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{{short description|Indian politician (born 1955)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Pratap Chandra Sarangi
| image = Pratap Chandra Sarangi.jpg
| office1 = [[Minister of State]], [[Government of India]]
| 1blankname1 = Ministry
| 1namedata1 = [[Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises|Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises]]
| prime_minister1 = [[Narendra Modi]]
| minister1 = [[Nitin Gadkari]]
| term_start1 = 31 May 2019
| term_end1 = 7 July 2021
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 =
| 1blankname2 = Ministry
| 1namedata2 = [[Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries|Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries]]
| term_start2 = 31 May 2019
| term_end2 = 7 July 2021
| prime_minister2 = [[Narendra Modi]]
| minister2 = [[Giriraj Singh]]
| office3 = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| constituency3 = [[Balasore (Lok Sabha constituency)|Balasore]]
| predecessor3 = [[Rabindra Kumar Jena]]
| successor3 =
| term_start3 = 23 May 2019
| term_end3 =
| office4 = [[Odisha Legislative Assembly|Member of Odisha Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency4 = [[Nilagiri (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Nilagiri]]
| predecessor4 = Pradipta Panda
| successor4 = Sukanta Kumar Nayak
| term_start4 = 2004
| term_end4 = 2014
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|01|04|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Gopinathpur, Baleshwar|Gopinathpur]], [[Odisha]], [[India]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| alma_mater = [[Fakir Mohan University|Fakir Mohan College]], [[Utkal University]]
}}

'''Pratap Chandra Sarangi''' (born 4 January 1955) is an Indian politician from [[Balasore]], [[Odisha]]. He serves as a National Executive Member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) and a member of parliament from the [[Balasore Lok Sabha constituency]] in Odisha. He was the [[Minister of State]] in the [[Government of India]] for [[Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries|Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries]] and [[Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises|Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises]] (2019-2021) and a two-time member of the [[Odisha Legislative Assembly]] from [[Nilgiri Assembly constituency|Nilgiri]] (2004-2014). Sarangi was Odisha's state unit chief of the [[Bajrang Dal]] when [[Graham Staines]], an Australian Christian Missionary, and his two minor children were burnt alive by the members of the right-wing outfit in 1999. Later he was involved in [[2001 Odisha Assembly attack]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi Profile |url=http://www.naveenpatnaik.com/Profile-of-Shri-Pratap-Chandra-Sarangi-of-NILGIRI-constituency-40.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118082639/http://www.naveenpatnaik.com/Profile-of-Shri-Pratap-Chandra-Sarangi-of-NILGIRI-constituency-40.html |archive-date=18 November 2012 |access-date=25 May 2014 |publisher=Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha website}}</ref>

He had started many [[Ekal Vidyalaya]]s in the interiors of the state.<ref name=":1">{{cite web | title = Pratap Chandra Sarangi - Unlikely Politician Who Lives in Mud House|publisher= Economic Times | url = https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/pratap-chandra-sarangi-an-unlikely-politician-who-lives-in-a-mud-house/an-unlikely-politician/slideshow/69598705.cms | access-date = 15 August 2019 }}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Pratap Chandra Sarangi was born on 4 January 1955 in the village of Gopinathpur, Nilagiri, [[Balasore]] into a [[Brahmin]] family.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2019/may/31/odishas-modi-pratap-sarangi-the-union-minister-who-commutes-by-cycle-and-lives-in-a-thatched-house-1984047.html| title = 'Odisha's Modi' Pratap Sarangi: The Union Minister who commutes by cycle and lives in a thatched hou- The New Indian Express| date = 31 May 2019}}</ref> He completed his bachelor's degree at Fakir Mohan College, Balasore under [[Utkal University]] in 1975.<ref>{{cite web | title = Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi Profile|publisher= My neta info | url = http://myneta.info/LokSabha2019/candidate.php?candidate_id=9918 | access-date = 26 April 2019 }}</ref>

Since his childhood, Sarangi was a spiritual seeker. He wanted to become a monk of the [[Ramakrishna Math]].

He made several visits to [[Belur Math]], the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Order in [[Howrah, West Bengal]]. The monks of the Math discussed with Sarangi about his desire and examined his biodata. They discovered that Sarangi's widowed mother was alive. They insisted that he should go back and serve her. After his return to his village, he became involved in various social activities and politics.<ref>{{cite web | title = people-are-fed-up-with-the-bjd-hot-seat-pratap-Chandra-sarangi-bjp-leader | url = https://www.telegraphindia.com/odisha/people-are-fed-up-with-the-bjd-hot-seat-pratap-chandra-sarangi-bjp-leader/cid/1659622 |date=7 October 2017| access-date = 29 April 2019 | publisher = The Telegraph}}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi taking charge as the Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, in New Delhi on June 04, 2019.jpg|thumb|Sarangi taking charge as the [[Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises|Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises]], in the presence of [[Nitin Gadkari]], [[Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises|Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises]], in New Delhi on 4 June 2019.]]
Initially, Sarangi served as a district level volunteer of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] and also worked for the [[Vishwa Hindu Parishad]] and [[Bajrang Dal]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openthemagazine.com/politics/pratap-chandra-sarangi-the-social-volunteer/|title=Pratap Chandra Sarangi: The Social Volunteer|date=7 June 2019|website=Open The Magazine}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=April 2020}} He opened schools for the poor called Samar Kara Kendra, under the Gana Shikhsa Mandir Yojana in tribal villages in [[Balasore]] and [[Mayurbhanj]] District<ref>{{cite web | title = Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi Profile|publisher= Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha website | url = http://www.naveenpatnaik.com/MLA-Pratap-Chandra-Sarangi-of-NILAGIRI-constituency-1219.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190525114310/http://www.naveenpatnaik.com/MLA-Pratap-Chandra-Sarangi-of-NILAGIRI-constituency-1219.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 25 May 2019 | access-date = 25 May 2014 }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=April 2020}}.

