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'''Bed Prakash Agarwal''' (died April 20, 2019) was an Indian politician.<br />
[[File:Bed Prakash Agarawalla.jpg|thumb|Bed Prakash Agarawal]]<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Agarwal was of [[Marwari people|Marwari]] descent<ref name="hndt">{{cite news |last1=Mohanty |first1=Debabrata |title=BJD candidate and former Odisha finance minister passes away |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bjd-candidate-and-former-odisha-finance-minister-passes-away/story-L5kl39TERgOgHE8Yg8IiuN.html |accessdate=20 April 2019 |work=Hindustan Times |date=20 April 2019}}</ref> and a native of [[Patkura]].<ref name="obytes">{{cite news |title=Senior BJD Leader Bed Prakash Agarwalla Passes Away |url=https://www.odishabytes.com/senior-bjd-leader-bed-prakash-agarwal-passes-away/ |accessdate=20 April 2019 |work=Odisha Bytes |date=20 April 2019}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Kendrapara]] municipal council from 1957 to 1970, when he began serving as chairman of the municipality. He left office in 1974 to contest the [[Kendrapara (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kendrapara]] seat in the [[Odisha Legislative Assembly]], and was seated as a representative of the [[Utkal Congress]]. Agarwal switched affiliations to the [[Janata Party]] and was reelected in 1977.<ref name="obytes"/> He grew close to [[Biju Patnaik]],<ref name="tnn">{{cite news |title=BJD's former minister and assembly candidate Bed Prakash Agarwal passes away |url=https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/bjds-former-minister-and-assembly-candidate-bed-prakash-agarwal-passes-away/403776 |accessdate=20 April 2019 |work=Times Now News |date=20 April 2019}}</ref> joined the [[Janata Dal]] for the 1990 elections, and served as finance minister within Patnaik's government. Following Patnaik's death in 1997, Agarwal contested the 2000 Odisha legislative elections as a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<ref name="obytes"/> Agarwal won the Patkura seat in 2009 and 2014, for [[Biju Janata Dal]], and remained the BJD candidate for the 2019 elections until his death in [[Bhubaneswar]] on 20 April 2019.<ref>{{cite news |title=BJD Patkura contestant dead |url=http://www.uniindia.com/~/veteran-bjd-leader-and-patkura-assy-candidate-bed-prakash-agarwal-passes-away/States/news/1570149.html |accessdate=20 April 2019 |work=Business Standard |agency=Press Trust of India |publisher=United News of India |date=20 April 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420225949/http://www.uniindia.com/~/veteran-bjd-leader-and-patkura-assy-candidate-bed-prakash-agarwal-passes-away/States/news/1570149.html |archivedate=20 April 2019}} [https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/bjd-patkura-contestant-dead-119042000406_1.html Alt URL]</ref><br />
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[[Category:1930s births]]<br />
[[Category:2019 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:People from Kendrapara district]]<br />
[[Category:Janata Dal politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Odisha]]<br />
[[Category:Biju Janata Dal politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Odisha municipal councillors]]<br />
[[Category:Members of the Odisha Legislative Assembly]]<br />
[[Category:State cabinet ministers of Odisha]]<br />
[[Category:Marwari people]]<br />
[[Category:Janata Party politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Utkal Congress politicians]]<br />
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