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 organisation is the Congress Bhawan, situated at Master Canteen circle in Bhubaneswar.
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 President.
The house and floor leader of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee MLA cohort is Rama Chandra Kadam along with deputy Congress Legislative party leader elected from Pottangi and Basudevpur respectively into the Seventeenth Assembly of the legislature. Currently the state unit has only one elected Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha who is Saptagiri 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 lawmaker Satyajeet Gomango & co-chaired by former Zilla Parishad candidate Santosh Pradhan and is purviewed by a national co-coordinator of the AICC Department of Social Media & Digital Platforms & Assets Dr Sumit Dubey.

List of district congress committee presidents

S. NoNameDistrictTerm
1.Sunil PradhanAngul2025
2.Satya Shiba DasBalasore2025
3.Hardeep SinghBargarh2025
4.Nalini Kanta MohantyBhadrak2025
5.Prakash Chand JenaBhubaneshwar2025
6.Anil MeherBolangir2025
7.Bindhya Bini SahuBoudh2025
8.Pradipta Kumar DasCuttack2025
9.Giribala BeheraCuttack City2025
10.Sem HemramDeogarh2025
11.Chabbiraj BiswalDhenkanal2025
12.Dasarathi GomangoGajapati2025
13.Rashmi Ranjan PatnaikGanjam East2025
14.Ramesh Chandra JenaGanjam West2025
15.Debaprasad NayakJagatsinghpur2025
16.Maguni Batakrushna JenaJajpur2025
17.Jeevan Sarthak DasJharsuguda2025
18.Jalandhar NaikKalahandi2025
19.Chandra Sekhar ParidaKandhamal2025
20.Debasmita SharmaKendrapara2025
21.Manoj Kumar JenaKeonjhar2025
22.Rajeeb Kumar PattanaikKhordha2025
23.Rupak TurukKoraput2025
24.G. Shrinivas RaoMalkangiri2025
25.Purna Chandra BiswalMayurbhanj East2025
26.Bhushan Bihari SahuMayurbhanj West2025
27.Lipika MajhiNabarangpur2025
28.Ranajit DasNayagarh2025
29.Ghasi Ram MajhiNuapada2025
30.Rajesh Kumar MishraPuri2025
31.Appala Swamy KadrakaRayagada2025
32.Sabir HussainRourkela2025
33.Amit Kumar GuruSambalpur2025
34.Binod PatraSubamapur2025
35.Nirmal Chand NaikSundargarh2025

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 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.