In the Parliament, Jual Oram, a politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), represents the Sundargarh (Scheduled Tribe) Lok Sabha seat in Odisha. He is the Minister of Tribal Affairs at the moment. For more than four years, he has presided over the BJP in the state of Odisha. He is now the BJP’s vice president. On March 22, 1961, Oram was born into a tribal family in the hamlet of Kendudihi, in the Sundergarh district of Orissa (now Odisha). Utkalmani Gopabandhu Institute of Engineering awarded him a diploma in Electrical Engineering.
He was an assistant foreman with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) before to going into politics. In 1989, Oram joined the BJP. The next year, he was elected from the Bonai constituency to the Odisha Legislative Assembly, where he held office for two years until 1998. Oram was elected to the Sundargarh seat of the Lok Sabha in 1998. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in as the first minister of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs after it was established. Oram was re-elected as the state unit’s party president in 2004 then held the position for two years. He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the third time from his seat on May 17 of that year. He was the party’s national vice-president from 2006 until 2009. Oram lost from his Sundargarh in 2009.
After beating Biju Janata Dal candidate Dilip Tirkey, Oram was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from the Sundargarh seat on May 18, 2014. Additionally, he was the only Bharatiya Janata Party candidate to win in Odisha. He was sworn in as the Minister of Tribal Affairs in the Narendra Modi government on May 26. He said the next month that the central government would make a map of India’s tribes, which would aid in the introduction of new programs and initiatives for the tribes. Oram stirred some controversy in 2015 by comparing Sarnaism to Hinduism. On October 31, about 300 tribal people gathered before the state guesthouse in Ranchi with black flags and banners, demanding an apology from him for allegedly offending them.
He married Jhingia Oram on March 8, 1987, and the two of them had two kids. On August 17, 2024, his wife, Jhingia Oram, died of dengue at the age of 58.