Odisha Pradesh Congress(INC)
President	Bhakta Charan Das
Chairman	Rama Chandra Kadam
Headquarters	Congress Bhawan, Unit-2,Bhubaneswar-751009,Odisha
Student wing	National Students' Union of India - Odisha
Youth wing	Odisha Youth Congress
Women's wing	Odisha Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
Ideology	Populism Social liberalism Democratic socialism Social democracy Secularism
ECI Status	A State Unit ofIndian National Congress
Seats in Rajya Sabha	0 / 10
Seats in Lok Sabha	1 / 21
Seats in Odisha Legislative Assembly	14 / 147
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TheOdisha Pradesh Congress Committee is the unit of theIndian National Congress for the state ofOdisha. 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 organisation is theCongress Bhawan, situated at Master Canteen circle inBhubaneswar.

Bhakta Charan Das was appointed president of the committee in 2025 following the 2024 general elections and currently serves as the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee(OPCC) President.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

The house and floor leader of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee MLA cohort isRama Chandra Kadam (Congress Legislative Party Leader) along with deputy Congress Legislative party leaderAshok Kumar Das elected fromPottangi andBasudevpur respectively into theSeventeenth Assembly of the legislature. Currently the state unit has only one elected Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha who isSaptagiri Sankar Ulaka having been elected twice consecutively.

The current Social Media Department of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee is also Chaired by a elected tribal lawmakerSatyajeet Gomango & co-chaired by former Zilla Parishad candidate Santosh Pradhan and is purviewed by a national co-coordinator of theAICC Department of Social Media & Digital Platforms & Assets Dr Sumit Dubey.^[8][9]

Until 1920, there was no separate provincial committee for Odisha. Congress organisation in Odisha was under Bihar And Orissa Provincial Congress committee .^[10] The Nagpur Session of theIndian 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 andHarekrushna 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 atChakradharpur under the Presidency of Jagabandhu Singh. In this Conference Gopabandhu Das suggested a modification in the outlook of the Utkal Union Conference.^[11]

This led to the formation Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee uniting representation of all Odia speaking tracts, consisting of British administeredMadras Presidency,Central Province,Bengal Presidency and the pre 1936Bihar and Orissa Province.^[12] With its first President being UtkalamaniGopabandhu Das the formation ofUtkal Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) gave impetus to formation of Odisha state. This also gave boost to Congress activities in the Odia speaking areas.^[13][14]

The Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee deputed the following twelve members to representOrissa 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 byHarekrushna 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.^[15]

S.no	President	Portrait	Term		Duration
1.	Gopabandhu Das		1920	1928
2.	Harekrushna Mahatab		1930	1931
3.	Nilakantha Das		1934	1939
4.	Banamali Patnaik		1953	1954
5.	Binayak Acharya		1967	1972
6.	Nilamani Routray		1972	1977
7.	Nityananda Misra		1977	1980
8.	Kunj Bihari Nayak		1980	1984
9.	Hemananda Biswal		1984	1989
10.	Sarat Pattanayak		1989	1994
(9).	Hemananda Biswal		1994	1998
11.	Niranjan Patnaik		1998	2000
12.	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik		2000	2001
13.	Giridhar Gamang		2001	2004
(12).	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik		2004	2004
14.	Jayadev Jena		26 June 2004	28 January 2009	4 years, 216 days
15.	Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo		28 January 2009	7 June 2011	2 years, 130 days
(11).	Niranjan Patnaik		7 June 2011	13 May 2013	1 year, 340 days
(14).	Jayadev Jena		13 May 2013	15 December 2014	1 year, 216 days
16.	Prasad Kumar Harichandan		15 December 2014	19 April 2018	3 years, 125 days
(11).	Niranjan Patnaik		19 April 2018	23 May 2022	4 years, 34 days
(10).	Sarat Pattanayak		23 May 2022	11 February 2025	2 years, 264 days
17.	Bhakta Charan Das		11 February 2025	Incumbent	1 year, 5 days

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		69 / 140	18	Government
1977	Binayak Acharya	26 / 140	25	Opposition
1980	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	118 / 147	87	Government
1985		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

Lok Sabha Elections

Year	Lok Sabha	Seats contested	Seats won	(+/-) in seats	% of votes	Vote swing	Popular vote	Outcome
1951	1st	18	11 / 20		42.51%		15,55,787	Government
1957	2nd	20	7 / 20	4	40.01%	2.50	17,76,767	Government
1962	3rd	20	14 / 20	7	55.53%	15.52	10,93,297	Government
1967	4th	20	6 / 20	8	33.33%	22.20	13,53,704	Government
1971	5th	19	15 / 20	9	38.46%	5.13	17,16,021	Government
1977	6th	20	4 / 21	11	38.18%	0.28	20,59,490	Opposition
1980	7th	21	20 / 21	16	56.07%	17.89	34,51,255	Government
1984	8th	21	20 / 21		57.46%	1.39	46,92,933	Government
1989	9th	21	3 / 21	17	38.41%	19.05	42,98,516	Opposition
1991	10th	21	13 / 21	10	44.05%	5.64	45,98,809	Government
1996	11th	21	16 / 21	3	44.90%	0.85	58,50,025	Opposition
1998	12th	21	5 / 21	11	41.04%	3.86	54,77,410	Opposition
1999	13th	20	2 / 21	3	36.94%	4.10	49,01,186	Opposition
2004	14th	21	2 / 21		40.43%	3.49	68,45,738	Government
2009	15th	21	6 / 21	4	32.75%	7.68	58,16,904	Government
2014	16th	21	0 / 21	4	25.97%	6.78	55,91,380	Opposition
2019	17th	18	1 / 21	1	13.99%	11.98	32,85,339	Opposition
2024	18th	20	1 / 21		12.52%	1.47	31,30,056	Opposition

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