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The '''Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress''' ('All Orissa Tribal Congress') was a tribal political movemenent in the [[India]]n state of [[Orissa]]. It was launched on the initiative leaders of the [[Indian National Congress]] in Orissa, who wanted to counter-mobilize against the territorial claims of the [[Jharkhand Party]] on the Orissa tribal belt.<ref name="Chaudhuri1992">{{cite book|author=Buddhadeb Chaudhuri|title=Ethnopolitics and Identity Crisis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zbTkAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Inter-India Publications|isbn=978-81-210-0274-5|page=331}}</ref> The organization was founded by Lal Ranjit Singh Bariha in late 1950.<ref name="Malik">{{cite book|author=Suratha Kumar Malik|title=Land Alienation and Politics of Tribal Exploitation in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DbjrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|publisher=Springer Nature|isbn=9789811553820|page=28}}</ref><ref name="Sadasivan1977">{{cite book|author=S. N. Sadasivan|title=Party and democracy in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ2KAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill|page=68}}</ref> Bariha, Tribal Welfare Minister in the pre-1952 Orissa state government, was accompanied by other ministers in building the organization in the Orissa tribal belt.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/><ref name="Bailey1963">{{cite book|author=Frederick George Bailey|title=Politics and Social Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzQ3cTXcI6EC&pg=PA200|year=1963|publisher=University of California Press|page=200|id=GGKEY:K8CXUAE1FLW}}</ref> The Abibasi Mahasabha led by Sonaram Soren merged into the Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress.<ref name="RaoBinani1954">{{cite book|author1=T. V. Rama Rao|author2=G. D. Binani|title=India at a Glance: A Comprehensive Reference Book on India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2b9NOnb8WigC|year=1954|publisher=Orient Longmans|page=511}}</ref> In 1951 the Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress was able to counter the [[Jharkhand]] movement in Orissa, leading to the marginalization of the latter in Orissa politics.<ref name="Malik"/> In September 1951 Sonaram Soren was named Acting President of Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress.<ref name="Reed1954">{{cite book|author=Sir Stanley Reed|title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fgQfAQAAMAAJ|year=1954|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company|page=1295}}</ref>

The organization contested the 1952 elections in alliance with the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref name="KogekarPark1956">{{cite book|author1=Sadanand Vasudeo Kogekar|author2=Richard Leonard Park|title=Reports on the Indian General Elections, 1951-52|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klA5AQAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Popular Book Depot|page=122}}</ref> The Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress won five seats in the [[1952 Orissa Legislative Assembly election]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Indian Recorder & Digest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHgPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA51|year=1957|page=51}}</ref> Sonaram Soren was one of the elected legislators and was named became Minister of Tribal and Rural Welfare, Labour and Commerce in the state government.<ref name="Reed1954"/> The Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress supported the Congress government during its 1952-1957 tenure.<ref name="Nanda1979">{{cite book|author=Sukadev Nanda|title=Coalitional Politics in Orissa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A49aAAAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Sterling|page=146}}</ref> Its legislators later joined the Orissa Congress Legislative Party.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> [[T. Sanganna]], the Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress Vice President and who had been elected from the [[Phulbani (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rayagada-Phulbani seat]] in the [[1952 Indian general election]], formed a one-member parliamentary faction of Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress in the [[Lok Sabha]].<ref>Lok Sabha. ''[https://loksabha.nic.in/members/partyardetail.aspx?party_code=88&lsno=1 First Lok Sabha - Party Wise Details - Nikhil Utkal Adibasi Congress]''</ref><ref name="Singh1954">{{cite book|author=Trilochan Singh|title=Indian Parliament (1952-57): "Personalities"-Series 2 Authentic, Comprehensive and Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of Members of the Two Houses of Parliament|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFvVAAAAMAAJ|year=1954|publisher=Arunam & Sheel|page=37}}</ref><ref name="ShankarRodrigues2014">{{cite book|author1=B.L. Shankar|author2=Valerian Rodrigues|title=The Indian Parliament: A Democracy at Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0vQtDwAAQBAJ|date=15 December 2014|publisher=OUP India|isbn=978-0-19-908825-6|page=112}}</ref> Moreover, [[Sibnarayan Singh Mahapatra]], who was elected as a Member of Parliament from [[Sundargarh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Sundargarh]], served as the treasurer of the Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress and President of one of its district units from April 1951.<ref>Lok Sabha. ''[http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/821.htm MAHAPATRA, SHRI SIBNARAYAN SINGH]''</ref> [[Rajya Sabha]] Member of Parliament [[Sunder Mohun Hemrom]] was a member of the organization from 1950 onwards.<ref name="Sabha1955">{{cite book|author=India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha|title=Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9JFAQAAIAAJ|year=1955|publisher=Rajya Sabha Secretariat|page=78}}</ref>

The organization again contested the 1957 elections.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/>

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