Shobha Karandlaje | |
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Minister of State for Food Processing Industries | |
Assumed office 7 December 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
Minister | Pashupati Kumar Paras |
Preceded by | Prahlad Singh Patel |
Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare | |
Assumed office 7 July 2021 Servingwith Kailash Choudhary | |
President | Ram Nath Kovind |
Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
Minister | Narendra Singh Tomar |
Preceded by | Parshottam Rupala |
Minister of Energy Government of Karnataka | |
In office 22 September 2010 –23 January 2013 | |
Chief Minister | B. S. Yediyurappa Sadananda Gowda Jagadish Shettar |
Preceded by | K. S. Eshwarappa |
Succeeded by | D. K. Shivakumar |
Minister of Food &Civil Supplies Government of Karnataka | |
In office 12 December 2010 –12 July 2012 | |
Chief Minister | B. S. Yediyurappa Sadananda Gowda |
Preceded by | V. Somanna |
Succeeded by | D. N. Jeevaraj |
Minister of Rural Development Government of Karnataka | |
In office 30 May 2008 –9 November 2009 | |
Chief Minister | B. S. Yediyurappa |
Preceded by | C. M. Udasi |
Succeeded by | Jagadish Shettar |
Member of Parliament Lok Sabha | |
Assumed office 2014 | |
Preceded by | K. Jayaprakash Hegde |
Constituency | Udupi Chikmagalur |
Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
In office 2008–2013 | |
Preceded by | seat did not exist |
Succeeded by | S. T. Somashekhar |
Constituency | Yeshvanthapura |
Member of Karnataka Legislative Council | |
In office 15 June 2004 –27 May 2008 | |
Succeeded by | S. Kailash |
Constituency | elected by Legislative Assembly members |
Personal details | |
Born | Puttur,Mysore State,India | 23 October 1966
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party (till 2012;2014–present) |
Other political affiliations | Karnataka Janata Paksha (2012-2014) |
Education | M.A. (Sociology),M.S.W. [1] |
Alma mater | Mangalore University |
Nickname | Shobhakka |
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Shobha Karandlaje (born 23 October 1966) [2] is an Indian BJP politician from Karnataka who is currently serving as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister of State for Food Processing Industries in the Second Modi ministry. [3] She is also the Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party,Karnataka and Member of Parliament [4] representing Udupi Chikmagalur Lok Sabha Constituency. She was a cabinet minister in the Government of Karnataka. [2] She is a close confidant to Karnataka ex Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa. [5] In March 2024,she was announced as the BJP candidate for the Bengaluru North constituency in the 2024 General Elections. [6]
Hailing from Puttur in Coastal Karnataka, [7] Shobha became associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh at a very early age, [8] one of the many women full-time workers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. When she decided to enter politics,the RSS gave her the initial thrust[ citation needed ]. [9]
Shobha completed her M.A. in Sociology and Master of Social Work from Open University,Mysore and School of Social Work Roshni Nilaya,Mangalore University.
She served the Bharatiya Janata Party organisation in various capacities before being elected as an MLC in 2004. She was elected as MLA from Yeswanthpur,Bangalore in May 2008 and was appointed the minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj in the B S Yeddyurappa govt.
She was lauded for her performance as the RDPR minister [10] and came to be known as a good administrator. [11] She resigned in 2009 due to a political crisis but was re-instated in 2010 and was entrusted with the Energy portfolio. She was the power minister in the Jagadish Shettar ministry [12] and also had the additional charge of the Food and Civil Supplies department. She had resigned from BJP and joined KJP formed by ex Chief Minister of Karnataka B. S. Yediyurappa in the year 2012. [13] And was appointed KJP Working President. [14] [15] She contested 2013 assembly election from Rajaji Nagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and came third. [16] By January 2014 she was back in BJP when her party KJP merged with BJP.
She then contested the 2014 Indian general election from Udupi Chikmagalur constituency and won by a margin of 1.81 lakh votes. In 2019 General elections she won consistently for second time gaining 7,18,916 votes,adding +6.26 percentage of votes [17] from Udupi Chikmagalur (Lok Sabha constituency). [18]
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