List of leaders of the opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly explained

Post:	Leader of the Opposition
Body:	the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Insignia:	File:Seal of Odisha.png
Insigniasize:	100
Insigniacaption:	Seal of Odisha Government
Incumbent:	Naveen Patnaik
Incumbentsince:	19 June 2024
Style:	The Hon’ble
Termlength:	Till the Assembly Continues
Appointer:	Speaker of the Assembly
Inaugural:	Shraddhakar Supakar
Member Of:	Odisha Legislative Assembly
Nominator:	Members of the Official Opposition of the Legislative Assembly

The Leader of the Opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly is the politician who leads the official opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly.

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 follows this 10% rule while the rest of them prefer single largest opposition party according to the rules of their respective houses.

List of Leaders of the Opposition

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure^[2]			Assembly	Chief Minister	Party
1		Shraddhakar Supakar	Rairakhol	16 February 1952	4 March 1957		1st	Nabakrushna Choudhuri	Ganatantra Parishad
2		Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo	Titlagarh	1 April 1957	22 May 1959		2nd	Nabakrushna Choudhuri----Harekrushna Mahatab
(2)		Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo	Kantabanji	21 June 1961	1 March 1967		3rd	Biju Patnaik----Biren Mitra----Sadashiva Tripathy	Ganatantra Parishad
3		Sadashiva Tripathy	Nowrangpur	18 March 1967	23 January 1971		4th	Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo	Indian National Congress
4		Binayak Acharya	Berhampur	4 May 1971	14 June 1972		5th	Bishwanath Das
(2)		Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo	Bolangir	14 June 1972	9 February 1973			Nandini Satpathy	Swatantra Party
5		Biju Patnaik	Rajanagar	9 February 1973	3 March 1973				Utkal Congress
(5)		Biju Patnaik	Rajanagar	19 March 1974	24 March 1977		6th	Nandini Satpathy----Binayak Acharya	Utkal Congress
6		Ram Prasad Mishra	Kantabanji	31 March 1977	30 April 1977			Binayak Acharya	Swatantra Party
7		Chintamani Panigrahi	Begunia	29 June 1977	20 February 1978		7th	Nilamani Routray	Indian National Congress
8		Brundaban Nayak	Hinjili	20 February 1978	3 September 1979
9		Prahlad Mallik	Patkura	3 September 1979	13 February 1980				Janata Party
10		Ananta Narayan Singh Deo	Surada	13 February 1980	17 February 1980
11		Sarat Deb	Aul	2 April 1984	10 March 1985		8th	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	Janata Party (Secular)
(5)		Biju Patnaik	Bhubaneswar Central	22 March 1985	3 March 1990		9th	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik----Hemananda Biswal	Janata Party
(5)		Biju Patnaik	Bhubaneswar Central	23 March 1995	20 May 1996		11th	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	Janata Dal
12		Ashok Kumar Das	Korei	22 May 1996	17 December 1997				Janata Dal
13		Ram Krushna Patnaik	Kodala	22 February 1998	16 November 1998				Janata Dal
14		Prafulla Samal	Bhadrak	16 November 1998	1 December 1998				Janata Dal
15		Satchidanand Dalal	Boudh	11 December 1998	29 February 2000			Janaki Ballabh Patnaik----Giridhar Gamang----Hemananda Biswal	Janata Dal
16		Ramakanta Mishra	Ranpur	21 March 2000	6 February 2004		12th	Naveen Patnaik	Indian National Congress
17		Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	Begunia	4 June 2004	24 January 2009		13th
18		Ramachandra Ulaka	Rayagada	24 January 2009	19 May 2009
19		Bhupinder Singh	Narla	27 May 2009	10 March 2014		14th
20		Narasingha Mishra	Bolangir	11 June 2014	29 May 2019		15th
21		Pradipta Kumar Naik	Bhawanipatna	25 June 2019	30 July 2022		16th		Bharatiya Janata Party
22		Jayanarayan Mishra	Sambalpur	30 July 2022	4 June 2024
23		Naveen Patnaik	Hinjili	19 June 2024	Incumbent		17th	Mohan Charan Majhi	Biju Janata Dal

See also

• Government of Odisha
• Governor of Odisha
• Chief Minister of Odisha
• Odisha Legislative Assembly
• List of current Indian opposition leaders

Notes and References

1. Web site: 16 January 2010 . THE SALARY AND ALLOWANCES OF LEADERS OF OPPOSITION IN PARLIAMENT ACT, 1977 AND RULES MADE THEREUNDER . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100116211914/http://mpa.nic.in/actopp.htm . 16 January 2010.
2. Web site: page error . odishaassembly.nic.in.