12th Orissa Legislative Assembly

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The Twelfth Orissa Legislative Assembly was convened after 2000 Orissa Legislative Assembly election. National Democratic Alliance led by Naveen Patnaik formed government for first time.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Brief history

Due to poor handling of 1999 Odisha cyclone and rise in corruption & criminal cases etc. led to rise of unpopularity of Congress, which eventually led to their dismissal performance in 2000 election. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik along with his council of ministers were sworn in by Governor M. M. Rajendran on 5 March 2000. The BJD had the larger share of representation in the ministry with 16 ministers including the Chief Minister while the BJP had 9. Cabinet reshuffle took place on 6 August 2002 with induction of 8 new ministers.^[4] Assembly was dissolved early almost a year ahead & election were called in line with 2004 Indian general election. NDA lost the general election but won 2004 Orissa Assembly election. Shri Patnaik resigned on 15 May 2004 paving way for new govt.

House Composition

Party	Strength
Party	Assembly Begins	Assembly Dissolves
Biju Janata Dal	68	69
Bharatiya Janata Party	38	38
Indian National Congress	26	25
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	3	2
Communist Party of India	1	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1	1
Janata Dal (Secular)	1	1
All India Trinamool Congress	1	0
Independent	8	10

Office Bearers

Post	Portrait	Name	Tenure		Party
Governor	File:Colour photo of M M Rajendran.png	M. M. Rajendran	Assembly Begins	Assembly Dissolves	N/A
Speaker	File:Sarat Kumar Kar.jpg	Sarat Kumar Kar Template:Small	10 March 2000	21 May 2004	Template:Full party name with color
Deputy Speaker	File:Rama Chandra Panda.jpg	Rama Chandra Panda Template:Small	27 March 2000	6 February 2004	Template:Full party name with color
Leader of the House Template:Small	File:Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik in October 2014.jpg	Naveen Patnaik Template:Small	5 March 2000	15 May 2004	Template:Full party name with color
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs	File:Nalinikanta Mohanty.jpg	Nalinikanta Mohanty Template:Small	5 March 2000	9 July 2001	Template:Full party name with color
	File:Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik in October 2014.jpg	Naveen Patnaik Template:Small	9 July 2001	6 August 2002
	File:Panchanan Kanungo MLA.jpg	Panchanan Kanungo Template:Small	6 August 2002	15 May 2004
Leader of Opposition Template:Small	File:Ramakanta Mishra.jpg	Ramakanta Mishra Template:Small	21 March 2000	6 February 2004	Template:Full party name with color
Pro tem Speaker	File:Habibulla Khan.jpg	Habibulla Khan Template:Small	6 March 2000	8 March 2000	Template:Full party name with color

Council of Ministers

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Members of Legislative Assembly

