Pratap Chandra Sarangi | |
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| Minister of State, Government of India | |
| In office 31 May 2019 – 07 July 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Minister | Nitin Gadkari |
| Ministry | Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
| In office 31 May 2019 – 07 July 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Minister | Giriraj Singh |
| Ministry | Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 23 May 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Rabindra Kumar Jena |
| Constituency | Balasore |
| Member of Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 2004–2014 | |
| Preceded by | Pradipta Panda |
| Succeeded by | Sukanta Kumar Nayak |
| Constituency | Nilagiri |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 January 1955 Gopinathpur, Odisha, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Alma mater | Utkal University |
Pratap Chandra Sarangi (born 4 January 1955), was a Minister of State in the Government of India for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. He is a Politician from Balasore, Odisha and serves as a National Executive member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He won Odisha Legislative Assembly, two times: from 2004 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2014, both times from Nilagiri constituency.[1]
He revolutionalised primary education in rural areas through the innovative concept of community funded Ekal Vidyalaya or single teacher schools.[2]
Early life and education
Pratap Chandra Sarangi was born on 4 January 1955 in the village of Gopinathpur, Nilagiri, Balasore into a Brahmin family.[3] He completed his bachelor's degree at Fakir Mohan College, Balasore under Utkal university in 1975.[4]
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 came to know 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.[5]
Career
Initially, Sarangi served as a district level volunteer of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and also worked for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal.[6][better source needed] He opened schools for the poor called Samar Kara Kendra, under the Gana Shikhsa Mandir Yojana in tribal villages in Balasore and Mayurbhanj District[7][better source needed].
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 as a BJP candidate, which he lost.[8] He contested again in the 2019 Indian general election from 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.[9]
In May 2019, Sarangi became Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.[10]
Controversies
In 1999 Australian Christian missionary Graham Staines and his two children were burnt to death whilst sleeping in their station wagon in the village of Manoharpur-Keonjhar in Odisha, allegedly by some local Hindus. The main accused was one Dara Singh, who worked towards preventing cow smuggling and conversions into Christianity. Although it was alleged that Dara Singh was associated with the right-wing Bajrang Dal, whose local leader was Sarangi, no conclusive evidence of the allegations were ever found or succesfully proved in the court. Dara Singh, who is now serving a life sentence in jail along with 12 others, denied any links to Bajrang Dal.[11] The high court in Odisha 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 Sarangi. An official inquiry by the Wadhwa Commission, found no evidence of any one single group's involvement in the attack.
See also
References
- ↑ "Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi Profile". Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha website. Archived from the original on 18 November 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ↑ "Pratap Chandra Sarangi - Unlikely Politician Who Lives in Mud House". Economic Times. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ↑ 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 [bare URL]
- ↑ "Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi Profile". My neta info. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
- ↑ "people-are-fed-up-with-the-bjd-hot-seat-pratap-Chandra-sarangi-bjp-leader". The Telegraph. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ↑ "Pratap Chandra Sarangi: The Social Volunteer". Open The Magazine. 7 June 2019.
- ↑ "Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi Profile". Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha website. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ↑ "'No clash between Modi wave and my image': Pratap Sarangi". The Times of India. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ↑ "'Balasore Lok Sabha election results 2019 Odisha: BJP's Pratap Sarangi defeats BJD's Rabindra Jena': Pratap Sarangi". DNA India. 12 April 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ↑ "PM Modi allocates portfolios. Full list of new ministers", Live Mint, 31 May 2019
- ↑ "Fact Or Fiction: Was BJP Minister Pratap Sarangi Really Involved In Graham Staines' Killing?". Retrieved 25 December 2021.
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