Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress
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The Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress ('All Orissa Tribal Congress') was a tribal political movemenent in the Indian state of Orissa. It was launched on the initiative of leaders of the Indian National Congress in Orissa, who wanted to counter-mobilize against the territorial claims of the Jharkhand Party on the Orissa tribal belt.<ref name="Chaudhuri1992">Template:Cite book</ref> The organization was founded by Lal Ranjit Singh Bariha in late 1950.<ref name="Malik">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Sadasivan1977">Template:Cite book</ref> Bariha, Tribal Welfare Minister in the pre-1952 Orissa state government, was accompanied by other ministers in building the organization in the Orissa tribal belt.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/><ref name="Bailey1963">Template:Cite book</ref> The Abibasi Mahasabha led by Sonaram Soren merged into the Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress.<ref name="RaoBinani1954">Template:Cite book</ref> In 1951 the Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress was able to counter the Jharkhand movement in Orissa, leading to the marginalization of the latter in Orissa politics.<ref name="Malik"/> In September 1951 Sonaram Soren was named Acting President of Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress.<ref name="Reed1954">Template:Cite book</ref>
The organization contested the 1952 elections in alliance with the Indian National Congress.<ref name="KogekarPark1956">Template:Cite book</ref> The Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress won five seats in the 1952 Orissa Legislative Assembly election.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Sonaram Soren was one of the elected legislators and was named became Minister of Tribal and Rural Welfare, Labour and Commerce in the state government.<ref name="Reed1954"/> The Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress supported the Congress government during its 1952-1957 tenure.<ref name="Nanda1979">Template:Cite book</ref> Its legislators later joined the Orissa Congress Legislative Party.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> T. Sanganna, the Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress Vice President and who had been elected from the Rayagada-Phulbani seat in the 1952 Indian general election, formed a one-member parliamentary faction of Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress in the Lok Sabha.<ref>Lok Sabha. First Lok Sabha - Party Wise Details - Nikhil Utkal Adibasi Congress</ref><ref name="Singh1954">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="ShankarRodrigues2014">Template:Cite book</ref> Moreover, Sibnarayan Singh Mahapatra, who was elected as a Member of Parliament from Sundargarh, served as the treasurer of the Nikhil Utkal Adivasi Congress and President of one of its district units from April 1951.<ref>Lok Sabha. MAHAPATRA, SHRI SIBNARAYAN SINGH</ref> Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Sunder Mohun Hemrom was a member of the organization from 1950 onwards.<ref name="Sabha1955">Template:Cite book</ref>
The organization again contested the 1957 elections.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/>