12th Orissa Legislative Assembly

12th Orissa Legislative Assembly
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Overview
Meeting place	Odisha Vidhan Saudha, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, India
Term	22 March 2000 – 6 February 2004
Election	2000
Government	National Democratic Alliance Biju Janata Dal Bharatiya Janata Party
Opposition	Indian National Congress
Website	odishaassembly.nic.in
Orissa Legislative Assembly
Members	147
Governor	M. M. Rajendran
Speaker	Sarat Kumar Kar, BJD
Deputy Speaker	Rama Chandra Panda, BJP
Leader of the House (Chief Minister)	Naveen Patnaik, BJD
Leader of Opposition	Ramakanta Mishra, INC
Party control	National Democratic Alliance (107/147)
13 Sessions with 214 Sittings

The Twelfth Orissa Legislative Assembly was convened after 2000 Orissa Legislative Assembly election. National Democratic Alliance led by Naveen Patnaik formed government for first time.^[1][2]

House Composition

Time Period	Strength	BJD	BJP	INC	JMM	CPI	CPM	JD(S)	AITC	IND
Assembly Begins	147	68	38	26	3	1	1	1	1	8
Assembly Disolves	147	69	38	25	2	1	1	1	0	10

Office Bearers

Post	Portrait	Name	Tenure		Party
Governor		M. M. Rajendran	Assembly Begins	Assembly Dissolves	N/A
Speaker		Sarat Kumar Kar MLA from Mahanga	10 March 2000	21 May 2004		Biju Janata Dal
Deputy Speaker		Rama Chandra Panda MLA from Chhatrapur	27 March 2000	6 February 2004		Bharatiya Janata Party
Leader of the House (Chief Minister) Leader of BJD Legislature Party		Naveen Patnaik MLA from Hinjili	5 March 2000	15 May 2004		Biju Janata Dal
Leader of Opposition Leader of Congress Legislature Party		Ramakanta Mishra MLA from Ranpur	21 March 2000	6 February 2004		Indian National Congress
Pro tem Speaker		Habibulla Khan MLA from Nowrangpur	6 March 2000	8 March 2000		Indian National Congress

Council of Ministers

Source

Portfolio	Portrait	Name	Tenure		Party
Chief Minister Home General Administration Agriculture Other departments not allocated to any Minister.		Naveen Patnaik MLA from Hinjili	5 March 2000	15 May 2004		BJD
Water Resources Information Technology			5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
Works Housing Parliamentary Affairs Health & Family Welfare Women & Child Development Rural Development Higher Education			9 July 2001	6 August 2002		BJD
School & Mass Education			3 June 2002	6 August 2002		BJD
Finance Planning & Coordination			6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Cabinet Minister
Excise		Ananda Acharya MLA from Bargarh	5 March 2000	15 May 2004		BJD
Housing Parliamentary Affairs		Nalinikanta Mohanty MLA from Rajanagar	5 March 2000	9 July 2001		BJD
Works						BJD
		Kalindi Behera MLA from Salepur	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Finance Planning & Coordination		Ram Krushna Patnaik MLA from Kodala	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
Health & Family Welfare Women & Child Development		Kamala Das MLA from Bhograi	5 March 2000	9 July 2001		BJD
		Prafulla Chandra Ghadei MLA from Sukinda	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Forest Environment		Adwait Prasad Singh MLA from Angul	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
Panchayati Raj		Surendra Nath Naik MLA from Kakatpur	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
		Damodar Rout MLA from Ersama	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Information & Public Relations Culture						BJD
School & Mass Education		Bhagabat Behera MLA from Nayagarh	5 March 2000	3 June 2002		BJD
		Surendra Nath Naik MLA from Kakatpur	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Steel & Mines		Ananga Udaya Singh Deo MLA from Bolangir	5 March 2000	15 May 2004		BJD
Information Technology Tourism			6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Energy			5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
		Surjya Narayan Patro MLA from Mohana	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Science & Technology Environment						BJD
Schedule Tribes & Schedule Castes Development Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare		Mangala Kisan MLA from Rajgangpur	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
		Kalindi Behera MLA from Salipur	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Water Resources		Mangala Kisan MLA from Rajgangpur	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Revenue Law		Biswabhusan Harichandan MLA from Bhubaneswar	5 March 2000	15 May 2004		BJP
Fisheries & Animal Resources Development			5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJP
Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare		Bed Prakash Agarwal MLA from Kendrapara	5 March 2000	15 May 2004		BJP
Public Enterprises			5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJP
Rural Development			6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJP
Public Grievances & Pension Administration Urban Development		Samir Dey MLA from Cuttack City	5 March 2000	15 May 2004		BJP
Industries		Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo MLA from Patnagarh	5 March 2000	15 May 2004		BJP
Public Enterprises			6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJP
Co-operation		Arabinda Dhali MLA from Malkangiri	5 March 2000	15 May 2004		BJP
Textiles & Handlooms			5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJP
Commerce and Transport			6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJP
Minister of State with Independent Charges
Sports & Youth Services		Ranendra Pratap Swain MLA from Athagarh	5 March 2000	15 May 2004		BJD
Science & Technology			5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
Housing			6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Tourism Culture		Bijayshree Routray MLA from Basudevpur	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
Forest			6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Information & Public Relations		Duryodhan Majhi MLA from Khariar	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
Parliamentary Affairs		Panchanan Kanungo MLA from Gobindpur	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Commerce and Transport		Droupadi Murmu MLA from Rairangpur	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJP
Fisheries & Animal Resources Development			6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJP
Labour & Employment		Bimbadhar Kuanr MLA from Bhatli	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJP
		Himansu Sekhar Meher MLA from Junagarh	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJP
Textiles & Handlooms						BJP
Rural Development		Prashanta Nanda MLA from Begunia	5 March 2000	9 July 2001		BJP
Higher Education						BJP
		Bimbadhar Kuanr MLA from Bhatli	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJP
Minister of State
Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare		Rabi Narayan Nanda MLA from Jeypore	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
Water Resources			6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Health & Family Welfare		Debi Prasad Mishra MLA from Baramba	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
Agriculture		Amar Prasad Satpathy MLA from Barchana	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJD
Finance		Panchanan Kanungo MLA from Gobindpur	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Women & Child Development		Bishnu Priya Behera MLA from Phulbani	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Schedule Tribes & Schedule Castes Development Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare		Balabhadra Majhi MLA from Narla	6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJD
Planning & Coordination		Golak Bihari Naik MLA from Khunta	5 March 2000	6 August 2002		BJP
Public Grievances & Pension Administration			6 August 2002	15 May 2004		BJP

