The First Orissa Provincial Assembly was convened after the 1937 Indian provincial elections.
House Composition PartyStrengthIndian National Congress36United Party 6National Party4No Party Affiliation4Nominated4Independent6
Office Bearers PostPortraitNameTenurePartyGovernorSir John Austen HubbackAssembly Begins11 August 1938N/AGeorge Townsend Boag11 August 19387 December 1938Sir John Austen Hubback8 December 193831 March 1941Sir Hawthorne Lewis1 April 1941Assembly DissolvesSpeakerMukunda Prasad Das28 July 193729 May 1946Deputy SpeakerNanda Kishore Das28 July 193714 September 1945Prime MinisterKrushna Chandra Gajapati1 April 193719 July 1937National PartyBishwanath Das19 July 19376 November 1939Krushna Chandra Gajapati24 November 194130 June 1944National Party
Council of Ministers First Krushna Chandra Gajapati Ministry +PortfolioPortraitName TenureParty Prime Minister Home Finance LawCaptain Maharajah Sri Sri Sri Krishna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo1 April 193719 July 1937 National Party Revenue EducationMandhata Gorachand Patnaik Mahasaya1 April 193719 July 1937 National Party Health Local Self Government Public Works Maulavi Muhammad Latifur Rahman1 April 193719 July 1937 National Party
First Bishwanath Das Ministry PortfolioPortraitNameTenureParty Prime Minister FinanceBishwanath Das19 July 19376 November 1939 Home Education10 September 1937 Revenue Public Works Nityananda Kanungo19 July 19376 November 1939 Home10 September 1937 Law Commerce Health Local Self Government Bodhram Dube19 July 19376 November 1939 Education10 September 1937
Second Krushna Chandra Gajapati Ministry PortfolioPortraitNameTenureParty Prime Minister Home Affairs (except Publicity) Local Self Government Public Works Captain Maharajah Sri Sri Sri Krishna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo1 April 193719 July 1937 National Party Home Affairs (Publicity) Finance Education Development Pandit Godabarish Misra1 April 193719 July 1937 Revenue Health Law CommerceMaulavi Abdus Sobhan Khan1 April 193719 July 1937
Members of Provincial Assembly +Source#ConstituencyMemberParty Remarks Cuttack District 1 East Cuttack Sadar Nabakrushna Choudhuri 2 North Cuttack Sadar Atala Behari Acharya 3 North Cuttack Sadar (SC) Kinai Samal United Party 4 Central Cuttack Sadar Bichitrananda Das 5 West Cuttack Sadar Raj Krushna Bose 6 South Cuttack Sadar Nityananda Kanungo Minister 7 Angul Girija Bhusan Dutta Krupasindhu Bhukta Elected in bypoll. 8 Central Kendrapara Jadumani Mangaraj 9 East Kendrapara Lokanath Mishra 10 North Kendrapara Gobinda Prasad Singh Braja Nath Mishra Elected in bypoll. 11 East Jajpur Bira Kishore Behera 12 East Jajpur (SC) Dwarakanath Das 13 North Jajpur Sadhu Charan Das 14 West Jajpur Birabar Narayan Chandra Dhir Narendra United PartyPuri District 15 East Puri Sadar Mohan Das 16 North Puri Sadar Jagannath Mishra 17 North Puri Sadar (SC) Bisi Behera 18 South Puri Sadar Jagabandhu Sinha 19 East Khurda Prananath Patnaik 20 West Khurda Godabarish Misra MinisterBalasore District 21 Central Balasore Sadar Mukunda Prasad Das Speaker2 2 North Balasore Sadar Charu Chandra Ray 23 South Balasore Sadar Nanda Kishore Das Deputy Speaker 24 East Bhadrak Chakradhar Behera 25 West Bhadrak Jagannath Das 26 West Bhadrak (SC) Nidhi Das Sambalpur District 27 Sambalpur Sadar Bodh Ram Dube Minister 28 Sambalpur Sadar (BT) Nirupalal Singh United Party 29 East Bargarh Fakir Behera 30 East Bargarh (SC) Bisi Ganda National Party 31 West Bargarh Prahaladri Lath 32 Khariar Artatrano Deo United PartyGanjam District 33 Berhampur (Group 1) Dibakar Patnaik 34 Berhampur (Group 2) Rama Chandra Deb No Party Affiliation 35 Berhampur (Group 3) Vysyaraju Kasi Viswanadham Raju No Party Affiliation 36 Paralakimedi Krushna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo National Party Chief Minister 37 Ghumsur Biswanath Das Chief Minister, Resigned. Anando Charan Rout Elected in bypoll. 38 Kudala Ramchandra Mardaraj Dev United Party 39 Chatrapur Gorachand Patnaik National Party Minister 40 Aska Suruda Govind Pradhan 41 Aska Suruda (SC) Punya Naiko Koraput District 42 Jeypore Malkangiri Radhamohan Sahu 43 Nawarangpur Sadasiba Tripathy 44 Koraput Radhakrushna Biswas Ray 45 Baliguda Khondmals Govind Chandra Thataraj Bharat Bhoi Elected in bypoll. Uma Charan Patnaik Elected in bypoll.Muhammadan Constituencies 46 Cuttack Sadar Bahadur Saiyid Ahmad Baksi Khan 47 North Cuttack cum Anugul Saiyid Fazle Haque 48 Balasore cum Sambalpur Abdus Sobran Khan Minister 49 South Orissa Latifur Rahman National Party MinisterWoman Constituencies 50 Cuttack Town Sarla Devi 51 Berhampur Town Adruti Lakshmi Bai Land Holder Constituencies 52 East Orissa Rajendra Narayan Bhanja Deo Bahadur United Party Braja Sundar Das National Party Elected in Bypoll. 53 West Orissa Raja Krisha Chandra Mansingh Harichandra Mardaraj Bhramarbar Rai No Party Affiliation Other Reserved Constituencies 54 Indian Christian Orissa Premananda Mohanty No Party Affiliation 55 Commerce and Industry Orissa Ranglal Modi 56 Labour Orissa Pyari Shankar Roy Nominated Members 57 Nominated E.M. Evans No Party Affiliation 58 Hari Pani Jennah No Party Affiliation 59 M.R.Ry. Arabolu Appalaswami Naidu No Party Affiliation 60 Radha Mohan Panda No Party Affiliation
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