Chief Minister of Odisha | |
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Chief Minister's Office | |
Style | The Honourable (formal) Mr. Chief Minister (informal) |
Status | Head of government |
Abbreviation | CM |
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Residence | Naveen Nivas, Bhubaneswar, Odisha |
Seat | Lok Seva Bhavan, Bhubaneswar, Odisha |
Appointer | Governor of Odisha by convention, based on appointee's ability to command confidence in the Odisha Legislative Assembly |
Term length | At the pleasure of the governor Legislative Assembly term is 5 years unless dissolved sooner No term limits specified. [1] |
Precursor | Prime Minister of Orissa |
Inaugural holder | Harekrushna Mahatab |
Formation | 1 April 1936 |
Deputy | Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha |
Website | cm |
The chief minister of Odisha, an Indian state, is the head of the Government of Odisha. As per the Constitution of India, the governor is the state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Odisha Legislative Assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits. [1]
On 1 April 1936, Orissa Province was formed. The province has been controlled by the King of Paralakhemundi, Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo. He ruled until July, 1937. Thereafter the All India Congress party leader Bishwanath Das took charge for two more years. Again the King took the control before he finally handed over to Dr. Harekrushna Mahatab in the year 1946. After India got its freedom and constitution was enacted, the state started working in the principles of democracy. Until the first election, Dr. Harekrushna Mahatab continued to be the chief minister of Odisha and then it was taken over by Nabakrushna Choudhury. Here is the list of chief ministers of Odisha since 1946. Since 1946, Odisha has had 14 chief ministers. Serving since 2000, Naveen Patnaik of the Biju Janata Dal is the incumbent chief minister, and the longest-serving one in Odisha's history.
No | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Assembly | Party | |||
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1 | Krushna Chandra Gajapati | 1 April 1937 | 19 July 1937 | 109 days | 1st Pre-Independent | Independent | ||
2 | Bishwanath Das | 19 July 1937 | 6 November 1939 | 2 years, 108 days | Indian National Congress | |||
(1) | Krushna Chandra Gajapati | 24 November 1941 | 30 June 1944 | 2 years, 213 days | Independent | |||
3 | Harekrushna Mahatab | 23 April 1946 | 26 January 1950 | 3 years, 278 days | 2nd Pre-Independent | Indian National Congress |
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No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Tenure | Assembly (election) | Party [lower-alpha 1] | |||
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1 | Harekrushna Mahatab | East Bhadrak | 26 January 1950 | 12 May 1950 | 107 days | 2nd Pre-Independent (1946-1952) | Indian National Congress | ||
2 | Nabakrushna Choudhuri | Barchana | 12 May 1950 | 20 February 1952 | 6 years, 160 days | ||||
20 February 1952 | 19 October 1956 | 1st | |||||||
(1) | Harekrushna Mahatab | Soro | 19 October 1956 | 25 February 1961 | 4 years, 129 days | ||||
6 April 1957 | 25 February 1961 | 2nd | |||||||
– | Vacant [lower-alpha 2] (President's rule) | N/A | 25 February 1961 | 23 June 1961 | N/A | ||||
3 | Biju Patnaik | Choudwar | 23 June 1961 | 2 October 1963 | 2 years, 101 days | 3rd | Indian National Congress | ||
4 | Biren Mitra | Cuttack City | 2 October 1963 | 21 February 1965 | 1 year, 142 days | ||||
5 | Sadashiva Tripathy | Omerkote | 21 February 1965 | 8 March 1967 | 2 years, 15 days | ||||
6 | Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo | Bolangir | 8 March 1967 | 9 January 1971 | 3 years, 307 days | 4th | Swatantra Party | ||
– | Vacant [lower-alpha 2] (President's rule) | N/A | 11 January 1971 | 3 April 1971 | N/A | ||||
7 | Bishwanath Das | Rourkela | 3 April 1971 | 14 June 1972 | 1 year, 72 days | 5th | Independent | ||
8 | Nandini Satpathy | Cuttack | 14 June 1972 | 3 March 1973 | 262 days | Indian National Congress | |||
– | Vacant [lower-alpha 2] (President's rule) | N/A | 3 March 1973 | 6 March 1974 | N/A | ||||
(8) | Nandini Satpathy | Dhenkanal | 6 March 1974 | 16 December 1976 | 2 years, 285 days | 6th | Indian National Congress | ||
– | Vacant [lower-alpha 2] (President's rule) | N/A | 16 December 1976 | 29 December 1976 | N/A | ||||
9 | Binayak Acharya | Berhampur | 29 December 1976 | 30 April 1977 | 122 days | Indian National Congress | |||
– | Vacant [lower-alpha 2] (President's rule) | N/A | 30 April 1977 | 26 June 1977 | N/A | ||||
10 | Nilamani Routray | Basudevpur | 26 June 1977 | 17 February 1980 | 2 years, 236 days | 7th | Janata Party | ||
– | Vacant [lower-alpha 2] (President's rule) | N/A | 17 February 1980 | 9 June 1980 | N/A | ||||
11 | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | Athagarh | 9 June 1980 | 10 March 1985 | 9 years, 181 days | 8th | Indian National Congress | ||
10 March 1985 | 7 December 1989 | 9th | |||||||
12 | Hemananda Biswal | Laikera | 7 December 1989 | 5 March 1990 | 88 days | ||||
(3) | Biju Patnaik | Bhubaneswar | 5 March 1990 | 15 March 1995 | 5 years, 10 days | 10th | Janata Dal | ||
(11) | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | Begunia | 15 March 1995 | 17 February 1999 | 3 years, 339 days | 11th | Indian National Congress | ||
13 | Giridhar Gamang | Laxmipur | 17 February 1999 | 6 December 1999 | 292 days | ||||
(12) | Hemananda Biswal | Laikera | 6 December 1999 | 5 March 2000 | 90 days | ||||
14 | Naveen Patnaik | Hinjili | 5 March 2000 | 16 May 2004 | 24 years, 56 days | 12th | Biju Janata Dal | ||
16 May 2004 | 21 May 2009 | 13th | |||||||
21 May 2009 | 21 May 2014 | 14th | |||||||
21 May 2014 | 29 May 2019 | 15th | |||||||
29 May 2019 | Incumbent | 16th |
The politics of Odisha are part of India's federal parliamentary representative democracy, where the union government exercises sovereign rights. Certain powers are reserved to the states, including Odisha. The state has a multi-party system, in which the two main parties are the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the regional, socialist Biju Janata Dal (BJD). The Indian National Congress (INC) has also significant presence.
Harekrushna Mahatab was the leader of the Indian National Congress, a notable figure in the Indian independence movement and the Chief Minister of Odisha from 1946 to 1950 and again from 1956 to 1961. He was popularly known by the sobriquet "Utkal Keshari".
Maharaja Sir Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo KCIE was an Indian politician and the last ruler of the princely state of Patna in Odisha before Indian independence in 1947. He was the President of the Ganatantra Parishad political party from 1950 to 1962 and the President of the Odisha state unit of the Swatantra Party after its merger with the Ganatantra Parishad in 1962. He was the Chief Minister of Orissa from 1967 to 1971.
The Prime Minister of Orissa was the head of government and the Leader of the House in the Legislative Assembly of Orissa Province in British India. The position was dissolved upon the independence of India in 1947.
Elections to the fifith Odisha Legislative Assembly were held in 1971.