Pratap Sarangi
Pratap Chandra Sarangi | |
|---|---|
| Minister of State, Government of India | |
| In office 31 May 2019 – 7 July 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Minister | Nitin Gadkari |
| Ministry | Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
| In office 31 May 2019 – 7 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 |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Alma mater | 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 Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (2019-2021) and a two-time member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly from 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.
He had started many Ekal Vidyalayas in the interiors of the state.