Prafulla Samal (born 15 August 1947 Bhadrak) is an Indian politician and currently a member of the Biju Janata Party. He joined Odisha politics in 1971. In 1995, he was elected as an MLA from Bhadrak Constituency as a representative of the Janata Party in the 10th Legislative Assembly. Later, he was elected to the Legislature from Bhadrak as a Janata Party representative in the 11th and 12th Legislature, and as a Biju Janata Party representative in the 15th and 16th Legislature from Bhandaripokhari. In the 14th Legislature, Prof. Prafulla Samal is an Indian politician from Odisha. He was a six times elected Member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly from 1990, 1995, 2001(bypoll), 2009, 2014, and 2019, representing the Bhadrak and Bhandaripokhari assembly.

Political career

Samal was first elected as a Member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly in 1990, 1995, and in a 2001 by-election, representing Bhadrak as a member of the Janata Dal. He was subsequently elected in 2009, 2014, and 2019, representing Bhandaripokhari as a member of the Biju Janata Dal. In the 2024 Odisha Legislative Assembly elections, he contested from the Bhadrak Legislative Assembly constituency as a BJD candidate. In this election, he secured a total of 66,244 votes, defeating his nearest rival Sitashanshu Shekhar Mohapatra of

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by 16,068 votes.

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Living people Odisha MLAs 2019–2024 Biju Janata Dal politicians Odisha MLAs 2009–2014 Odisha MLAs 2014–2019 Odisha MLAs 1990–1995 Odisha MLAs 1995–2000 1947 births {{Odisha-BJD-politician-stub

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