Raghunath Patnaik

Patnaik was born in a village near Jeypore in the district of Koraput in Odisha.

He has represented the Jeypore constituency six times[2] in the Odisha legislative assembly and besides being the Leader of Opposition in the assembly has worked as a Cabinet Minister for Finance, Law, Panchaytiraj departments of Government of Odisha several times.

During his chairmanship in municipality the electric street lights were introduced in Jeypore replacing the manual oil lamp posts.

Women's College and construction of Upper Kolab dam are few among his contributions in the development of the region.

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