List of leaders of the opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly

The leader of the opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly is the politician who leads the official opposition in the Odisha Legislative Assembly.

Eligibility

Official Opposition is a term used to designate the political party which has secured the second largest number of seats in the assembly. In order to get formal recognition, the party must have at least 10% of total membership of the Legislative Assembly. A single party has to meet the 10% seat criterion, not an alliance. Many of the Indian state legislatures also follow this 10% rule while the rest prefer single largest opposition party according to the rules of their respective houses.

List of Leaders of Opposition

#	Portrait	Name Template:Small	Tenure			Chief Minister	Assembly Template:Small	Party
1	File:Sradhakar Supakar.jpg	Shraddhakar Supakar Template:Small	16 February 1952	4 March 1957	Template:Ayd	Nabakrushna Choudhuri	1st Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
2	File:RNS-Deo.jpg	Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo Template:Small	1 April 1957	22 May 1959	Template:Ayd	Nabakrushna Choudhuri Harekrushna Mahatab	2nd Template:Small
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(2)	File:RNS-Deo.jpg	Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo Template:Small	21 June 1961	1 March 1967	Template:Ayd	Biju Patnaik Biren Mitra Sadashiva Tripathy	3rd Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
3	File:Sadasiva-Tripathy.jpg	Sadashiva Tripathy Template:Small	18 March 1967	11 January 1971	Template:Ayd	Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo	4th Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
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4	File:Binayak Acharya.jpg	Binayak Acharya Template:Small	4 May 1971	14 June 1972	Template:Ayd	Bishwanath Das	5th Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
(2)	File:RNS-Deo.jpg	Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo Template:Small	14 June 1972	9 February 1973	Template:Ayd	Nandini Satpathy		Template:Full party name with color
5	File:Biju-Patnaik.jpg	Biju Patnaik Template:Small	9 February 1973	3 March 1973	Template:Ayd			Template:Full party name with color
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(5)	File:Biju-Patnaik.jpg	Biju Patnaik Template:Small	19 March 1974	10 December 1974	Template:Ayd	Nandini Satpathy	6th Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
			10 December 1974	16 December 1976	Template:Ayd			Template:Full party name with color
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(5)	File:Biju-Patnaik.jpg	Biju Patnaik Template:Small	30 December 1976	24 March 1977	Template:Ayd	Binayak Acharya	6th Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
6	File:Ram Prasad Mishra.jpg	Ram Prasad Mishra Template:Small	31 March 1977	30 April 1977	Template:Ayd			Template:Full party name with color
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7	File:Chintamani Panigrahi.jpg	Chintamani Panigrahi Template:Small	29 June 1977	20 February 1978	Template:Ayd	Nilamani Routray	7th Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
8	File:Brundaban Nayak.jpg	Brundaban Nayak Template:Small	20 February 1978	3 September 1979	Template:Ayd			Template:Full party name with color
9	File:Prahlad Mallik.jpg	Prahlad Mallik Template:Small	3 September 1979	13 February 1980	Template:Ayd			Template:Full party name with color
10	File:Anant Narayan Singh Deo.jpg	Ananta Narayan Singh Deo Template:Small	13 February 1980	17 February 1980	Template:Ayd			Template:Full party name with color
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-	VacantTemplate:Efn		9 June 1980	1 April 1984	Template:Ayd	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	8th Template:Small	No Official Opposition
11	File:Sarat Kumar Deb.jpg	Sarat Kumar Deb Template:Small	2 April 1984	10 March 1985	Template:Ayd			Template:Full party name with color
(5)	File:Biju-Patnaik.jpg	Biju Patnaik Template:Small	22 March 1985	3 March 1990	Template:Ayd	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Hemananda Biswal	9th Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
-	VacantTemplate:Efn		5 March 1990	15 March 1995	Template:Ayd	Biju Patnaik	10th Template:Small	No Official Opposition
(5)	File:Biju-Patnaik.jpg	Biju Patnaik Template:Small	23 March 1995	20 May 1996	Template:Ayd	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Giridhar Gamang Hemananda Biswal	11th Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
12	File:Ashok Kumar Das MLA Odisha.jpg	Ashok Kumar Das Template:Small	22 May 1996	17 December 1997	Template:Ayd
13	File:Ram Krushna Patnaik.jpg	Ram Krushna Patnaik Template:Small	22 February 1998	16 November 1998	Template:Ayd			Template:Full party name with color
14	File:Prafulla Samal MLA.jpg	Prafulla Samal Template:Small	16 November 1998	1 December 1998	Template:Ayd
15	File:Satchidananda Dalal.jpg	Satchidananda Dalal Template:Small	11 December 1998	29 February 2000	Template:Ayd
16	File:Ramakanta Mishra.jpg	Ramakanta Mishra Template:Small	21 March 2000	6 February 2004	Template:Ayd	Naveen Patnaik	12th Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
17	File:Janaki Ballav Patnaik.jpg	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik Template:Small	4 June 2004	24 January 2009	Template:Ayd		13th Template:Small
18	File:Ulaka Rama Chandra.jpg	Ramachandra Ulaka Template:Small	24 January 2009	19 May 2009	Template:Ayd
19	File:Bhupinder Singh.jpg	Bhupinder Singh Template:Small	27 May 2009	10 March 2014	Template:Ayd		14th Template:Small
20	File:Narasingha Mishra.jpg	Narasingha Mishra Template:Small	11 June 2014	29 May 2019	Template:Ayd		15th Template:Small
21	File:Pradipta Kumar Naik.jpg	Pradipta Kumar Naik Template:Small	25 June 2019	30 July 2022	Template:Ayd		16th Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color
22	File:Jayanarayan Mishra.jpg	Jayanarayan Mishra Template:Small	30 July 2022	4 June 2024	Template:Ayd
23	File:Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik in October 2014.jpg	Naveen Patnaik Template:Small	19 June 2024	Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Mohan Charan Majhi	17th Template:Small	Template:Full party name with color

See also

• Government of Odisha
• Governor of Odisha
• Chief Minister of Odisha
• Deputy Chief Ministers of Odisha
• Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly
• Odisha Legislative Assembly
• Elections in Odisha
• Politics of Odisha
• List of current Indian opposition leaders