Udupi district is an administrative subdivision in the Karnataka state of India,with the district headquarters in the city of Udupi. It is situated in the Canara old north Malabar coastal region. There are seven taluks,233 villages and 21 towns in Udupi district. The three northern tehsils of Udupi,Kundapur and Karkala,were partitioned from Dakshina Kannada district to form Udupi district on 25 August 1997. Moodabidri was officially declared as new tehsil (taluk) in 2018.
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.
Shobha Karandlaje is an Indian politician from Karnataka who is currently the Minister of State for Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises in the Third Modi Ministry. She was also Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister of State for Food Processing Industries in the Second Modi ministry. She is also the Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party,Karnataka and Member of Parliament representing Bangalore North since 2024,and represented Udupi Chikmagalur Lok Sabha Constituency from 2014 to 2024. She was a cabinet minister in the Government of Karnataka. She is a close confidant to former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.
Udupi Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka a state in southern India. This constituency was created as part of the implementation of the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008,based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament was D. V. Sadananda Gowda of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Gowda was selected on 4 August 2011 to become Chief Minister (CM) of Karnataka after the previous CM B. S. Yeddyurappa resigned. He therefore had to resign as MP for this seat which forced a by-election in 2012. This by-election was won by K. Jayaprakash Hegde of the Indian National Congress (INC). As of the latest elections in 2019,Shobha Karandlaje of the BJP represents this constituency.
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.
Vinay Kumar Sorake is an Indian politician of Indian National Congress. He represented the Udupi in Thirteenth Lok Sabha. He represented the Puttur constituency in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1994. He also won the 2013 Assembly election from Kapu. He was urban development minister in Government of Karnataka from 2013 to 2016.
The 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election was held on 5 May 2013 to elect members from 223 constituencies in the Indian state of Karnataka. The election for the Piriyapatna constituency was postponed to 28 May 2013 due to the death of the BJP candidate for the seat. The voter turnout in the state was 70.23%.
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.
Vasudev Sunil Kumar is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is the member of the legislative assembly from Bharatiya Janata Party representing Karkala Assembly constituency. 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.
U. T. Khader Fareed is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 23rd Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly,since May 2023. He previously served as the Cabinet Minister for Health &Family Welfare,Food,Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and also for Urban Development and Housing in Government of Karnataka.
Eshwar Bheemanna Khandre is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is serving as a cabinet minister in the Government of Karnataka since May 2023. He is also serving as the Working President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee,since 2018. He is a Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Bhalki constituency since 25 May 2008.
Govind Muktappa Karjol,is an Indian politician who is the former Minister of Major and Medium Irrigation,water Resources of Karnataka from 4 August 2021 till 15 May 2023.
Pramod Madhwaraj is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party from the state of Karnataka. In June 2016 Madhwaraj was inducted into the Siddaramaiah led government of Karnataka as a cabinet minister with Independent Charge. Madhwaraj holds the Youth Empowerment and Sports Department,Fisheries Department portfolio in the Government of Karnataka. He is the 10th richest minister in Karnataka to be sworn into the Karnataka Cabinet. Madhwaraj was born in Koli caste of Karnataka state of India.
Kolkebail Prathapachandra Hiriyanna Shetty is an Indian politician who was the chairman of Karnataka Legislative Council from 12 December 2018 to 4 February 2021.
The Udupi Assembly constituency is one of the 224 seats in the Indian state of Karnataka's Assembly. It is part of Udupi Chikmagalur seat of the Lok Sabha.
Gururaj Shetty 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.
M. Raghupathy was an Indian politician and senior leader of the erstwhile Janata Parivar (JNP) who served as the Higher Education Minister in the cabinet of former Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde from 1976 to 1982. He also served as MLC and was elected twice as MLA to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly,once from the Shivajinagar constituency in 1983 and once from the Malleshwaram constituency in 1985. He was known to be close to former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. T. Rama Rao.
