Giridhar gamang biography books

He was born at Dibirisingi village in Rayagada district of Odisha. In , he was elected for the first time to the 5th Lok Sabha from Koraput. Subsequently, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in , , , , , , and His wife, Hema Gamang , won from Koraput constituency in the elections to the 13th Lok Sabha , while he was serving as the Chief Minister of Odisha.

In , while he was a member of the 12th parliament, he was asked to become Chief minister of Odisha. Two months later, there was a vote-of-confidence against the BJP government and Giridhar still went to the parliament to vote against the government as he was from congress despite the fact that he had to quit either being CM or the MP office and become MLA, within six months.

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The government lost power by one vote — and it is widely believed that if Giridhar had abstained, the speaker, G. Balayogi would have used his vote to save the government in case of tie. The fall of government resulted in another fresh general election in May He had briefly joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in , was thought to be their potential Chief Ministerial candidate before being disregarded from consideration by the party.

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