Srikant Kumar Jena

Srikant Kumar Jena (born 18 June 1950), is an Indian politician hailing from Ratnagiri, Distt. Jajpur, Odisha. He is the former Minister of State(Independent charge) in the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Statistics & Programme Implementation^{[1][2][3] [4]} He represents the Balasore parliamentary constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha.

He had been elected as MLA in Odisha Legislative Assembly, three times between 1977 and 1989. In 1979-80, he held the post of Minister of State, Industry and Urban Development, Govt. of Odisha. He got elected to Lok Sabha for the first time in 1989 and then subsequently three more times to 10th Lok Sabha, 11th Lok Sabha and 15th Lok Sabha in 1991, 1996 and 2001 respectively.^[5] Before joining Indian National Congress, he was party member of Janata Dal.

He did his B.A. from at Kendrapara College, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

See also

• Balasore (Lok Sabha constituency)
• Indian general election in Orissa, 2009
• Indian National Congress
• Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee

References

Second Manmohan Singh Cabinet
Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh
Cabinet Ministers Agriculture Sharad Pawar Civil Aviation Ajit Singh Coal Shriprakash Jaiswal Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma Communications and IT Kapil Sibal Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch Defence A. K. Antony Earth Sciences Jaipal Reddy External Affairs Salman Khurshid Finance P. Chidambaram Food Processing Industries Sharad Pawar Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad Heavy Ind. & Public Enterprises Praful Patel Home Affairs Sushilkumar Shinde Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Girija Vyas Human Resource Development Pallam Raju Labour and Employment Sis Ram Ola Law and Justice Kapil Sibal Mines Dinsha Patel Minority Affairs K. Rahman Khan New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi Parliamentary Affairs Kamal Nath Petroleum and Natural Gas Veerappa Moily Railway Mallikarjun Kharge Road Transport and Highways Oscar Fernandes Rural development Jairam Ramesh Science and Technology Jaipal Reddy Social Justice and Emp. Selja Kumari Steel Beni Prasad Verma Shipping G. K. Vasan Textiles Kavuri Samba Siva Rao Tribal Affairs Kishore Chandra Deo Urban Development Kamal Nath Water Resources Harish Rawat
Ministers of State (Independent Charge) Chemicals and Fertilizers Srikant Kumar Jena Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution K. V. Thomas Corporate Affairs Sachin Pilot Development of North Eastern Region Paban Singh Ghatowar Drinking Water and Sanitation Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari MSME K. H. Muniyappa Power Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia Statistics and Programme Implementation Srikant Kumar Jena Tourism K. Chiranjeevi Women and Child Dev. Krishna Tirath Youth Affairs and Sports Jitendra Singh
Ministers of State Agriculture Charan Das Mahant, Tariq Anwar Civil Aviation K. C. Venugopal Coal Pratik Prakashbapu Patil Commerce and Industry Daggubati Purandeswari, E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan Comm. & IT Killi Krupa Rani, Milind Murli Deora Corporate Affairs R. P. N. Singh Defence Jitendra Singh External Affairs E. Ahamed, Preneet Kaur Finance Namo Narain Meena, S. S. Palanimanickam Food Processing Ind. Charan Das Mahant Health and Family Welfare Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury, S. Gandhiselvan Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran, R. P. N. Singh Human Resource Development Jitin Prasada, Shashi Tharoor Information and Broadcasting S. Jagathrakshakan Labour and Employment Kodikunnil Suresh Minority Affairs Ninong Ering Parliamentary Affairs Paban Singh Ghatowar, Rajeev Shukla Petroleum and Natural Gas Panabaka Lakshmi, R. P. N. Singh New and Renewable Energy S. Jagathrakshakan Personnel, Public Griev. & Pensions V. Narayanasamy Planning Commission Rajeev Shukla Power K. C. Venugopal PMO V. Narayanasamy Railway Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, K. J. Surya Prakash Reddy Road Trans. & Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana, Tushar Amarsinh Chaudhary Rural development Lal Chand Kataria, Pradeep Jain Aditya Shipping Milind Murli Deora Social Justice and Emp. Balram Naik, Manikrao Hodlya Gavit Textiles Panabaka Lakshmi Tribal Affairs Mahadeo Singh Khandela, Ranee Narah Urban Development Deepa Dasmunsi

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha from Odisha
BJD (14)	Arjun Charan Sethi Baijayant Panda Bhartruhari Mahtab Jayaram Pangi Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo Laxman Tudu Mohan Jena Nityananda Pradhan Pinaki Misra Prasanna Kumar Patasani Rudra Madhab Ray Siddhanta Mahapatra Tathagata Satapathy Yashbant Narayan Singh Laguri
Congress (6)	Amarnath Pradhan Bhakta Charan Das Hemananda Biswal Pradeep Kumar Majhi Sanjay Bhoi Srikant Kumar Jena
CPI (1)	Bibhu Prasad Tarai
14th LS members 16th LS members