Members of Legislative Assembly

Source

District	AC. No.	Constituency	Member	Party		Remarks
Mayurbhanj	1	Karanjia (ST)	Padma Charan Haiburu		Independent
	2	Jashipur (ST)	Bhanu Charan Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	3	Bahalda (ST)	Laxman Soren		Bharatiya Janata Party
	4	Rairangpur (ST)	Droupadi Murmu		Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State (I/C)
	5	Bangriposi (ST)	Purusottama Naik		Independent
	6	Kuliana (ST)	Sudam Marndi		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
	7	Baripada	Kishore Dash		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
	8	Baisinga (ST)	Kandra Soren		Bharatiya Janata Party
	9	Khunta (ST)	Golaka Bihari Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State
	10	Udala (ST)	Bhaskara Madhei		Bharatiya Janata Party
Balasore	11	Bhograi	Kamala Das		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	12	Jaleswar	Jayanarayan Mohanty		Indian National Congress
	13	Basta	Raghunath Mohanty		Biju Janata Dal
	14	Balasore	Jiban Pradip Dash		Bharatiya Janata Party
	15	Soro	Kartik Mohapatra		Indian National Congress
	16	Simulia	Parsuram Panigrahi		Biju Janata Dal
	17	Nilgiri	Pradipta Panda		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Bhadrak	18	Bhandaripokhari (SC)	Ratha Das		Biju Janata Dal
	19	Bhadrak	Biren Palei		Indian National Congress	Died on 2 March 2001[3]
			Prafulla Samal		Biju Janata Dal	Won in May 2002 Bypoll.[4]
	20	Dhamnagar	Manas Ranjan Mallik		Independent
	21	Chandbali (SC)	Bishnu Charan Sethi		Bharatiya Janata Party
	22	Basudevpur	Bijayshree Routray		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
Jajpur	23	Sukinda	Prafulla Chandra Ghadai		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	24	Korai	Ashok Kumar Das		Janata Dal (Secular)
	25	Jajpur (SC)	Surjyamani Jena		Biju Janata Dal
	26	Dharamsala	Kalpataru Das		Biju Janata Dal
	27	Barchana	Amar Prasad Satpathy		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State
	28	Bari-Derabisi	Debasis Nayak		Biju Janata Dal
	29	Binjharpur (SC)	Pramila Mallik		Biju Janata Dal
Kendrapara	30	Aul	Pratap Keshari Deb		Biju Janata Dal
	31	Patamundai (SC)	Tapash Kumar Das		Biju Janata Dal
	32	Rajnagar	Nalini Kanta Mohanty		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister, Expelled from Party on 19 July 2001.
					Independent	Since 30 July 2001.
	33	Kendrapara	Bed Prakash Agarwal		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	34	Patkura	Trilochan Behera		All India Trinamool Congress	Merged with Biju Janata Dal party on 21 April 2001.
					Biju Janata Dal
Jagatsinghpur	35	Tirtol	Debashish Samantaray		Biju Janata Dal
	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
Cuttack	39	Kissannagar	Pratap Jena		Biju Janata Dal
	40	Mahanga	Sarat Kumar Kar		Biju Janata Dal	Speaker
	41	Salepur (SC)	Kalindi Behera		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	42	Gobindpur	Panchanan Kanungo		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
	43	Cuttack Sadar	Nibedita Pradhan		Bharatiya Janata Party
	44	Cuttack City	Samir Dey		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	45	Choudwar	Bidhubhusan Praharaj		Independent
	46	Banki	Pravat Tripathy		Biju Janata Dal
	47	Athgarh	Ranendra Pratap Swain		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
	48	Baramba	Debi Prasad Mishra		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State
Khurda	49	Balipatna (SC)	Raghaba Chandra Sethi		Biju Janata Dal
	50	Bhubaneswar	Biswabhusan Harichandan		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	51	Jatni	Suresh Kumar Routray		Indian National Congress
