Know The Youngest MLA-Elect Of Odisha & Other Winners In Late 20s & 30s

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