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| office = [[Member of Legislative Assembly]] and Minister for Industries and Social Welfare, [[Odisha]]<br />
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| party = Indian National Congress<br />
| spouse = Biranchi Narayan Singh Deo <br />
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'''Basanta Manjari Devi''' (1900 – 7 June 1961) was an Indian politician who served as the first woman minister of [[Odisha]]. She was the Deputy Minister of Health in the 1946 [[Nabakrushna Choudhuri|Harekrushna Mahatab]] government.<br />
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==Early life and family==<br />
Devi was born into the royal family of [[Nilgiri State]]. Her father was Shyama Chandra Bhanja Mardaraj Harichandan.<ref name="Member-Profile-985"/> She was married to Biranchi Narayan Singh Deo of Ranapur State. In the 1946 general election she was elected from [[Ranpur (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ranpur constituency]] as an [[Indian National Congress]] candidate. She was a Minister of Health, Relief and Rehabilitation in the 1946 [[Harekrushna Mahatab|Harekrushna Mahtab]] ministry.<ref name="Civic Affairs 1957 p. 3-PA124">{{cite book | title=Civic Affairs | publisher=P. C. Kapoor at the Citizen Press | issue=v. 4, nos. 7-12 | year=1946 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_wmAQAAIAAJ&amp;pg=RA3-PA124 | access-date=2020-07-16 | page=3-PA124|quote=Srimati Basanta Manjari Devi (Health, Relief and Rehabilitation)}}</ref><br />
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In Independent India she was Deputy Health Minister, Odisha in 1953.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Humanities|first=National Endowment for the|date=1952-07-18|title=Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, July 18, 1952, Image 4|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88077521/1952-07-18/ed-1/seq-4/|access-date=2021-06-24}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Orissa MLAs 1957–1961]]<br />
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Odisha]]<br />
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