Narasingha Mishra
politician from Odisha, India
Nrusingha Mishra (born 23 December 1940) is a politician from Odisha, India. He was the Leader of Opposition in the 15th Odisha Legislative Assembly.
He was the Deputy Leader of the Congress from 2004-2009. But he was first elected to the state legislature in 1990 from JD and served as the Law Minister. He has represented Balangir region from the Indian National Congress party several times. He was the Leader of Opposition (LoP) from 2014-2019. In the 2019 Odisha election, he has got elected instead of his main opponent Arkesh Narayan Singh Deo of BJD by margin of 5431 votes.
Background
Narasingha Mishra (Narsing Mishra/Narasingh Mishra) comes from the small village of Chhatamakhana near Balangir in Odisha.
His father, Judhisthira Mishra, was a lawyer and a member of the Constituent assembly of India.
Born into a family where politics was a part and parcel of the daily life, he joined politics at the age of 18 and was enrolled as a member of the Communist Party of India and continued as such until 1993.
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