Basangouda Ramangouda Patil Yatnal is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and Hindu leader who was the Minister of state for Textiles from 1 July 2002 to 8 September 2003 and Minister of state for Railways from 8 September 2003 to 16 May 2004 and current MLA from Bijapur City Assembly constituency since 2018. He has been a member of parliament from the Bijapur constituency for two terms and has been a member of the legislative council from the Bijapur Local Authorities constituency for one term.
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.
Gangapuram Kishan Reddy is an Indian politician who is serving as the 25th Minister of Coal &45th Minister of Mines since 2024. He also served as Minister of Tourism,Culture and Development of North Eastern Region of India from 2019 to 2024. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 1980. He is an MP representing Secunderabad since 2019. He served as the floor leader of the BJP in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2009 and gave it up after being elected as the state BJP president of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. He was first state president of Telangana BJP from 2014 to 2016,appointed again as Telangana BJP president on 4 July 2023.
Laxman Sangappa Savadi is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is currently serving as a Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from 12 May 2023. He served as the 8th Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka from 20 August 2019 to 28 July 2021 in the Fourth B. S. Yediyurappa ministry.
Lakshmi Ravindra Hebbalkar is an Indian politician from Karnataka. She is currently serving as the Minister of Women and Child Development,and Disabled and Senior Citizens Empowerment in the Government of Karnataka. As a member of the Indian National Congress,she is an elected member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Belagavi Rural.
Ganesh Hukkeri is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is a three-time member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election representing Indian National Congress from Chikkodi-Sadalga Assembly Constituency.
Satish Jarkiholi is an Indian politician from Indian National Congress from Belgaum,Karnataka. He is currently serving as the Minister of Public Works Department in Government of Karnataka and is also a Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing Yemakanmardi constituency since 2008.
Balachandra Laxmanrao Jarkiholi is an Indian politician who is the current MLA from Arabhavi,Belagavi district and chairman of Karnataka Milk Federation. He and his 4 brothers are all very active in local politics.
Baburao Chinchansur is an Indian politician and who served as an MLA represented Gurmitkal for three terms and Chittapur for two terms from the state of Karnataka and served as a Minister of Textiles,Ports &Inland Transport of Karnataka from 2013 to 2016. He also served as a Member of Karnataka Legislative Council from 2022 to 2023.
Anand Prithviraj Singh is an Indian politician who earlier served as Minister of Tourism,Ecology and Environment of Karnataka from 4 August 2021 to 13 May 2023. He was the Minister of Infrastructure development,Hajj &Waqf Department of Karnataka from 10 February 2021 to 26 July 2021. He is a Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Vijayanagara constituency from 16 May 2018.
Sullia Angara is an Indian politician who is the Ex Minister of state for Fisheries,Ports and Inland Transport Department of Karnataka from January 2021. He is a six term member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Sullia Assembly constituency from the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is currently minister for second time from 4 August 2021.
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.
Madan Kaushik is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the immediate past BJP's state president in Uttarakhand and serving his fifth term as MLA from Haridwar constituency. He is the former spokesperson for the Government of Uttarakhand. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly from Haridwar uttarakhand. He served as the cabinet minister from 2017 to 2021 and also,from 2007 to 2012 in Bhartiya Janta Party government under the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat,Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri and Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. He was first elected as a member of the Legislative assembly in the year 2002 and subsequently in the year 2007,2012,2017 and 2022. In 2017,he won the elections with a margin of more than 37,000 votes,thereby getting the 68% of the total polled votes. He further won 2022 elections to serve his fifth term by winning with a margin of more than 15,000 votes.
Abhay Kumar Patil also popularly known as Abhay Patil is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the Member of Legislative Assembly representing Bharatiya Janata Party Belgaum Dakshin and was also the Member of Legislative Assembly of Bharatiya Janata Party from 2004 to 2008 where he represented Hire Bagewadi constituency and from 2009 to 2013 he represented Belagavi Dakshin.
Keshavareddy Sudhakar is an Indian politician and also he was Ex-Minister of Medical Education and Health of Karnataka from 6 February 2020 to 13 May 2023. He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Chikkaballapur in the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Indian National Congress and later was re-elected to the house in 2019 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He also contested in 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election in Chikballapur from BJP but lost to INC Candidate Pradeep Eshwar. In March 2024,he was announced as the BJP candidate from the Chikballapur Constituency for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Chikkaballapur in the 18th Lok Sabha as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharamgouda Alagouda Kage or Raju Kage is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is currently serving as member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing Kagwad.
Arvind Chandrakant Patil is an Indian politician who was a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Khanapur,Karnataka Assembly constituency from 2013 to 2018. He is also an Incumbent Director of The Belgaum District Central Co-Operative Bank.
Operation Kamala, also known as Operation Lotus is a term coined in 2008,when India's former minister G. Janardhana Reddy in the state of Karnataka,used various strategies,including persuasion and financial incentives to secure support from legislators bypassing the anti-defection law,so as to take the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) past the majority number. Operation Lotus refers to "poaching" or "bribing" of MLAs and MPs of other parties by the BJP,mainly of their rival the Indian National Congress party (INC),often to form government in states where they do not have the majority.
Shashikant Akkappa Naik is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party,Karnataka who served as the Minister of Horticulture from 21 June 2006 to 8 October 2007 under H. D. Kumaraswamy.
Ashok Mahadevappa Pattan is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is a member of the Indian National Congress. He is currently serving as member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the Ramdurg Assembly constituency in Belgaum district.