Puri	52	Pipli	Pradeep Maharathy		Biju Janata Dal	Govt. Chief Whip
	53	Nimapara (SC)	Baidhar Malik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	54	Kakatpur	Surendra Nath Naik		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	55	Satyabadi	Prasad Kumar Harichandan		Indian National Congress
	56	Puri	Maheswar Mohanty		Biju Janata Dal
	57	Brahmagiri	Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra		Indian National Congress
Khurda	58	Chilka	Bibhuti Bhusan Harichandan		Bharatiya Janata Party
	59	Khurda	Jyotirindra Nath Mitra		Independent
	60	Begunia	Prashanta Nanda		Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State (I/C)
Nayagarh	61	Ranpur	Ramakanta Mishra		Indian National Congress	Leader of Oppposition
	62	Nayagarh	Bhagabat Behera		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister, Died on 3 June 2002.
			Mandakini Behera		Biju Janata Dal	Won in July 2002 Bypoll.[5]
	63	Khandapara	Bijayalaxmi Pattnaik		Biju Janata Dal
	64	Daspalla	Hariharan Karan		Indian National Congress
Ganjam	65	Jaganathprasad (SC)	Simanchala Behera		Indian National Congress
	66	Bhanjanagar	Bikram Keshari Arukha		Biju Janata Dal
	67	Suruda	Usha Rani Panda		Indian National Congress
	68	Aska	Debaraj Mohanty		Biju Janata Dal
	69	Kavisuryanagar	Nityananda Pradhan		Communist Party of India
	70	Kodala	Ram Krushna Patnaik		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister, Expelled from Party on 21 September 2002.
					Independent	Since 10 October 2002.
	71	Khallikote	V. Sugnana Kumari Deo		Biju Janata Dal
	72	Chatrapur	Rama Chandra Panda		Bharatiya Janata Party	Deputy Speaker
	73	Hinjili	Naveen Patnaik		Biju Janata Dal	Chief Minister
	74	Gopalpur (SC)	Rama Chandra Sethy		Biju Janata Dal
	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)	Haladhar Karji		Indian National Congress
	79	Parlakhemundi	Trinath Sahu		Indian National Congress
Rayagada	80	Gunupur (ST)	Rammurthy Gamango		Bharatiya Janata Party
	81	Bissam-cuttack (ST)	Sarangadhar Kadraka		Biju Janata Dal
	82	Rayagada (ST)	Lal Bihari Himirika		Biju Janata Dal
Koraput	83	Lakshmipur (ST)	Bibhisana Majhi		Biju Janata Dal
	84	Pottangi (ST)	Jayaram Pangi		Biju Janata Dal
	85	Koraput	Tara Prasad Bahinipati		Indian National Congress
Malkangiri	86	Malkangiri (SC)	Arabinda Dhali		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	87	Chitrakonda (ST)	Mamta Madhi		Indian National Congress
Koraput	88	Kotpad (ST)	Basudev Majhi		Indian National Congress
	89	Jeypore	Rabi Narayan Nanda		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State
Nowrangpur	90	Nowrangpur	Habibulla Khan		Indian National Congress
	91	Kodinga (ST)	Sadan Nayak		Indian National Congress
	92	Dabugam (ST)	Bhujabal Majhi		Indian National Congress
	93	Umarkote (ST)	Parama Pujari		Indian National Congress
Nawapara	94	Nawapara	Basanta Kumar Panda		Bharatiya Janata Party
	95	Khariar	Duryodhan Majhi		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State (I/C)
Kalahandi	96	Dharamgarh (SC)	Bira Sipka		Biju Janata Dal
	97	Koksara	Rosni Singh Deo		Biju Janata Dal
	98	Junagarh	Himansu Sekhar Meher		Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State (I/C)
	99	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Pradipta Kumar Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	100	Narla (ST)	Balabhadra Majhi		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State
	101	Kesinga	Dhaneswar Majhi		Bharatiya Janata Party
Kandhamal	102	Balliguda (ST)	Surendra Kanhar		Bharatiya Janata Party
	103	Udayagiri (ST)	Saluga Pradhan		Biju Janata Dal
	104	Phulbani (SC)	Bishnu Priya Behera		Biju Janata Dal	Minister of State
