# Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee

The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee is the unit of the Indian National Congress for the state of Odisha. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections in Odisha.
The head office of the organization is the Congress Bhawan, situated at Master Canteen circle in Bhubaneswar. Sarat Pattanayak was appointed president of the committee in 2022 and currently serves as the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee(OPCC) President. On July 21, 2024, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge dissolved the current Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee, days after the party's poor showing in the Lok Sabha and assembly polls in the state.

## History
### Pre-Independence 1920-1947

Until 1920, there was no separate provincial committee for Odisha. Congress organisation in Odisha was under Bihar And Orissa Provincial Congress committee . The Nagpur Session of the Indian National Congress, held in December 1920, which finally passed the Non Co-operation resolution was attended by a number of delegates from Orissa such as Pandit Gopabandhu Das, Bhagirathi Mahapatra, Jagabandhu Singh, Jadumani Mangaraj, Mukunda Prasad Das, Niranjan Patnaik and Harekrushna Mahatab. This session of the Congress decided to form the Provincial Congress Committees on linguistic basis. As a result, a separate Provincial Congress Committee was formed for Orissa even though Orissa had not yet became a separate province. Soon after the Nagpur Congress session, the Utkal Union Conference was held at Chakradharpur under the Presidency of Jagabandhu Singh. In this Conference Gopabandhu Das suggested a modification in the outlook of the Utkal Union Conference.
This led to the formation Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee uniting representation of all Odia speaking tracts, consisting of British administered Madras Presidency, Central Province, Bengal Presidency and the pre 1936 Bihar and Orissa Province. With its first President being Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das the formation of Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) gave impetus to formation of Odisha state. This also gave boost to Congress activities in the Odia speaking areas.
The Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee deputed the following twelve members to represent Orissa at the All India Congress Committee. They were Gopabandhu Das, Jagabandhu Singh, Nilakantha Das, Gopabandhu Choudhury, Niranjan Pattanaik, Harekrushna Mahatab, Bhagirathi Mahapatra, Dharanidhar Mishra Banaprastha, Nilakantha Das Choudhury, Atal Bihari Acharya, Brajamohan Panda and Jamini Kanta Biswas.
UPCC gave boost to formation of Orissa state. In 1931 UPCC adopted a resolution moved by Harekrushna Mahatab, that urged the Government of India to establish a separate Orissa state. It also established a committee to take the matter further and cooperate with the British administration without compromising Congress principles.

## List of Presidents

| S.no | President | Term | Term | Duration |
| 1. | Gopabandhu Das | 1920 | 1928 |
| 2. | Harekrushna Mahatab | 1930 | 1931 |
| 3. | Nilakantha Das | 1934 | 1939 |
| 4. | Banamali Patnaik | 1953 | 1954 |
| 5. | Nilamani Routray | 1967 | 1970 |
| 6. | Nityananda Misra | 1984 | 1988 |
| 7. | Giridhar Gamang | 1990 | 1992 |
| 8. | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | 2000 | 2001 |
| 9. | Sarat Pattanayak | 2001 | 2004 |
| (8). | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | 2004 | 2004 |
| 10. | Jaydev Jena | 26 June 2004 | 28 January 2009 | 4 years, 216 days |
| 11. | Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo | 28 January 2009 | 7 June 2011 | 2 years, 130 days |
| 12. | Niranjan Patnaik | 7 June 2011 | 13 May 2013 | 1 year, 340 days |
| (10). | Jayadev Jena | 13 May 2013 | 15 December 2014 | 1 year, 216 days |
| 13. | Prasad Kumar Harichandan | 15 December 2014 | 19 April 2018 | 3 years, 125 days |
| (12). | Niranjan Patnaik | 19 April 2018 | 23 May 2022 | 4 years, 34 days |
| (9). | Sarat Pattanayak | 23 May 2022 | 11 February 2025 | 2 years, 264 days |
| 14. | Bhakta Charan Das | 11 February 2025 | Incumbent | 11 days |

## Odisha Legislative Assembly election

| Year | Party leader | Seats won | Change in seats | Outcome |
| 1952 | Nabakrushna Choudhury | 67 / 140 | New | Government |
| 1957 | Harekrushna Mahatab | 56 / 140 | 11 | Government |
| 1961 | Biju Patnaik | 82 / 140 | 26 | Government |
| 1967 | Sadashiva Tripathy | 31 / 140 | 6 | Opposition |
| 1971 | Nandini Satpathy | 51 / 140 | 20 | Opposition |
| 1974 | Nandini Satpathy | 69 / 140 | 18 | Government |
| 1977 | Binayak Acharya | 26 / 140 | 25 | Opposition |
| 1980 | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | 118 / 147 | 87 | Government |
| 1985 | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | 117 / 147 | 1 | Government |
| 1990 | Hemananda Biswal | 10 / 147 | 107 | Opposition |
| 1995 | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | 80 / 147 | 70 | Government |
| 2000 | Hemananda Biswal | 26 / 147 | 54 | Opposition |
| 2004 | Narasingha Mishra | 38 / 147 | 12 | Opposition |
| 2009 | Bhupinder Singh | 27 / 147 | 11 | Opposition |
| 2014 | Jayadev Jena | 16 / 147 | 11 | Opposition |
| 2019 | Niranjan Patnaik | 9 / 147 | 7 | Opposition |
| 2024 | Sarat Pattanayak | 14 / 147 | 5 | Opposition |