| Sarat Pattanayak | |
| Birth Date: | 1956 12, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Saintala, Odisha, India |
| Office: | President Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee |
| Term Start: | 23 May 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Niranjan Patnaik |
| Termstart1: | 2001 |
| Termend1: | 2004 |
| Predecessor1: | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik |
| Successor1: | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik |
| Office2: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Term Start2: | 1991 |
| Term End2: | 1998 |
| Constituency2: | Balangir, Odisha |
| Predecessor2: | Balgopal Mishra |
| Successor2: | Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo |
| Party: | Indian National Congress |
| Spouse: | Namita Pattanayak |
| Source: | https://sansad.in/ls/members/biography/3563?from=amembers&former=1&profileURL=https://lssapi.nic.in/MemberProfile/biodata_1_12/3563.htm |
Sarat Pattanayak is an Indian politician hailing from Balangir in Odisha. He was elected to the 10th and 11th Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India as a member of Parliament of the Indian National Congress party. He is currently serving as President of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee.[1] [2] [3]
Son of Jugul Pattanayak, born on 15 August 1956 in a Hindu Karana family, in Saintala near Balangir. He is married to Namita Pattanayak and together they have two daughters and a son. He has completed his bachelor's degree from Rajendra College, Balangir later on pursuing a law (LLB) degree from Gangadhar Meher College & Lajpat Rai Law College, Sambalpur.[4]
Having served as an elected Member of Lok Sabha in the then ruling P V Narasimha Rao government which gave him a close quarter view of the 1992 economic liberalisation in India, Sarat is currently serving as the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee's president.[5]