Source
District	AC. No.	Constituency	Member	Party
Mayurbhanj	1	Karanjia (ST)	Padma Charan Haiburu	Template:Party name with color
	2	Jashipur (ST)	Bhanu Charan Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	3	Bahalda (ST)	Laxman Soren	Template:Full party name with color
	4	Rairangpur (ST)	Droupadi Murmu	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State (I/C)
	5	Bangriposi (ST)	Purusottama Naik	Template:Party name with color
	6	Kuliana (ST)	Sudam Marndi	Template:Full party name with color
	7	Baripada	Kishore Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	8	Baisinga (ST)	Kandra Soren	Template:Full party name with color
	9	Khunta (ST)	Golaka Bihari Naik	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State
	10	Udala (ST)	Bhaskara Madhei	Template:Full party name with color
Balasore	11	Bhograi	Kamala Das	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	12	Jaleswar	Jayanarayan Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	13	Basta	Raghunath Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	14	Balasore	Jiban Pradip Dash	Template:Full party name with color
	15	Soro	Kartik Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
	16	Simulia	Parsuram Panigrahi	Template:Full party name with color
	17	Nilgiri	Pradipta Panda	Template:Full party name with color
Bhadrak	18	Bhandaripokhari (SC)	Ratha Das	Template:Full party name with color
	19	Bhadrak	Biren Palei	Template:Full party name with color	Died on 2 March 2001^[5]
	19	Bhadrak	Prafulla Samal	Template:Full party name with color	Won in May 2002 Bypoll.^[6]
	20	Dhamnagar	Manas Ranjan Mallik	Template:Party name with color
	21	Chandbali (SC)	Bishnu Charan Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
	22	Basudevpur	Bijayshree Routray	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State (I/C)
Jajpur	23	Sukinda	Prafulla Chandra Ghadai	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	24	Korai	Ashok Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	25	Jajpur (SC)	Surjyamani Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	26	Dharamsala	Kalpataru Das	Template:Full party name with color
	27	Barchana	Amar Prasad Satpathy	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State
	28	Bari-Derabisi	Debasis Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	29	Binjharpur (SC)	Pramila Mallik	Template:Full party name with color
Kendrapara	30	Aul	Pratap Keshari Deb	Template:Full party name with color
	31	Patamundai (SC)	Tapash Kumar Das	Template:Full party name with color
	32	Rajnagar	Nalini Kanta Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister, Expelled from Party on 19 July 2001.
	32	Rajnagar	Nalini Kanta Mohanty	Template:Party name with color	Since 30 July 2001.
	33	Kendrapara	Bed Prakash Agarwal	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	34	Patkura	Trilochan Behera	Template:Full party name with color	Merged with Biju Janata Dal party on 21 April 2001.
	34	Patkura	Trilochan Behera	Template:Full party name with color
Jagatsinghpur	35	Tirtol	Debashish Samantaray	Template:Full party name with color
	36	Ersama	Damodar Rout	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	37	Balikuda	Umesh Chandra Swain	Template:Full party name with color
	38	Jagatsinghpur (SC)	Bishnu Charan Das	Template:Full party name with color
Cuttack	39	Kissannagar	Pratap Jena	Template:Full party name with color
	40	Mahanga	Sarat Kumar Kar	Template:Full party name with color	Speaker
	41	Salepur (SC)	Kalindi Behera	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	42	Gobindpur	Panchanan Kanungo	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State (I/C)
	43	Cuttack Sadar	Nibedita Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	44	Cuttack City	Samir Dey	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	45	Choudwar	Bidhubhusan Praharaj	Template:Party name with color
	46	Banki	Pravat Tripathy	Template:Full party name with color
	47	Athgarh	Ranendra Pratap Swain	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State (I/C)
	48	Baramba	Debi Prasad Mishra	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State
Khurda	49	Balipatna (SC)	Raghaba Chandra Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
	50	Bhubaneswar	Biswabhusan Harichandan	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	51	Jatni	Suresh Kumar Routray	Template:Full party name with color
Puri	52	Pipli	Pradeep Maharathy	Template:Full party name with color	Govt. Chief Whip
	53	Nimapara (SC)	Baidhar Malik	Template:Full party name with color
	54	Kakatpur	Surendra Nath Naik	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	55	Satyabadi	Prasad Kumar Harichandan	Template:Full party name with color
	56	Puri	Maheswar Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	57	Brahmagiri	Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra	Template:Full party name with color
Khurda	58	Chilka	Bibhuti Bhusan Harichandan	Template:Full party name with color
	59	Khurda	Jyotirindra Nath Mitra	Template:Party name with color
	60	Begunia	Prashanta Nanda	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State (I/C)
Nayagarh	61	Ranpur	Ramakanta Mishra	Template:Full party name with color	Leader of Oppposition
	62	Nayagarh	Bhagabat Behera	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister, Died on 3 June 2002.
	62	Nayagarh	Mandakini Behera	Template:Full party name with color	Won in July 2002 Bypoll.^[7]
	63	Khandapara	Bijayalaxmi Pattnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	64	Daspalla	Hariharan Karan	Template:Full party name with color
Ganjam	65	Jaganathprasad (SC)	Simanchala Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	66	Bhanjanagar	Bikram Keshari Arukha	Template:Full party name with color
	67	Suruda	Usha Rani Panda	Template:Full party name with color
	68	Aska	Debaraj Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	69	Kavisuryanagar	Nityananda Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	70	Kodala	Ram Krushna Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister, Expelled from Party on 21 September 2002.
	70	Kodala	Ram Krushna Patnaik	Template:Party name with color	Since 10 October 2002.
	71	Khallikote	V. Sugnana Kumari Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	72	Chatrapur	Rama Chandra Panda	Template:Full party name with color	Deputy Speaker
