Soumya Ranjan Patnaik


Soumya Ranjan Patnaik is the founder and editor of Odia daily Sambad and also a feature film producer as well as a successful business personality. He was elected to 11th Lok Sabha from Bhubaneswar on Indian National Congress ticket. After he was expelled from Congress he floated a new political party 'Aama Odisha Party'.
He is married to Sudatta Patnaik, daughter of Janaki Ballabh Patnaik and Jayanti Patnaik.
On 6 Mar 2018 he merged Aama Odisha Party into Biju Janata Dal and the very same day he was nominated by Naveen Patnaik as a Biju Janata Dal MP of Rajya Sabha.. Shri Soumya Ranjan Patnaik is a member of 16th Assembly of Odisha elected from Khandapada assembly constituency.

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