Jitu Patnaik is a politician[1] from Odisha, India. He represented the Champua (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency) between the year 2009 to 2014.[2] In the year 2009 he won the Champua (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency) seat from his nearest rival Sanatan Mahakud by a paltry margin of 145 votes, the thinnest in the State.[3][4]