Kundapur,officially Kundapura,is a coastal town situated in the Udupi district of the state of Karnataka,India. This town was known as Coondapoor while it was part of the erstwhile South Canara district (1862–1947) of the Madras Presidency of British India. Present-day Kundapur is administered by the Kundapur Town Municipal Council and serves as the headquarters of the Kundapur Taluk of Udupi district.
Shankaranarayana is a village in Kundapura taluk of Udupi district in the state of Karnataka in India.It is situated in midst of coconut and arecanut plantations along with forests adjoining western ghats. Earlier this village was called as Golikatte.
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 representing the Bangalore North constituency. 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.
K. Raghupati Bhat is an Indian politician and a ex member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing the Udupi Assembly constituency.
Ajri is a village in Kundapura taluk,Udupi district,Karnataka,India.
Tallur is a village in the Kundapur taluk of Udupi district in Karnataka State of India. It is less than five kilometres from the town of Kundapura.
Irmady Moodalakatte Jayarama Shetty was a Member of Parliament who represented the Udupi Constituency of Karnataka in the 12th Lok Sabha. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Korgi Jayaprakash Hegde is an Indian politician who has been a Minister in the Government of Karnataka. He is the Chairman of the Karnataka Backward Class Commission. As Minister in charge of undivided Mangalore and Chikmagalur,in 1997,he is the reason for the creation of Udupi district,from undivided Mangalore and Udupi. He was also a Member of India's Parliament representing Udupi Chikmagalur.
Bellipady Ramanath Rai is an Indian politician who was a Minister in Government of Karnataka from 23 May 2013 to 15 May 2018.
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.
Halady,also spelled Haladi,is a small village located in Kundapura Taluk,Udupi District,Karnataka,22 km from Taluk Centre Kundapura. Halady village consists of Halady 76 and Halady 28,which are two portions of the village.
Hutturke Gopal Bhandary was an Indian politician from the State of Karnataka and a member of Legislative Assembly of Karnataka. He was elected as MLA from Karkala constituency and served in 1999-2004 and 2008–2013.
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.
Halady Srinivas Shetty is a five-term MLA from Kundapur. He quit the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2012 after denial of a ministerial position,fought and won the 2013 election as an independent candidate without the support of any political party,and rejoined the party before the 2018 assembly election. He is called ''ಕುಂದಾಪುರದವಾಜಪೇಯಿ '' due to his simplicity.
Vasudev Sunil Kumar is an Indian politician. He is the member of the legislative assembly from Bharatiya Janata Party representing Karkala constituency. Before he served as Chief Whip of BJP Government in Karnataka Legislative Assembly. In November 2020,he was appointed the Co-Incharge of BJP in Kerala.
Kalmady Gopala Poojary is an Indian politician who is the current Chairman of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation and member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Baindur. He was born in Kalmady,Byndoor in August of 1959 to a poor farmer family. After graduation Gopala Poojary moved to Mumbai to find work. On his return to Karnataka,Gopala Poojary started his restaurant business in 1984. Introduced to politics through his political Godfather S Bangarappa. Gopala Poojary contests election for the first time as a member of the KCP in 1994 garnering 10436 votes. Gopala Poojary contests the 1996 by election as an INC candidate for the first time winning the election by 8000 votes. Gopala Poojary goes on to win the next two elections registering a hattrick of wins in 1996,1999 and 2004. He tasted defeat for the first time in 2008. He later went on to hold the Udupi District President Post. Gopala Poojary contests election once again in 2013 and wins by a margin of 31000 votes. He is defeated in the election of 2018. Gopala Poojary is considered to be a very senior leader in Udupi and is regarded as "Badavara Bandu" and lauded for being a simple politician in his hometown Byndoor.
Shivajinagar is one of the seats in Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India. It is a segment of Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency. After the boundaries of this constituency were redrawn in 2008 delimitation exercise,it became a stronghold of Roshan Baig. But he left Congress in 2019.
Yashpal Anand Suvarna,is an Indian politician and businessman from Udupi,Karnataka. He serves as General Secretary of the BJP National OBC Morcha. He is a vice president of the Udupi Government Pre-University College Development Committee. He was elected as the MLA from Udupi Assembly constituency from the BJP Karnataka for the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Gururaj Gantihole is an Indian politician as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party from Byndoor Assembly Constituency since May 2023 after he defeated Indian National Congress's candidate K Gopala Poojary by 16,153 votes contesting the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket.
