Biswanath Das was an India

India

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n politician. He was the Prime Minister of Orissa

Orissa

Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

 Province of British India 1937–39, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh 1962–67 and later the Chief Minister of Orissa 1971–72.

Political career

Biswanath Das was a member of the legislative council of Madras Province from 1921 to 1930. After the separation of Orissa on April 1, 1936 he became its Prime Minister on July 19, 1937. Biswanath Das became a member of the Constituent Assembly of India

Constituent Assembly of India

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 in 1946. After the Orissa Vidhan Sabha

Vidhan Sabha

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 election in 1971, the Utkal Congress

Utkal Congress

Utkal Congress was a political party in the Indian state of Orissa. UC was formed in 1969 when Biju Patnaik left Indian National Congress. After the 1971 Orissa elections UC took part in the Biswanath Das ministry in the state. In 1977 Utkal Congress merged into Janata Party....

, the Swatantra Party

Swatantra Party

The Swatantra Party was a classical liberal political party in India founded by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and N. G. Ranga in August 1959. The party opposed the Nehruvian socialist outlook of the Congress Party by advocating free enterprise and free trade, and opposing the licence-permit Raj...

 and the Jharkhand Party

Jharkhand Party

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 formed a United Front

United Front (India)

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 and he became the Chief Minister of the United Front government. He was in office from April 3, 1971 to June 14, 1972.

External links

• A short biography by Gurukalyan Mahapatra in the Orissa Review, January 2006.