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Pinaki Misra
Indian politician (born 1959) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pinaki Misra (born 23 October 1959) is an Indian politician from the Biju Janata Dal party who served as a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha representing the Puri constituency.[2] In 1996, he contested the Puri Lok Sabha seat as a Congress candidate and won against Braja Kishore Tripathy, who was then the sitting MP and Union Minister from Puri.[3] He is a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and has argued cases in nearly all High Courts and major tribunals across India.[4]
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Early life and education
Pinaki Misra was born in Cuttack, Odisha, in an Odia Brahmin family.[5][6] His father, Lokanath Misra, was a member of the Rajya Sabha and the Governor of Assam.[7]
Misra studied at St. Xavier's School, Delhi. He holds a B.A. (Hons.) degree in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and an LL.B. degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.[8]
Personal life
In January 1984, Misra married Sangita Misra, but they later got divorced, and they had two children together.[9] In May 2025, he married Mahua Moitra, a Trinamool Congress member of parliament from West Bengal, India, in Germany.[10][11][12]
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His positions are chronologically listed as follows.[13]
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