Pratap Sarangi
politician from Odisha, India
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.
Early life and education
Pratap Chandra Sarangi was born on 4 January 1955 in the village of Gopinathpur, Nilagiri, Balasore into a Brahmin family. He completed his bachelor's degree at Fakir Mohan College, Balasore under Utkal University in 1975.
Since his childhood, Sarangi was a spiritual seeker. He wanted to become a monk of the Ramakrishna Math.
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