	73	Hinjili	Naveen Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color	Chief Minister
	74	Gopalpur (SC)	Rama Chandra Sethy	Template:Full party name with color
	75	Berhampur	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik	Template:Full party name with color
	76	Chikiti	Usha Devi	Template:Full party name with color
Gajapati	77	Mohana	Surjya Narayan Patro	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	78	Ramagiri (ST)	Haladhar Karji	Template:Full party name with color
	79	Parlakhemundi	Trinath Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
Rayagada	80	Gunupur (ST)	Rammurthy Gamango	Template:Full party name with color
	81	Bissam-cuttack (ST)	Sarangadhar Kadraka	Template:Full party name with color
	82	Rayagada (ST)	Lal Bihari Himirika	Template:Full party name with color
Koraput	83	Lakshmipur (ST)	Bibhisana Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	84	Pottangi (ST)	Jayaram Pangi	Template:Full party name with color
	85	Koraput	Tara Prasad Bahinipati	Template:Full party name with color
Malkangiri	86	Malkangiri (SC)	Arabinda Dhali	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
Malkangiri	87	Chitrakonda (ST)	Mamta Madhi	Template:Full party name with color
Koraput	88	Kotpad (ST)	Basudev Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
Koraput	89	Jeypore	Rabi Narayan Nanda	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State
Nowrangpur	90	Nowrangpur	Habibulla Khan	Template:Full party name with color
	91	Kodinga (ST)	Sadan Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	92	Dabugam (ST)	Bhujabal Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	93	Umarkote (ST)	Parama Pujari	Template:Full party name with color
Nawapara	94	Nawapara	Basanta Kumar Panda	Template:Full party name with color
Nawapara	95	Khariar	Duryodhan Majhi	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State (I/C)
Kalahandi	96	Dharamgarh (SC)	Bira Sipka	Template:Full party name with color
	97	Koksara	Rosni Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
	98	Junagarh	Himansu Sekhar Meher	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State (I/C)
	99	Bhawanipatna (SC)	Pradipta Kumar Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	100	Narla (ST)	Balabhadra Majhi	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State
	101	Kesinga	Dhaneswar Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
Kandhamal	102	Balliguda (ST)	Surendra Kanhar	Template:Full party name with color
	103	Udayagiri (ST)	Saluga Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	104	Phulbani (SC)	Bishnu Priya Behera	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State
Boudh	105	Boudh	Pradip Kumar Amat	Template:Party name with color
Balangir	106	Titilagarh (SC)	Jogendra Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	107	Kantabanji	Santosh Singh Saluja	Template:Full party name with color
	108	Patnagarh	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	109	Saintala	Surendra Singh Bhoi	Template:Full party name with color
	110	Loisingha	Balgopal Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
	111	Bolangir	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
Subarnapur	112	Sonepur (SC)	Kunduru Kushal	Template:Full party name with color
	113	Binka	Niranjan Pujari	Template:Full party name with color
	114	Birmaharajpur	Baishnaba Padhan	Template:Full party name with color	Died on 21 May 2003.
	114	Birmaharajpur	Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color	Won in 2003 Bypoll.^[8]
Angul	115	Athmallik	Nagendra Kumar Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
Angul	116	Angul	Adwait Prasad Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
Dhenkanal	117	Hindol (SC)	Anjali Behera	Template:Full party name with color
	118	Dhenkanal	Krushna Chandra Patra	Template:Full party name with color
	119	Gondia	Nabin Nanda	Template:Full party name with color
Angul	120	Kamakhyanagar	Brahmananda Biswal	Template:Full party name with color
	121	Pallahara	Dharmendra Pradhan	Template:Full party name with color
	122	Talcher (SC)	Mahesh Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color
Bargarh	123	Padampur	Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha	Template:Full party name with color
	124	Melchhamunda	Prakash Chandra Debta	Template:Full party name with color
	125	Bijepur	Ashok Kumar Panigrahy	Template:Full party name with color
	126	Bhatli (SC)	Bimbadhar Kuanr	Template:Full party name with color	Minister of State (I/C)
	127	Bargarh	Ananda Acharya	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
Sambalpur	128	Sambalpur	Jayanarayan Mishra	Template:Full party name with color	Deputy Govt. Chief Whip
Jharsuguda	129	Brajarajnagar	Anup Kumar Sai	Template:Full party name with color
	130	Jharsuguda	Kishore Kumar Mohanty	Template:Full party name with color
	131	Laikera (ST)	Hemananda Biswal	Template:Full party name with color
Sambalpur	132	Kuchinda (ST)	Rabi Narayan Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	133	Rairakhol (SC)	Durjodhan Sohela	Template:Full party name with color	Died on 4 August 2001.
	133	Rairakhol (SC)	Sanatan Bisi	Template:Full party name with color	Won in 2001 Bypoll.^[9]
Deogarh	134	Deogarh	Subash Chandra Panigrahi	Template:Full party name with color
Sundergarh	135	Sundargarh	Shankarsan Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	136	Talsara (ST)	Gajadhar Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	137	Rajgangpur (ST)	Mangala Kisan	Template:Full party name with color	Cabinet Minister
	138	Biramitrapur (ST)	George Tirkey	Template:Full party name with color	Joined Biju Janata Dal on 21 August 2001.
	138	Biramitrapur (ST)	George Tirkey	Template:Full party name with color
	139	Rourkela	Ajit Das	Template:Full party name with color
	140	Raghunathpali (ST)	Shankar Oram	Template:Full party name with color
	141	Bonai (ST)	Dayanidhi Kisan	Template:Full party name with color
Keonjhar	142	Champua (ST)	Saharai Oram	Template:Party name with color
	143	Patna	Gourahari Naik	Template:Full party name with color
	144	Keonjhar (ST)	Mohan Charan Majhi	Template:Full party name with color
	145	Telkoi (ST)	Niladri Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
	146	Ramchandrapur	Badri Narayan Patra	Template:Party name with color
	147	Anandapur (SC)	Mayadhar Jena	Template:Full party name with color

