Talk:Irasis Acharya

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Proposed changes: Collapsing to keep the talk page readable. —Leaf.Sheap ⇖ /.°°.\ ⇗ (They•Them) 19:56, 28 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Proposed lead (replaces current lead) Irasis Acharya is an Indian politician from Odisha and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has been a member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly from Bhatli since June 2024.[1] He was previously the state president of the Odisha unit of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the BJP, and served as the BJP's Odisha state secretary from 2023 to 2025.[2][3][4] Proposed new sections ==Education== According to his election affidavit, Acharya holds a Master of Laws degree from Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, awarded in 2013.[5] He was listed as an assistant professor at KIIT University in a 2017 institutional report, having joined in September 2013.[6] ==Political career== Acharya was president of the Odisha unit of the BJYM by 2021, a position he continued to hold in 2023.[2][3] He was separately appointed a state secretary of the BJP's Odisha unit in 2023;[4] he does not appear on the party's list of office-bearers announced in October 2025, indicating the term ran from 2023 to 2025.[7] ===Arrests and cases=== In 2018, police in Bargarh arrested Acharya in connection with a firing incident at Bhatli on 1 June 2018, under sections of the Indian Penal Code including section 302 and provisions of the Arms Act. Acharya said the arrest was politically motivated, and BJYM activists protested against it.[2] In November 2021, police arrested him in Bhatli ahead of a visit by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to Bargarh.[2] On 28 February 2023, Acharya and 21 other BJYM activists were arrested in Bhubaneswar after a clash with police during a BJYM rally protesting the state's law and order situation following the killing of minister Naba Das.[3][8] Police registered FIR 135[5] and booked them under several sections of the Indian Penal Code, including section 307,[8] and about 20 police personnel were reported injured.[3] BJYM leaders said police had used excessive force and that the charges were false.[9] The Orissa High Court granted bail on 20 April 2023 and Acharya was released from Jharpada Special Jail on 22 April 2023.[3] In his 2024 election affidavit, Acharya declared six pending criminal cases and no convictions.[5] In January 2025, he was acquitted in the 2018 Bhatli firing case.[10][11] ===Elections=== Acharya contested the 2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election from Bhatli as the BJP candidate. He received 75,434 votes (around 41%) and lost to Susanta Singh of the Biju Janata Dal by 23,232 votes.[12] He contested Bhatli again in the 2024 election and won with 107,508 votes (around 55%), defeating Susanta Singh by 27,892 votes.[13][14] He took office on 4 June 2024.[1] === References to add (reference list) === "Irasis Acharya". MLA Track. PRS Legislative Research. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "Odisha BJP Yuva Morcha president Irasis Acharya arrested ahead of CM's visit to Bargarh". Kalinga TV. November 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "Odisha: 22 BJP youth wing activists released from jail two months after their arrest during protest rally". Sambad English. 22 April 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "Odisha BJP chief Samal announces his team". Daijiworld. 4 August 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "Irasis Acharya (Bharatiya Janata Party): Constituency Bhatli (Bargarh), Criminal and Asset Declaration". MyNeta. Association for Democratic Reforms. Retrieved 28 September 2026. National Institutional Ranking Framework 2017: Data Capture Sheet, Overall Category — Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (Institute ID IR17-I-2-1-336) (PDF) (Report). Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, submitted to National Institutional Ranking Framework, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. 3 April 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "Odisha BJP Office Bearers Announced in Reshuffle". Pragativadi. 16 October 2025. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "BJP Stages Dharna Against 'Police Excesses' During Bhubaneswar Protest". Odisha TV. 1 March 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "BJP launches protest outside police station in Odisha over arrest of BJYM activists". OrissaPOST. 1 March 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "Court acquits BJP MLA Irasis Acharya in murder case". The New Indian Express. 7 January 2025. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "Bargarh court acquits Bhatli MLA, 3 others in murder case". The Times of India. January 2025. Retrieved 28 September 2026. Odisha Assembly Elections 2019: Analysis of Vote Share and Margin of Victory (PDF) (Report). Association for Democratic Reforms. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "Bhatli Election Result 2024 LIVE: Bhatli MLA Election Result & Vote Share". Oneindia. Retrieved 28 September 2026. "Bhatli Election Result 2024 LIVE Updates Highlights: Assembly Winner, Loser, Leading, Trailing, MLA, Margin". News18. 4 June 2024. Retrieved 28 September 2026.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by ProContentEditor (talk • contribs) 16:42, 28 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello, thank you for refraining from directly editing the article. I wanted to let you know that you incorrectly filed this edit request as a semi-protected edit request rather than a COI edit request. I've gone ahead and fixed it for you, as well as collapsing the proposed changes for readablity (you can see them by clicking [show]). I have no opinion on the changes themselves. —Leaf.Sheap ⇖ /.°°.\ ⇗ (They•Them) 19:56, 28 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Done ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:32, 7 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Edit request: legal section balance, education, and additions

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I have a paid conflict of interest and am not editing the article directly. Each part below can be reviewed separately. All references except the two new ones already exist in the article.

1. Replace "Arrests and cases" with "Legal proceedings"

Please rename the section "Legal proceedings", move it below "Elections", and replace its text with the following, in date order:

In 2018, police in Bargarh arrested Acharya in connection with a firing incident at Bhatli on 1 June 2018. Acharya said the arrest was politically motivated, and BJYM activists protested outside the police station over it.^[1] In November 2021, he was reportedly arrested at his home in Bhatli for staging protests by party workers ahead of a visit by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to Bargarh.^[1] In February 2023, he was arrested with other BJYM activists after a clash with police during a BJYM protest rally in Bhubaneswar, and was released on bail in April 2023.^[2] His 2024 election affidavit listed six pending criminal cases and no convictions.^[3] On 6 January 2025, a court in Bargarh acquitted him and three co-accused of murder in the 2018 case, after at least 29 witnesses were examined.^[4][5] His lawyer said the acquittal was due to lack of evidence.^[4]

2. Education and additions

(a) Infobox: please add

| alma_mater = Cardiff University (LLM)

(b) Lead: please add after the first sentence: He holds a Master of Laws degree from Cardiff University.^[3]

(c) Career: please add By March 2018, he was a state secretary of the BJYM in Odisha.^[6]

(d) Career: please add In 2025, the state government declared Sohela a notified area council, a long-standing local demand. Residents felicitated Acharya, the local MLA, for pushing the demand.^[7]

3. Source corrections

(a) BJP role: please change to "He was appointed a state secretary of the BJP's Odisha unit in 2023." and remove the "2025" end year and the Pragativadi reference, as no source states the end date. (b) Times of India reference: please change the date to 6 January 2025 and add author Priti Suna. (c) KIIT reference: please change the date to 2017 and the title to "DCS Full Report OVERALL".

Thank you for reviewing. ProContentEditor (talk) 08:43, 10 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Note: references [1] to [5] above are the existing article references kalinga2021 (1), sambad2023 (2), myneta (3), acquittal1 (4) and acquittal2 (5). ~~~~ ProContentEditor (talk) 15:54, 10 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

ProContentEditor (talk) 08:43, 10 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

1. Cite error: The named reference kalinga2021 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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6. "BYJM secretary Irasis Acharya hurt in 'revenge' attack". The New Indian Express. 1 April 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2026.
7. Express News Service (5 September 2025). "Joy and resentment across Odisha over government's list of new NACs, municipalities". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 10 October 2026.