Kodagu district is an administrative district in the Karnataka state of India. Before 1956,it was an administratively separate Coorg State,at which point it was merged into an enlarged Mysore State.
The town of Virajpet also spelled as Virajapete is town of the district of Kodagu,in India's southern State of Karnataka. It is the main town of the Virajpet taluka,south of the district,and borders Kerala State. The name of the town is derived from its founder,Dodda Vira Rajendra.
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa,often referred to by his initials BSY,is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Parliamentary board committee since 17 August 2022,which is considered the highest office of authority in the party. He served as the 13th Chief Minister of Karnataka,and he was former Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly between 1983 - 2022 in different timelines. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is also the only politician in Karnataka so far to have served four times as the Chief Minister and three times as the Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He is the longest serving BJP Chief Minister of Karnataka. He is former MLA from Shikaripura constituency in Shimoga district,from where he has been elected eight times.
Jagadish Shivappa Shettar is an Indian politician,who served as the 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 2012 to 2013. He is currently serving as Member of Karnataka Legislative Council. He has subsequently served as Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly during 2008–2009. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Earlier in 2023 he had joined the Indian National Congress,where he quit the BJP on being denied the MLA ticket in 2023. He represented Hubli-Dharwad Central Vidhan Sabha seat,which he resigned in 2023 before the elections. In March 2024,he was announced as the BJP candidate from the Belgaum Constituency for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.
The district of Kodagu in present-day Karnataka comprises the area of the former princely state of the same name.
Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda is an Indian politician who served as the Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers of India in the Second Modi ministry from 14 November 2018 to 7 July 2021. He also served as the Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation of India from 5 July 2016 to 24 May 2019 in the First Modi ministry. He is represented the Bangalore North constituency in the parliament from 2014 to 2024. He also held Ministry of Railways and other cabinet positions in the First Modi ministry. He also served as the 14th Chief Minister of Karnataka.
Vedavyasa Srinivasa Acharya was an Indian senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka. He was the Higher Education Minister in the Government of Karnataka.
M. R. Seetharam is an Indian politician,entrepreneur,educationist and philanthropist from the state of Karnataka. He was nominated as a member of Legislative Council in 2012. He was the Minister for Planning,Statistics,Science and Technology in the Congress state Government.
Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency formerly Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka,a state in southern India.This constituency is closer to Kerala. This constituency was created as a part of the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Nalin Kumar Kateel of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). As of the latest elections in 2024,Captain Brijesh Chowta represents this constituency. It comprises whole area of Dakshina Kannada district only.
Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala is an Indian statesman who was the 12th Governor of Karnataka from 1 September 2014 to 6 July 2021. He is also the longest-serving governor for Karnataka after Khurshed Alam Khan.
Appaiah Swami or Sadguru Appayya Swami was a Hindu Indian spiritual master who lived in Virajpet town,in Kodagu,Karnataka,India.
Daradahalli Byregowda Chandregowda was an Indian politician who was Speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly,three-term MLA,one-term MLC,and Member of Parliament—three-terms from Lok Sabha and one-term from Rajya Sabha.
Mandepanda Poovaiah Appachu Ranjan is an Indian politician who was the former Minister for Youth Services and Sports in Karnataka,a state in Southern India. He is a leader of the BJP in Karnataka and a fifth time Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Madikeri Constituency in Kodagu district,Karnataka. He belongs to the Kodava Hindu community.
Virajpet Assembly constituency is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly constituencies of Karnataka. It is represented in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly by A. S. Ponnanna of the Indian National Congress.
Gundugutti M. Manjanathaya was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. Born as G. M. Manjanath,on 2nd June,1904,he was a prominent coffee planter and lived in the village of Gundugutti in Somwarpet taluk in Kodagu district.
Shantheyanda Veena Achaiah is an Indian politician and member of the Karnataka Legislative Council from the Indian National Congress (INC). She is a former president of the Kodagu District Congress Committee,while also having served as the president of the Kodagu Zilla Panchayat.
Kuttur is a small village in Somwarpet Taluk in Kodagu District of Karnataka State,India. It comes under Shanivarsanthe Hobli. It belongs to Mysore Division. It is located 12 km towards east from District headquarters Madikeri. 28 km from Somvarpet,162 km from Mangalore and 234 km from State capital Bangalore.
Meriyanda Chengappa Nanaiah is an Indian politician and lawyer from the State of Karnataka. He held as multiple portfolios during his career including the Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs as part of Deve Gowda ministry between 1994 and 1996. Nanaiah has been politically active for over 30 years. He is five-time member of the Karnataka Legislative Council,and served once as the leader of the opposition in the Council. A book titled Nenapugalu Maasuva Munna (2005) has also been published by a journalist on Nanaiah's life.
Madikeri Assembly constituency is one of the 224 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Karnataka in India.
Mantar Gowda is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is an MLA from Madikeri Assembly constituency in Kodagu district. He represents Indian National Congress Party and won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election.