Bypolls

Source
Year	Constituency	Reason for by-poll	Winning candidate	Party
September 2001	Rairakhol (SC)	Death of Durjodhan Sohela	Sanatan Bisi	Template:Full party name with color
May 2002	Bhadrak	Death of Biren Palei	Prafulla Samal	Template:Full party name with color
July 2002	Nayagarh	Death of Bhagabat Behera	Mandakini Behera	Template:Full party name with color
September 2003	Birmaharajpur	Death of Baishnaba Padhan	Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo	Template:Full party name with color

References

↑ Assembly Elections, 2000 : Politics in Post-Cyclone Orissa | Economic and Political Weekly. www.epw.in(2000-04-15). Retrieved 2025-09-09.
↑ Naveen Patnaik’s Odisha (2000-2024). The India Forum(2024-12-02). Retrieved 2025-09-09.
↑ A study on the state legislative assembly elections in Odisha (1952-2024). International Journal of Political Science and Governance({Template:Date).
↑ rediff.com: Naveen Patnaik inducts eight new ministers. m.rediff.com. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
↑ Sitting Congress MLA died in a road accident. zeenews.india.com. Retrieved 2025-09-09.
↑ IndiaVotes AC Bye Election: Bhadrak 2002. IndiaVotes. Retrieved 2025-09-10.
↑ IndiaVotes AC Bye Election: Nayagarh 2002. IndiaVotes. Retrieved 2025-09-10.
↑ BJD wins Orissa by-poll. www.rediff.com. Retrieved 2025-09-10.
↑ IndiaVotes AC Bye Election: Rairakhol 2001. IndiaVotes. Retrieved 2025-09-10.

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[1] Assembly Elections, 2000 : Politics in Post-Cyclone Orissa | Economic and Political Weekly. www.epw.in(2000-04-15). Retrieved 2025-09-09.

[2] Naveen Patnaik’s Odisha (2000-2024). The India Forum(2024-12-02). Retrieved 2025-09-09.

[3] A study on the state legislative assembly elections in Odisha (1952-2024). International Journal of Political Science and Governance({Template:Date).

[4] rediff.com: Naveen Patnaik inducts eight new ministers. m.rediff.com. Retrieved 2025-06-16.

[5] Sitting Congress MLA died in a road accident. zeenews.india.com. Retrieved 2025-09-09.

[6] IndiaVotes AC Bye Election: Bhadrak 2002. IndiaVotes. Retrieved 2025-09-10.

[7] IndiaVotes AC Bye Election: Nayagarh 2002. IndiaVotes. Retrieved 2025-09-10.

[8] BJD wins Orissa by-poll. www.rediff.com. Retrieved 2025-09-10.

[9] IndiaVotes AC Bye Election: Rairakhol 2001. IndiaVotes. Retrieved 2025-09-10.

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