Chief Minister of Odisha

The chief minister of Odisha, an Indian state, is the head of the Government of Odisha. As per the Constitution of India, the governor is the state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Odisha Legislative Assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. . Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Odisha as well. Chief Minister also serves as Leader of the House in the Legislative Assembly.https://apuat21.cgg.gov.in/web/legislative-assembly/leader-of-the-house

Brief History On 1 April 1936, Orissa Province was formed. The first provincial government formed under Prime ministership of Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo. He ruled until July 1937. Thereafter the All India Congress party leader Bishwanath Das took over the charge of Prime minister for two more years. Again Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati took the charge before he finally handed over to Dr. Harekrushna Mahatab in the year 1946.

After India got its independence under the new framework the Prime Minister or Premier position of provincial governments got abolished and the position of chief minister was created in 1950. Until the first election after independence, Dr. Harekrushna Mahatab continued to be the chief minister of Odisha and then it was taken over by Nabakrushna Choudhury. Here is the list of chief ministers of Odisha since 1946. Since 1946, Odisha has had 14 chief ministers. Serving from 2000 till 2024, Naveen Patnaik of the Biju Janata Dal was the longest-serving chief minister in Odisha's history (He also the 1st never INC associated member to occupy the post). The current chief minister of Odisha since 12 June 2024 is Mohan Charan Majhi of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Prime Minister of Orissa (1937–1950) # Portrait Name Constituency Tenure Assembly Government Appointer(Governor) Party 1 Krushna Chandra Gajapati Paralakhemundi 1 April 1937 19 July 1937 1st Provincial Gajpati I Sir John Austen Hubback Independent 2 Bishwanath Das Ghumsur 19 July 1937 6 November 1939 Das I Indian National Congress (1) Krushna Chandra Gajapati Paralakhemundi 24 November 1941 30 June 1944 Gajpati II Sir Hawthorne Lewis Independent 3 Harekrushna Mahatab East Bhadrak 23 April 1946 26 January 1950 2nd Provincial Mahtab I Chandulal Trivedi Indian National Congress

Chief Minister of Orissa/Odisha (1950–present) # Portrait Name Constituency Tenure Assembly Government Appointer(Governor) Party 1 Harekrushna Mahatab East Bhadrak 26 January 1950 12 May 1950 2nd Provincial Mahtab I Chandulal Trivedi Indian National Congress 2 Nabakrushna Choudhuri North Kendrapara 12 May 1950 20 February 1952 Choudhuri I Asaf Ali Barchana 20 February 1952 19 October 1956 1st Choudhuri II Asaf Ali (1) Harekrushna Mahatab Not Contested 19 October 1956 5 April 1957 Mahtab II Bhim Sen Sachar Soro 6 April 1957 25 February 1961 2nd Mahtab III Bhim Sen Sachar Vacant (President's rule) N/A 25 February 1961 23 June 1961 Dissolved N/A N/A N/A 3 Biju Patnaik Choudwar 23 June 1961 2 October 1963 3rd Biju I Yashwant Narayan Sukthankar Indian National Congress 4 Biren Mitra Cuttack City 2 October 1963 21 February 1965 MitraAjudhia Nath Khosla 5 Sadashiva Tripathy Umerkote 21 February 1965 8 March 1967 Tripathy Ajudhia Nath Khosla 6 Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo Bolangir 8 March 1967 9 January 1971 4th Singh Deo Ajudhia Nath Khosla Swatantra Party Vacant (President's rule) N/A 9 January 1971 3 April 1971 Dissolved N/A N/A N/A 7 Bishwanath Das Rourkela 3 April 1971 14 June 1972 5th Das II Shaukatullah Shah Ansari Independent 8 Nandini Satpathy Cuttack City 14 June 1972 3 March 1973 Satpathy I Sardar Jogendra Singh Indian National Congress Vacant (President's rule) N/A 3 March 1973 6 March 1974Dissolved N/A N/A N/A (8) Nandini Satpathy Dhenkanal 6 March 1974 16 December 1976 6th Satpathy II Basappa Danappa Jatti Indian National Congress Vacant (President's rule) N/A 16 December 1976 29 December 1976 N/A N/A N/A 9 Binayak Acharya Berhampur 29 December 1976 30 April 1977 Acharya Siba Narain Sankar Indian National Congress Vacant (President's rule) N/A 30 April 1977 26 June 1977 Dissolved N/A N/A N/A 10 Nilamani Routray Basudevpur 26 June 1977 17 February 1980 7th Routray Harcharan Singh Brar Janata Party Vacant (President's rule) N/A 17 February 1980 9 June 1980 Dissolved N/A N/A N/A 11 Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Athagarh 9 June 1980 10 March 1985 8th Janaki I C. M. Poonacha Indian National Congress 10 March 1985 7 December 1989 9th Janaki II Bishambhar Nath Pande 12 Hemananda Biswal Laikera 7 December 1989 5 March 1990 Biswal I Saiyid Nurul Hasan (3) Biju Patnaik Bhubaneswar 5 March 1990 15 March 1995 10th Biju II Yagya Dutt Sharma Janata Dal (11) Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Begunia 15 March 1995 17 February 1999 11th Janaki III B. Satya Narayan Reddy Indian National Congress 13 Giridhar Gamang Laxmipur 17 February 1999 6 December 1999 Gamang C. Rangarajan (12) Hemananda Biswal Laikera 6 December 1999 5 March 2000 Biswal II M. M. Rajendran 14 Naveen Patnaik Hinjili 5 March 2000 16 May 2004 12th Naveen I M. M. Rajendran Biju Janata Dal 16 May 2004 21 May 2009 13th Naveen II M. M. Rajendran 21 May 2009 21 May 2014 14th Naveen III Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare 21 May 2014 29 May 2019 15th Naveen IV S. C. Jamir 29 May 2019 12 June 2024 16th Naveen VGaneshi Lal 15 Mohan Charan Majhi Keonjhar 12 June 2024 Incumbent 17th Majhi Raghubar Das Bharatiya Janata Party

Statistics

#Chief MinisterPartyTerm of office Longest tenure Total tenure 1 Naveen Patnaik 2 Janaki Ballabh Patnaik 13 years, 155 days 3 Biju Patnaik /INC 7 years, 111 days 4 Nabakrushna Choudhuri 5 Harekrushna Mahatab 4 years, 236 days 6 Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo 7 Nandini Satpathy 3 years, 182 days 8 Nilamani Routray 9 Mohan Charan Majhi 10 Sadashiva Tripathy 11 Biren Mitra 12 Bishwanath Das IND 13 Giridhar Gamang 14 Hemananda Biswal 178 days 15 Binayak Acharya

Chief Minister of Odisha

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