Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda is an Indian politician and former Prime Minister of India from 1 June 1996 to 21 April 1997. He was previously the 14th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996. He presently is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing Karnataka.
Siddaramaiah is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as the Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Legislative Assembly since 9 December 2019. Though he resigned from the Opposition Party leader on 9 December 2019, taking the moral responsibility of the party's defeat in the 2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections, the party continued him in the same post and as the CLP leader, realizing his popularity in the state. He is a member of Congress Working Committee. Currently a leader of the Indian National Congress party,
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa, often referred to by his initials, BSY, is an Indian politician serving as the 19th and current chief minister of Karnataka. Yediyurappa is serving as the chief minister of Karnataka for the fourth time, the only chief minister to do so in Karnataka and he is also the only one so far in Karnataka to serve 3 times as the leader of the opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He is also an eight-time MLA from Shikaripura constituency in Shimoga district.
Jagadish Shivappa Shettar is a Former Chief Minister of Karnataka belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who was the 21st Chief Minister of Karnataka from 2012 to 2013. He has subsequently served as Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Earlier, he was the Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly during 2008-2009. Currently he represents Hubli-Dharwad Central Vidhan Sabha seat. On 20 August 2019 he was inducted as the Cabinet Minister for Large and medium scale industries excluding sugar and Public Enterprise department in the BJP Government led by B.S. Yediyurappa.
R. Ashoka is an Indian politician serving as the Minister for Revenue in the Government of Karnataka. He is also the Vice-Chairman for the Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority and the district in-charge minister for Bangalore rural. He has previously served as the 6th Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka. He has previously served as the Deputy Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Legislative Assembly, Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Transport under the BJP government. He has also served as the Minister of Health and Family Welfare under the coalition government of BJP and JDS. He is a six-time MLA for the Padmanabhanagar constituency.
Dr. C. N. Ashwathnarayan is an Indian politician currently serving as the 8th Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka. He is also the Minister of Higher Education, Information Technology and Biotechnology, Science and Technology and Skill development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood in the fourth Yediyurappa ministry. He is a Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the Malleshwaram constituency.
The 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election was held on 5 May 2013 to elect members from 223 constituencies in the Indian state of Karnataka. Five major political parties contested the election: Indian National Congress (INC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Janata Dal (Secular), B. S. Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) and B. Sriramulu's Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress (BSRCP). Though Karnataka has 224 assembly constituencies, elections were held only for 223 seats. 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%.
Laxmi Ravindra Hebbalkar is a politician of the Congress party, currently an assembly member in the Indian state of Karnataka since 2018.
Satish Laxmanrao Jarkiholi is an INC political activist and a Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing the Yemakanmardi constituency. He was the forest and environment minister in the H. D. Kumarswamy cabinet. He is a former minister of Small scale Industries and also was a Minister of Excise in the Siddaramaiah cabinet.
Sanjay Balaso Patil is an Indian Politician from the state of Karnataka. He is a two term member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
Ramesh Jarkiholi is an Indian politician and 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.
Pramod Malpe Madhwaraj is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress 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 Services Department, Fisheries from Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Department portfolio in the Government of Karnataka. He is the 10th richest minister in Karnataka to be sworn into the Karnataka Cabinet. he belong to Koli community of Karnataka.
Kandam Ramaiah Ramesh Kumar is an Indian politician who was the 16th speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from 25 May 2018 to 29 July 2019 and member of the Indian National Congress from the state of Karnataka.
Basavaraj Rayareddy is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress from the state of Karnataka.Rayareddy is a five-term member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and a one-term member of the 11th Lok Sabha.In June 2016 Rayareddy was inducted into the Siddaramaiah led government of Karnataka as a cabinet minister and was the Higher Education Minister.
Arabhavi Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly of Karnataka a south state of India. It is a segment of Belagavi Lok Sabha constituency.
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 2004-2008 where he represented Bagewadi constituency and from 2009-2013 he represented Belagavi Dakshin.
Gokak Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the 224 seats in Karnataka State Assembly in India. It is part of Belagavi Lok Sabha seat.
Bhimappa Gundappa Gadad is an RTI(Right To Information) activist and a small agriculturist who hails from Mudalgi town of Gokak taluk in Belgaum district. He has been a Whistleblower in many cases such as uncovering the amount of money spent on Prime minister Narendra Modi's foreign visits and also he exposed the arrears owed by politicians to government due to their over stay at government Bungalow as well as he was instrumental in making Karnataka Government admit that Yellur, Belgaum belongs to Karnataka.
Krishna was an Indian politician, former speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly and member of the Janata Dal (Secular) from the state of Karnataka. He was born in Kothamaranahally village. He died on 21 May 2021 in Mysore, Karnataka.
Vimalabai Jagadevarao Deshmukh who was also known as Vimalabai Deshmukh was an Indian politician who was a former Minister for Women and Child Welfare in the Government of Karnataka. She also served as a MLA to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1994 from Muddebihal constituency in Bijapur district, Karnataka.
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