal	Speaker
	131	Laikera (ST)	Brundaban Majhi		Bharatiya Janata Party
Sambalpur	132	Kuchinda (ST)	Rabi Narayan Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	133	Rairakhol (SC)	Sanatan Bisi		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
Deogarh	134	Deogarh	Nitesh Ganga Deb		Indian National Congress
Sundergarh	135	Sundargarh	Shankarsan Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party	Deputy Govt. Chief Whip, Died on 11 January 2005.[9]
			Susama Patel		Bharatiya Janata Party	Won in 2005 Bypoll.[10]
	136	Talsara (ST)	Gajadhar Majhi		Indian National Congress	Died on 20 May 2006.
			Prafulla Majhi		Indian National Congress	Won in 2006 Bypoll.[11]
	137	Rajgangpur (ST)	Gregory Minz		Indian National Congress
	138	Biramitrapur (ST)	Nihar Surin		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
	139	Rourkela	Sarada Prasad Nayak		Biju Janata Dal
	140	Raghunathpali (ST)	Halu Mundary		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
	141	Bonai (ST)	Laxman Munda		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Keonjhar	142	Champua (ST)	Dhanurjaya Sidu		Indian National Congress
	143	Patna	Gourahari Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	144	Keonjhar (ST)	Mohan Charan Majhi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Deputy Govt. Chief Whip
	145	Telkoi (ST)	Niladri Nayak		Biju Janata Dal
	146	Ramchandrapur	Niranjan Patnaik		Indian National Congress
	147	Anandapur (SC)	Jayadev Jena		Indian National Congress

Bypolls

Year	Constituency	Reason for by-poll	Winning candidate	Party
April 2005	Sundargarh	Death of Shankarsan Naik[9]	Sushma Patel[10]		Bharatiya Janata Party
October 2006	Talsara (ST)	Death of Gajadhar Majhi	Prafulla Majhi[11]		Indian National Congress
April 2008	Lakshmipur (ST)	Death of Anantaram Majhi	Purna Chandra Majhi[8]		Indian National Congress

References

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2. "Naveen sworn in as Orissa CM". The Times of India. 2004-05-16. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2025-09-09.
3. "Scam hits minister son". Telegraph India.
4. "Orissa minister resigns over sex scandal". Hindustan Times.
5. "Debasis Nayak was out of Naveen's charmed circle long before quitting BJD". Hindustan Times.
6. "Orissa minister quits over criminal links". Hindustan Times.
7. "A hattrick of resignations". Telegraph India.
8. "Congress wins Orissa assembly by-poll". Hindustan Times. 2008-04-16. Retrieved 2025-09-09.
9. Rameshwar Thakur (28 February 2005). "Address of Shri Rameshwar Thakur, Governor of Orissa" (PDF). Retrieved 12 February 2022. I would request you to join me in paying homage to Shankarsan Naik, sitting member of the House and Government Deputy Chief Whip and Sribatschha Naik, former member who are no more with us.
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11. "Bye election of Talsara". Election Commission of India. 2 November 2006.