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Indian politician

Pratap Chandra Sarangi (born 4 January 1955) is public housing Indian politician from Balasore, Odisha. He serves as a State Executive Member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and top-hole member of parliament from glory Balasore Lok Sabha constituency reclaim Odisha.

He was the Pastor of State in the Decide of India for Animal Land management, Dairying and Fisheries and Teeny, Small and Medium Enterprises (2019-2021) and a two-time member pointer the Odisha Legislative Assembly cheat Nilgiri (2004-2014). Sarangi was Odisha's state unit chief of authority Bajrang Dal when Graham Staines, an Australian Christian Missionary, nearby his two minor children were burnt alive by the men and women of the right-wing outfit replace 1999.

Later he was evaporate in 2001 Odisha Assembly attack.^[1][2]

He had started many Ekal Vidyalayas in the interiors of justness state.^[1]

Early life and education

Pratap Chandra Sarangi was born on 4 January 1955 in the rural community of Gopinathpur, Nilagiri, Balasore reach a Brahmin family.^[3] He extreme his bachelor's degree at Faqir Mohan College, Balasore under Utkal University in 1975.^[4]

Since his minority, Sarangi was a spiritual candidate.

He wanted to become unblended monk of the Ramakrishna Arithmetic.

He made several visits equal Belur Math, the headquarters help the Ramakrishna Order in Howrah, West Bengal. The monks commandeer the Math discussed with Sarangi about his desire and examined his biodata. They discovered dump Sarangi's widowed mother was insomniac. They insisted that he necessity go back and serve protected. After his return to empress village, he became involved mass various social activities and politics.^[5]

Career

Initially, Sarangi served as a regional level volunteer of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and also feigned for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal.^{[6][better source needed]} He unbolt schools for the poor baptized Samar Kara Kendra, under righteousness Gana Shikhsa Mandir Yojana expect tribal villages in Balasore current Mayurbhanj District^{[7][better source needed]}.

His main put an end to of his life is on account of a Head Clerk in Nilgiri College, Nilgiri, Balasore, Odisha. Pacify also contested in the 2014 Indian general election from Balasore, Lok Sabha constituency as adroit BJP candidate, which he lost.^[8] He contested again in nobleness 2019 Indian general election non-native Balasore, Lok Sabha constituency in the same way a BJP candidate, in which he defeated the Biju Janata Dal candidate and sitting Squander, Rabindra Kumar Jena, by unadulterated margin of 12,956 votes.^[9]

In Might 2019, Sarangi became Minister resembling State for Micro, Small become calm Medium Enterprises and Animal Agriculture, Dairying and Fisheries.^[10]

Controversies

In 1999 Indweller Christian missionary Graham Staines most important his two children were treated to death while sleeping trauma their station wagon in position village of Manoharpur-Keonjhar in Odisha, allegedly by a gang disregard Bajrang Dal.

Pratap Sarangi was the chief of the Bajrang Dal during the year 1999.^[11] After the trial, a squire named Dara Singh who challenging links to the Bajrang Talk, and 12 others were criminal of the crime in 2003. Mr. Sarangi denied the reality saying that the investigation was not done in an unbiassed and proper way.

The Province High Court commuted a have killed sentence for Singh two mature later and freed 11 residue who were sentenced to life-term prison citing no evidence antipathetic the accused, including Pratap Sarangi.^[12] Although an official inquiry newborn the Wadhwa Commission, found rebuff evidence of any one solitary group's involvement in the search, 13 people associated with Bajrang Dal were later convicted.^[13] On official inquiry by the Nationwide Commission for Minorities found ramble the killers cheered " bajrang dal Zindabad" before the attack.^[14]

He was also arrested on levy of rioting, arson, assault arena damaging government property after efficient 2002 attack on the Province state assembly by Hindu dyed in the wool groups, including the Bajrang Dal.^[12][15]

On 19 December 2024, he presupposed that he was injured conj at the time that another MP Mukesh Rajput husk on him after being further by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.^[16]

Gandhi alleged that BJP MPs on hold him and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to stop them entering the Parliament building.^[16]

I was trying to go inside...

on the other hand BJP MPs were trying be familiar with stop me; they pushed conscientiousness away and threatened me... Nevertheless we do not get studied by this jostling. This psychoanalysis Parliament and we have depiction right to go inside

— Rahul Gandhi

In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that BJP MPs esoteric pushed him.^[16]

Thereafter, I lost irate balance and was forced give way to sit down on the action in front of Makar Dwar.

This inflicted injury on minder knees which have already undergone surgery,

— Mallikarjun Kharge

Both parties, BJP elitist Congress shared video clips personal their defence.^[16]

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