18 Facts About Jual Oram

Jual Oram was born on 22 March 1961 and is an Indian Politician who serving as Minister of Tribal Affairs since 2024.

Jual Oram is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Jual Oram was a member of the 12th, 13th, 14th Lok Sabha and 16th Lok Sabha.

Jual Oram was chosen as one of the Cabinet Ministers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Jual Oram is a former Cabinet Minister in the Government of India.

Jual Oram is the Vice-President of the Bharatiya Janata Party and is one of the party's senior most leaders from the State of Odisha, being one of two founding Legislative Assembly Members from BJP in the state of Odisha.

Jual Oram has served as the president of BJP in the state of Odisha for over four years.

Jual Oram served as leader of opposition party from BJP side in Odisha legislative assembly.

Jual Oram is serving as the chairman of the parliamentary committee on defence.

Jual Oram received a diploma in Electrical Engineering from Utkalmani Gopabandhu Institute of Engineering.

Jual Oram was elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly from Bonai constituency in the following year and served for two terms until 1998.

Jual Oram served as the party's national vice-president for the BJP ST Morcha between 1993 and 1995.

In 1998, Jual Oram was elected to the Lok Sabha from Sundargarh constituency.

Jual Oram was re-elected to the parliament in the following year.

In 2004, Jual Oram was re-elected as party president for the state unit and served for two years.

On 18 May 2014, Jual Oram was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from the Sundargarh constituency after defeating Dilip Tirkey of the Biju Janata Dal.

Jual Oram was the only candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party to win from Odisha.

In 2015, Jual Oram stoked a controversy by equating Sarnaism with Hinduism.