The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee is the unit of the Indian National Congress for the state of Odisha. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections in Odisha.

The head office of the organisation is the Congress Bhawan, situated at Master Canteen circle in Bhubaneswar.

Bhakta Charan Das was appointed president of the committee in 2025 following the 2024 general elections and currently serves as the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee(OPCC) President.

The house and floor leader of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee MLA cohort is Rama Chandra Kadam (Congress Legislative Party Leader) along with deputy Congress Legislative party leader Ashok Kumar Das elected from Pottangi and Basudevpur respectively into the Seventeenth Assembly of the legislature. Currently the state unit has only one elected Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha who is Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka having been elected twice consecutively.

The current Social Media Department of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee was formerly chaired by a elected tribal lawmaker Satyajeet Gomango. In its current makeup the chairperson of the social media department is educationist Dr Biswajit Mohanty who succeeded Gomango and is co-chaired by former Zilla Parishad candidate Santosh Pradhan, purviewed by a national co-coordinator of the AICC Department of Social Media & Digital Platforms & Assets Dr Sumit Dubey. List of district congress committee presidents

S. No Name District Term 1. Sunil Pradhan Angul 2025 2. Satya Shiba Das Balasore 2025 3. Hardeep Singh Bargarh 2025 4. Nalini Kanta Mohanty Bhadrak 2025 5. Prakash Chand Jena Bhubaneshwar 2025 6. Anil Meher Bolangir 2025 7. Bindhya Bini Sahu Boudh 2025 8. Pradipta Kumar Das Cuttack 2025 9. Giribala Behera Cuttack City 2025 10. Sem Hemram Deogarh 2025 11. Chabbiraj Biswal Dhenkanal 2025 12. Dasarathi Gomango Gajapati 2025 13. Rashmi Ranjan Patnaik Ganjam East 2025 14. Ramesh Chandra Jena Ganjam West 2025 15. Debaprasad Nayak Jagatsinghpur 2025 16. Maguni Batakrushna Jena Jajpur 2025 17. Jeevan Sarthak Das Jharsuguda 2025 18. Jalandhar Naik Kalahandi 2025 19. Chandra Sekhar Parida Kandhamal 2025 20. Debasmita Sharma Kendrapara 2025 21. Manoj Kumar Jena Keonjhar 2025 22. Rajeeb Kumar Pattanaik Khordha 2025 23. Rupak Turuk Koraput 2025 24. G. Shrinivas Rao Malkangiri 2025 25. Purna Chandra Biswal Mayurbhanj East 2025 26. Bhushan Bihari Sahu Mayurbhanj West 2025 27. Lipika Majhi Nabarangpur 2025 28. Ranajit Das Nayagarh 2025 29. Ghasi Ram Majhi Nuapada 2025 30. Rajesh Kumar Mishra Puri 2025 31. Appala Swamy Kadraka Rayagada 2025 32. Sabir Hussain Rourkela 2025 33. Amit Kumar Guru Sambalpur 2025 34. Binod Patra Subamapur 2025 35. Nirmal Chand Naik Sundargarh2025

History

Pre-Independence 1920-1947 Until 1920, there was no separate provincial committee for Odisha. Congress organisation in Odisha was under Bihar And Orissa Provincial Congress committee . The Nagpur Session of the Indian National Congress, held in December 1920, which finally passed the Non Co-operation resolution was attended by a number of delegates from Orissa such as Pandit Gopabandhu Das, Bhagirathi Mahapatra, Jagabandhu Singh, Jadumani Mangaraj, Mukunda Prasad Das, Niranjan Patnaik and Harekrushna Mahatab. This session of the Congress decided to form the Provincial Congress Committees on linguistic basis. As a result, a separate Provincial Congress Committee was formed for Orissa even though Orissa had not yet became a separate province. Soon after the Nagpur Congress session, the Utkal Union Conference was held at Chakradharpur under the Presidency of Jagabandhu Singh. In this Conference Gopabandhu Das suggested a modification in the outlook of the Utkal Union Conference.

This led to the formation Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee uniting representation of all Odia speaking tracts, consisting of British administered Madras Presidency, Central Province, Bengal Presidency and the pre 1936 Bihar and Orissa Province. With its first President being Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das the formation of Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) gave impetus to formation of Odisha state. This also gave boost to Congress activities in the Odia speaking areas.

The Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee deputed the following twelve members to represent Orissa at the All India Congress Committee. They were Gopabandhu Das, Jagabandhu Singh, Nilakantha Das, Gopabandhu Choudhury, Niranjan Pattanaik, Harekrushna Mahatab, Bhagirathi Mahapatra, Dharanidhar Mishra Banaprastha, Nilakantha Das Choudhury, Atal Bihari Acharya, Brajamohan Panda and Jamini Kanta Biswas.

UPCC gave boost to formation of Orissa state. In 1931 UPCC adopted a resolution moved by Harekrushna Mahatab, that urged the Government of India to establish a separate Orissa state. It also established a committee to take the matter further and cooperate with the British administration without compromising Congress principles.

List of presidents

S.no President Portrait Term Duration1.Gopabandhu Das192019282.Harekrushna Mahatab193019313. Nilakantha Das193419394.Banamali Patnaik195319545.Binayak Acharya196719726.Nilamani Routray197219777.Nityananda Misra197719808.Kunj Bihari Nayak198019849.Hemananda Biswal1984198910.Sarat Pattanayak 19891994(9).Hemananda Biswal1994199811.Niranjan Patnaik 1998 200012.Janaki Ballabh Patnaik2000200113.Giridhar Gamang20012004(12).Janaki Ballabh Patnaik2004200414.Jayadev Jena26 June 200428 January 200915.Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo28 January 20097 June 2011(11).Niranjan Patnaik 7 June 2011 13 May 2013(14).Jayadev Jena13 May 201315 December 201416.Prasad Kumar Harichandan15 December 201419 April 2018(11). Niranjan Patnaik 19 April 2018 23 May 2022 (10). Sarat Pattanayak 23 May 2022 11 February 202517.Bhakta Charan Das11 February 2025Incumbent

Electoral performance

Odisha Legislative Assembly election Year Party leader Seats won Changein seats Outcome1952Nabakrushna ChoudhuryNew1957Harekrushna Mahatab 111961Biju Patnaik 261967Sadashiva Tripathy 61971Nandini Satpathy 201974181977Binayak Acharya251980Janaki Ballabh Patnaik 871985 11990Hemananda Biswal 1071995Janaki Ballabh Patnaik 702000Hemananda Biswal 542004Narasingha Mishra 122009Bhupinder Singh 112014Jayadev Jena112019Niranjan Patnaik 72024Sarat Pattanayak 5

Lok Sabha elections + Lok Sabha ElectionsYearLok SabhaSeats contestedSeats won(+/-) in seats% of votesVote swingPopular voteOutcome19511st1842.51%15,55,78719572nd20 440.01% 2.5017,76,76719623rd20 755.53% 15.5210,93,29719674th20 833.33% 22.2013,53,70419715th19 938.46% 5.1317,16,02119776th20 1138.18% 0.2820,59,49019807th21 1656.07% 17.8934,51,25519848th2157.46% 1.3946,92,93319899th21 1738.41% 19.0542,98,516199110th21 1044.05% 5.6445,98,809199611th21 344.90% 0.8558,50,025199812th21 1141.04% 3.8654,77,410199913th20 336.94% 4.1049,01,186200414th2140.43% 3.4968,45,738200915th21 432.75% 7.6858,16,904201416th21 425.97% 6.7855,91,380201917th18 113.99% 11.9832,85,339202418th2012.52% 1.4731,30,056

Political affairs committee No Name1.Ajay Kumar Lallu2.Bhakta Charan Das3.Rama Chandra Kadam4.Saptagiri Ulaka5.Niranjan Patnaik6Jayadev Jena7. Sarat Pattanayak8.Prasad Harichandan9.Srikant Jena10.Nagendra Pradhan11.Jaganath Patnaik12.Amar Chandra Pradhan 13.Sushila Tiriya14.A. P. Sethi15.Ramachandra Khuntia16.Sarat Raut17.Assaf Ali Khan 18.Tara Prasad Bahinipati19.Ramesh Jena20.C. S. Raazen Ekka21.Debashish Patnaik22.Santosh Singh Saluja23.Biswaranjan Mohanty24.Sasmita Behera

See also Indian National Congress Congress Working Committee All India Congress Committee Pradesh Congress Committee

References

External links

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