Bhubaneswar: The 2024 election in Odisha saw quite a few young faces making it to the Odisha Assembly with Upasana Mohapatra being the youngest MLA-elect from Brahmagiri at 26.
Upasana, who contested the election on a BJP ticket, is the daughter of late Congress heavyweight Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra. The 26-year-old “content creator” won by defeating BJD’s Umakanta Samantaray with a margin of 9,830 votes in the coastal seat under Puri parliamentary constituency.
Among the other young winners are:
Suryabanshi Suraj Sthitaprajna (BJP)
Constituency: Dhamnagar in Bhadrak
Age: 28
Pabitra Sunta (INC)
Constituency: Lakshmipur in Koraput
Age: 28
Sanjali Murmu (BJP)
Constituency: Bangriposi in Mayurbhanj
Age: 29
Krushna Chandra Nayak (CPI)
Constituency: Chhatrapur in Ganjam
Age: 30
Barsha Singh Bariha (BJD)
Constituency: Padampur in Bargarh
Age: 30
Souvic Biswal (BJD)
Constituency: Choudwar-Cuttack
Age: 31
Manas Kumar Dutta (BJP)
Constituency: Balasore
Age: 32
Sofia Firdous (INC)
Constituency: Barabati-Cuttack
Age: 32
Pratap Chandra Nayak (Ind)
Constituency: Polasara in Ganjam
Age: 32
Sagar Charan Das (INC)
Constituency: Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi
Age: 33
Akash Dasnayak (BJP)
Constituency: Korei in Jajpur
Age: 33
Satyajeet Gomango (INC)
Constituency: Gunupur in Rayagada)
Age: 33
Tusharkanti Behera (BJD)
Constituency: Kakatpur in Puri
Age: 35
Rohit Joseph Tirkey (BJD)
Constituency: Biramitrapur in Sundargarh
Age: 35
Devi Ranjan Tripathy (BJD)
Constituency: Banki in Cuttack
Age: 36
Naba Kishor Mallick (Ind)
Constituency: Jaydev in Khurda
Age: 37
Sunil Kumar Mohanty (BJD)
Constituency: Puri
Age: 38
Bhabani Shankar Bhoi (BJP)
Constituency: Talsara in Sundargarh
Age: 38
Prakash Chandra Sethi (BJP)
Constituency: Cuttack Sadar
Age: 38
Sampad Chandra Swain (BJP)
Constituency: Paradip in Jagatsinghpur
Age: 38
Om Prakash Mishra (BJP)
Constituency: Satyabadi in Puri
Age: 39
Mangu Khilla (INC)
Constituency: Chitrakonda in Malkangiri
Age: 39
Himanshu Sekhar Sahoo (BJP)
Constituency: Dharmasala in Jajpur
Age: 39
Charamani Kanhar (BJD)
Constituency: Baliguda in Kandhamal
Age: 39
Irasis Acharya (BJP)
Constituency: Bhatli in Bargarh
Age: 39
