Adaguru Huchegowda Vishwanath is an Indian politician from Karnataka state. He is a leader of Indian National Congress. He is a Nominated Member of Karnataka Legislative Council. He was the former president of Karnataka unit of the Janata Dal (Secular).
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa, often referred as BSY, is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary board committee since 17 August 2022, termed as 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 so far in Karnataka 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 Indian National Congress. Earlier he was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which he quit on being denied the MLA ticket in 2023. He represented Hubli-Dharwad Central Vidhan Sabha seat, which he resigned in 2023 before the elections.
Jamakhandi is a city in Bagalkot district in the Indian state of Karnataka. It was the capital of the former princely state of Jamkhandi. It is located 90 km towards west from District headquarter. It is the first princely state to merge in constituent India based on demand to make Jamkhandi as a district. It is a subdivision of the district. Mudhol, Bilagi, Rabakavi-Banahatti, Teradal and Jamakhandi taluks come under Jamakhandi subdivision.
Shivalingappa Rudrappa Kanthi was the Chief Minister of Karnataka for a brief period in 1962. He hailed from Lingayat caste in Hungund in Bagalkot district in the northern part of Karnataka. A member of the Indian National Congress (INC), he served as the Speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1962. Kanti was Chief Minister of the State for a brief period of 96 days in 1962. Later, as Education Minister in the S. Nijalingappa Cabinet he was instrumental in the establishment of Bangalore University and Kittur Rani Chennamma Sainik Schools.
Nagaral(ನಾಗರಾಳ) is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Bilagi taluk of Bagalkot district in Karnataka. It is about 35 kilometres (22 mi) from the district headquarters of Bagalkot town and is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from taluka headquarters of Bilagi and on the left bank of the Krishna River. It is famous for the Digamabareshwara temple and well educated persons.
Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge is an Indian politician, who is the current president of the Indian National Congress, and Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 16 February 2021. He became the first person outside the Nehru–Gandhi family to be the president of the party after 24 years. He currently serving as Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha from 17 December 2022. He was formerly the Minister of Railways and Minister of Labour and Employment in the Government of India. Kharge was a Member of Parliament for Gulbarga, Karnataka from 2009 to 2019.
R. Roshan Baig is a former seven-time member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and Minister from South Indian state of Karnataka. He has also been vice-chairman of the Al-Ameen Educational Society. A seven-time MLA, from 1984 to 1994 he was the member of the Janata Party for the first two terms as the MLA and from 1994 to 2019 he was the member of the Indian National Congress for 5 of his MLA terms. Baig was suspended from the Indian National Congress in 2019 after he insulted top Congress leaders for the party's poor performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Roshan Baig had held former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's "arrogance" and Dinesh Gundu Rao's "immaturity" responsible for the "flop show". He was also blamed for praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiatives for inclusive development.
Dr. Sharanaparakash Rudrappa Patil is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is Minister for Medical Education in the Government of Karnataka and member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing Sedam.
Raghunath Vishwanath Deshpande is an Indian politician who was the Minister of state for Revenue Department of Karnataka 8 June 2018 to 23 July 2019. Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Haliyal constituency and he was the Minister for Medium & Heavy Industries in the cabinets headed by Siddaramaiah as well as S. M. Krishna.
Teggi is a panchayat village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. Administratively, Teggi is under Bilagi Taluka of Bagalkot District in Karnataka. The village of Teggi is 18.1 km by road east of Galagali and 12.5 km by road northwest of the town of Bilagi. Teggi is on the south shore of the Krishna River. Teggi has Higher Primary School (HPS) and Government High School and medium of teaching is in Kannada. The people of this village worship Shri Somalingeshwar god and has temple of it built it in stone. Population is dominated by the Valmiki/Nayak/Bedar community. The Teggi village has Bank of Baroda and customers from nearby villages Bisanal, Shivapur, Hanchinal, and Ballur along with local people use this.
Jagadish Timmanagouda Patil is an Indian Politician from the state of Karnataka. He is currently serving as member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing Bilgi.
Ramesh Jarkiholi an Indian politician, former minister of Water Resources in the Government of Karnataka, between 2020 and 2021. As member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he represents Gokak in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He previously served as the Minister for Municipal Administration.
Siddu Nyamagouda (1950-2018) who was also known as Barrage Siddu was an Indian politician who was a former Minister of State for Coal in the Government of India. He also served as MLC and was elected twice as MLA to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 2013, 2018 from Jamakhandi constituency in Bagalkote district.
Badami Assembly seat is one of 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka State, in India. It is part of Bagalkot.
Mudhol Assembly seat is one of 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka State, in India. It is part of Bagalkot.
Terdal is one of the 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka State, in India. It is part of Bagalkot.
Hungund Assembly seat is one of 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka, India. It is part of Bagalkot.
Hanumant Rudrappa Nirani is an Indian politician who is a Member of Karnataka Legislative Council from North West Graduates constituency since 5 July 2016. He is the brother of Murugesh Nirani current Minister of Industries, Government of Karnataka.