Boudh	105	Boudh	Pradip Kumar Amat		Independent
Balangir	106	Titilagarh (SC)	Jogendra Behera		Biju Janata Dal
	107	Kantabanji	Santosh Singh Saluja		Indian National Congress
	108	Patnagarh	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo		Bharatiya Janata Party	Cabinet Minister
	109	Saintala	Surendra Singh Bhoi		Indian National Congress
	110	Loisingha	Balgopal Mishra		Bharatiya Janata Party
	111	Bolangir	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
Subarnapur	112	Sonepur (SC)	Kunduru Kushal		Biju Janata Dal
	113	Binka	Niranjan Pujari		Biju Janata Dal
	114	Birmaharajpur	Baishnaba Padhan		Biju Janata Dal	Died on 21 May 2003.
			Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo		Biju Janata Dal	Won in 2003 Bypoll.[6]
Angul	115	Athmallik	Nagendra Kumar Pradhan		Biju Janata Dal
	116	Angul	Adwait Prasad Singh		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
Dhenkanal	117	Hindol (SC)	Anjali Behera		Biju Janata Dal
	118	Dhenkanal	Krushna Chandra Patra		Bharatiya Janata Party
	119	Gondia	Nabin Nanda		Biju Janata Dal
Angul	120	Kamakhyanagar	Brahmananda Biswal		Biju Janata Dal
	121	Pallahara	Dharmendra Pradhan		Bharatiya Janata Party
	122	Talcher (SC)	Mahesh Sahoo		Bharatiya Janata Party
Bargarh	123	Padampur	Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha		Biju Janata Dal
	124	Melchhamunda	Prakash Chandra Debta		Indian National Congress
	125	Bijepur	Ashok Kumar Panigrahy		Biju Janata Dal
	126	Bhatli (SC)	Bimbadhar Kuanr		Bharatiya Janata Party	Minister of State (I/C)
	127	Bargarh	Ananda Acharya		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
Sambalpur	128	Sambalpur	Jayanarayan Mishra		Bharatiya Janata Party	Deputy Govt. Chief Whip
Jharsuguda	129	Brajarajnagar	Anup Kumar Sai		Indian National Congress
	130	Jharsuguda	Kishore Kumar Mohanty		Biju Janata Dal
	131	Laikera (ST)	Hemananda Biswal		Indian National Congress
Sambalpur	132	Kuchinda (ST)	Rabi Narayan Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	133	Rairakhol (SC)	Durjodhan Sohela		Biju Janata Dal	Died on 4 August 2001.
			Sanatan Bisi		Biju Janata Dal	Won in 2001 Bypoll.[7]
Deogarh	134	Deogarh	Subash Chandra Panigrahi		Bharatiya Janata Party
Sundergarh	135	Sundargarh	Shankarsan Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	136	Talsara (ST)	Gajadhar Majhi		Indian National Congress
	137	Rajgangpur (ST)	Mangala Kisan		Biju Janata Dal	Cabinet Minister
	138	Biramitrapur (ST)	George Tirkey		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Joined Biju Janata Dal on 21 August 2001.
					Biju Janata Dal
	139	Rourkela	Ajit Das		Biju Janata Dal
	140	Raghunathpali (ST)	Shankar Oram		Bharatiya Janata Party
	141	Bonai (ST)	Dayanidhi Kisan		Bharatiya Janata Party
Keonjhar	142	Champua (ST)	Saharai Oram		Independent
	143	Patna	Gourahari Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
	144	Keonjhar (ST)	Mohan Charan Majhi		Bharatiya Janata Party
	145	Telkoi (ST)	Niladri Nayak		Biju Janata Dal
	146	Ramchandrapur	Badri Narayan Patra		Independent
	147	Anandapur (SC)	Mayadhar Jena		Bharatiya Janata Party

Bypolls

Source

Year	Constituency	Reason for by-poll	Winning candidate	Party
September 2001	Rairakhol (SC)	Death of Durjodhan Sohela	Sanatan Bisi		Biju Janata Dal
May 2002	Bhadrak	Death of Biren Palei	Prafulla Samal		Biju Janata Dal
July 2002	Nayagarh	Death of Bhagabat Behera	Mandakini Behera		Biju Janata Dal
September 2003	Birmaharajpur	Death of Baishnaba Padhan	Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo		Biju Janata Dal

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