Pinaki Misra

Pinaki Misra
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
11th, 15th, 16th and 17th Lok Sabha
Assumed office
16 May 2009
Preceded byBraja Kishore Tripathy
ConstituencyPuri
Personal details
Born (1959-10-23) 23 October 1959 (age 64)
Puri, Odisha, India
Political partyBiju Janata Dal
Other political
affiliations		Indian National Congress
SpouseSangita Misra
EducationFaculty of Law, University of Delhi
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionLawyer

Pinaki Misra (born 23 October 1959) is an Indian politician from the Biju Janata Dal party; he was the Member of Parliament in the previous Lok Sabha from Puri.[1] In 1996 he contested as the Congress candidate for Puri Lok Sabha seat and won over Braja Kishore Tripathy, the then Puri MP and Union Minister.[2] During the 2019 General Election, Pinaki Misra defeated BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra from the Puri Constituency in a closely contested fight. He is a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and has fought cases in nearly all High Courts in India and major Tribunals in India.[3]

  1. ^ "Profile of Members". Government of India. Archived from the original on 4 December 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  2. ^ Mishra, Bibhuti. "I am disgusted with politics". Sify. Archived from the original on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Pinaki Mishra: Age, Biography, Education, Wife, Caste, Net Worth & More - Oneindia". www.oneindia.com. Retrieved 6 May 2020.