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Nityananda Pradhan

politician from Odisha, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ16106768 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nityananda Pradhan (born 18 November 1944) is an Indian politician. He was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha, representing Aska (Lok Sabha constituency).

He left Communist Party of India and joined Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in 2008.

He is a former member of Legislative Assembly of Odisha.

Nityananda Pradhan was denied ticket in 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.

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“Nityananda Pradhan” enters the record as politician from Odisha, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nityananda, Pradhan and politician can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944, 2008, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1944-11-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nityananda, Pradhan and politician.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16106768. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1944, 2008 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nityananda Pradhan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.