Braja Kishore Tripathy

Braja Kishore Tripathy (born 25 September 1947) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Puri Lok Sabha Constituency of Orissa as a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD). He was a Cabinet Minister in NDA government in 13th Lok Sabha. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party after resigning from BJD in 2009 and unsuccessfully contested the elections from the Puri Lok Sabha Constituency.

On 13 May 2013, he floated a new political party in Odisha and has christened it the Samata Kranti Dal. Tribal Leader from Odisha George Tirkey, MLA Biramitrapur has been appointed as the President of the Samata Kranti Dal. Veteran Socialist Leader and acclaimed Journalist Rabi Rath is the Vice President of the party.

External links

• Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website

Members of the 13th Lok Sabha from Odisha
BJD (10)	Arjun Charan Sethi Bhartruhari Mahtab Braja Kishore Tripathy Jagannath Mallik Prabhat Kumar Samantraya Trilochan Kanungo Padmanava Behera Prasanna Kumar Patasani Naveen Patnaik Prasanna Acharya
BJP (9)	Anandicharan Sahu Ananta Nayak Bikram Keshari Deo Debendra Pradhan Jual Oram Mahamegha Bahan Aira Kharbela Swain Parsuram Majhi Salkhan Murmu Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
Congress (2)	Hema Gamang Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo
12th LS members 14th LS members

Members of the 14th Lok Sabha from Odisha
BJD (11)	Archana Nayak Arjun Charan Sethi Bhartruhari Mahtab Braja Kishore Tripathy Brahmananda Panda Harihar Swain Mohan Jena Prasanna Acharya Prasanna Kumar Patasani Sugrib Singh Tathagata Satapathy
BJP (7)	Ananta Nayak Bikram Keshari Deo Dharmendra Pradhan Jual Oram Mahamegha Bahan Aira Kharbela Swain Parsuram Majhi Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
Congress (2)	Chandra Sekhar Sahu Giridhar Gamang
JMM (1)	Sudam Marndi
13th LS members 15th LS members