Anita Subhadarsini Pattnaik is an

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Polasara Polasara is a town and a Notified area council in Ganjam district in the Indian state of Odisha. Geography Polasara is located at . It has an average elevation of 66 metres (216 feet). Demographics India census A census (from Lat ...

Orissa Odisha (), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is a state located in Eastern India. It is the eighth-largest state by area, and the eleventh-largest by population, with over 41 million inhabitants. The state also has the thir ...

. She was elected as a Member of Parliament from Aska Lok Sabha constituency in 2024. She is the daughter of Mrs.

Kumudini Patnaik Kumudini Patnaik (b 1945) is an Indian Politician and was elected to the Lok Sabha the lower house of Indian Parliament from Aska, Odisha in 2000 in a bye election as a member of the Biju Janata Dal. But she was expelled from the Biju Janata ...

, who was also MP from Aska during 2000-2004. Anita's father Ramkrushna Patnaik was minister in Naveen Patnaik and Biju Patnaik's cabinets. Anita, Kumudini, Ramkrushna were in Biju Janata Dal earlier, later they jumped to Congress then to BJP.

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Odisha India MPs 2024–2029 {{BJP-politician-stub