His main part of his life is as a Head Clerk in Nilgiri College, Nilgiri, Balasore, Odisha. He also contested in the [[2014 Indian general election]] from [[Balasore (Lok Sabha constituency)|Balasore]], Lok Sabha constituency as a BJP candidate, which he lost.<ref>{{cite web | title = 'No clash between Modi wave and my image': Pratap Sarangi | url = https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-balasore-lok-sabha-election-results-2019-odisha-bjp-s-pratap-sarangi-defeats-bjd-s-rabindra-jena-2751556 |date=23 May 2019| access-date = 23 May 2019 | work = The Times of India}}</ref> He contested again in the [[2019 Indian general election]] from [[Balasore (Lok Sabha constituency)|Balasore]], Lok Sabha constituency as a BJP candidate, in which he defeated the [[Biju Janata Dal]] candidate and sitting MP, Rabindra Kumar Jena, by a margin of 12,956 votes.<ref>{{cite web | title = 'Balasore Lok Sabha election results 2019 Odisha: BJP's Pratap Sarangi defeats BJD's Rabindra Jena': Pratap Sarangi | url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/No-clash-between-Modi-wave-and-my-image-Pratap-Sarangi/articleshow/33648105.cms |date=12 April 2014| access-date = 25 May 2014 | publisher = DNA India}}</ref>

In May 2019, Sarangi became Minister of State for [[Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises|Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises]] and [[Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries|Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries]].<ref>{{citation |title=PM Modi allocates portfolios. Full list of new ministers |url=https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/pm-modi-allocates-portfolios-full-list-of-new-ministers-1559288502067.html |work=[[Live Mint]] |date=31 May 2019 }}</ref>

== Controversies ==
In 1999 Australian Christian missionary [[Graham Staines]] and his two children were burnt to death while sleeping in their station wagon in the village of [[Manoharpur]]-[[Keonjhar]] in [[Odisha]], allegedly by a gang of Bajrang Dal. Pratap Sarangi was the chief of the Bajrang Dal during the year 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/pratap-sarangi-minister-odisha-graham-staines-bajrang-dal_in_5cf0e08be4b0a1997b683fd8|title=Pratap Sarangi: Minister Who Got The Loudest Cheers Has a Murky Past|date=31 May 2019|website=HuffPost India|language=en|access-date=31 May 2019}}</ref> After the trial, a man named [[Dara Singh (Bajrang Dal)|Dara Singh]] who had links to the Bajrang Dal, and 12 others were convicted of the crime in 2003. Mr. Sarangi denied the fact saying that the investigation was not done in an unbiased and proper way. The [[Orissa High Court]] commuted a death sentence for Singh two years later and freed 11 others who were sentenced to life-term prison citing no evidence against the accused, including Pratap Sarangi.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48470039|title=Pratap Sarangi: India social media hero minister's dubious past|date=31 October 2019|publisher=BBC|access-date=31 May 2019}}</ref> Although an official inquiry by the Wadhwa Commission, found no evidence of any one single group's involvement in the attack, 13 people associated with Bajrang Dal were later convicted.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48470039|title=Pratap Sarangi: India social media hero minister's dubious past|work=BBC News|date=31 May 2019|access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref> Another official inquiry by the [[National Commission for Minorities]] found that the killers cheered "'' bajrang dal Zindabad''" before the attack.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ca6pKcSJrcC|title=Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Report Submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives and Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate by the Department of State in accordance with Sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as Amended|date=2003|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=2357, 2358|isbn=9780160606700|language=en}}</ref>

He was also arrested on charges of rioting, arson, assault and damaging government property after a 2002 attack on the Orissa state assembly by Hindu right-wing groups, including the Bajrang Dal.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/static/html/fl1907/19070190.htm|title=Vandalism in Orissa|website=frontline.thehindu.com|access-date=25 June 2019|archive-date=14 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214062544/https://frontline.thehindu.com/static/html/fl1907/19070190.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 19 December 2024, he alleged that he was injured when another MP [[Mukesh Rajput]] fell on him after being pushed by [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] leader [[Rahul Gandhi]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Bose |first=Saikat Kumar |title=Video: Rahul Gandhi Approaches BJP MP Who Fell During Protest, This Happens |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/rahul-gandhi-pratap-sarangi-parliament-protest-video-rahul-gandhi-approaches-bjp-mp-who-fell-during-protest-this-happens-7284118 |work=NDTV |access-date=19 December 2024}}</ref>

Gandhi alleged that BJP MPs pushed him and Congress president [[Mallikarjun Kharge]] to stop them from entering the Parliament building.<ref name=":2" />

{{Blockquote|text=I was trying to go inside... but BJP MPs were trying to stop me; they pushed me away and threatened me... But we do not get affected by this jostling. This is Parliament and we have the right to go inside|author=[[Rahul Gandhi]]}}

In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker [[Om Birla]], Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that BJP MPs had pushed him.<ref name=":2" />

{{Blockquote|text=Thereafter, I lost my balance and was forced to sit down on the ground in front of Makar Dwar. This inflicted injury on my knees which have already undergone surgery,|author=[[Mallikarjun Kharge]]}}

Both parties, BJP and Congress shared video clips in their defence.<ref name=":2" />

==See also==
* [[Ekal Vidyalaya]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Second Narendra Modi Cabinet}}
{{18th LS members from Odisha}}
{{17th LS members from Odisha}}

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