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, also referred to by his nickname Siddu, is an Indian politician currently serving as the leader of the opposition in Karnataka Legislative Assembly since from 9 December 2019. He is a member of Congress Working Committee. Currently, he is a leader in the Indian National Congress party,
K. M. Eshwarappa is an Indian senior Bharatiya Janata Party politician who is the current Minister of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj of Karnataka since 20 August 2019. He was the 6th Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka from 12 July 2012 to 12 May 2013. He was Minister of State for Rural development and Panchayat Raj of Karnataka from 20 August 2019 to 26 July 2021. He is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka. He was the seventh Deputy Chief minister in the BJP government headed by Jagadish Shettar from 2012 to 2013. On 20 August 2019 he was inducted as a Cabinet Minister in the BJP government led by B.S. Yediyurappa. He served as Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council (2014-2018).
Haradanahalli Devegowda Kumaraswamy, known among followers as Kumaranna, is an Indian politician and businessman who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 23 May 2018 to 23 July 2019. He is a former president of the Karnataka State Janata Dal (Secular) and son of former Prime Minister of India H. D. Deve Gowda.
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa, often referred to by his initials BSY, is an Indian statesman who served as the 19th Chief Minister of Karnataka and currently serving as the Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Shikaripura constituency. He is also the only politician so far in Karnataka to have served four times as Chief Minister and three times as Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He is an MLA from Shikaripura constituency in Shimoga district, from where he has been elected eight times. He is popularly referred to as Raja Huli by the media and his followers.
G. Karunakara Reddy is an Indian politician from the state of Karnataka, who is the member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Harapanahalli assembly constituency.He was made Revenue Minister in B.S Yeddyurappa Cabinet.He was previously a member of the 14th Lok Sabha from the Bellary constituency as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Bellary, officially known as Ballari, is a major district in Karnataka. It is located at north-eastern part of Karnataka. This district belongs to Hyderabad-Karnataka. This district was one of the biggest districts in Karnataka until the Vijayanagara district was carved out of Bellary district in 2020.
Ballari Sriramulu is an Indian politician who is currently serving as Minister of Transport Department and Tribal Welfare of Karnataka from 4 August 2021. He was the Minister of Social Welfare Department of Karnataka from 12 October 2020 to 26 July 2021. He was member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Bellary. He is a member of the legislative assembly representing Molakalmuru Constituency in Chitradurga district. He is the Social Welfare minister in the Government of Karnataka. He served as a Health and Family welfare minister previously from also as a Minister of Backward class welfare from September 2019 to October 2020.He serves in the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by B. S. Yediyurappa.He served as a member of Lok Sabha from 2014-2018 from Bellary.
Venur Dhananjay Kumar Alva was a former Union and Cabinet minister of India and a former Member of Parliament from Mangalore. He was cabinet minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism in 1996, Union Minister of State for Finance from 1999 to 2000 and Union Minister of State for Textiles from 2000 to 2003. He was also one of the first few BJP MPs to be elected from south India, at a time when the Congress party's reach was at its peak.
Gali Janardhana Reddy is an Indian industrialist and politician affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
S.Ashwath Narayan Rao Ramadas is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Nitte Santosh Hegde is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India, former Solicitor General of India and was Lokayukta (ombudsman) for Karnataka State of India from 2006 to 2011.
Obulapuram Mining Company also known as OMC or OMCPL is an iron ore mining company located in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in India. The company is owned by the brothers, G. Karunakara Reddy, G. Janardhana Reddy and G. Somashekara Reddy, who were ministers in the Government of Karnataka. The company has been fighting charges of illegal mining in forest lands on the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border. OMCPL holds iron ore mining leases in 134 hectares in Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh and iron ore reserves in these leases are estimated to be around 100 million tonnes. OMCPL is also the promoter of a Bramhani Industries Limited, an iron and steel producer. JSW steel is said to be in talks for partial ownership of OMC.
The Belekeri port scam relates to 3.5 million tons of confiscated iron ore that was exported illegally from Belekeri port near Karwar in Karnataka. After Deputy Conservator of Forests R. Gokul seized the ore and the high court refused to permit it to be exported, a large part of it was surreptitiously exported from the port. After persistent protests and public pressure, Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa, who was balancing political considerations with control of corruption, admitted to an illegal iron-ore export racket at Belekeri Port involving 35 lakh metric tonnes of iron ore. It is said that the scam was worth an estimated 60,000 crore rupees.
Mining scam in India refers to a series of alleged widespread scams in various ore-rich states of India, which has generated controversy. Such issues span encroachment of forest areas, underpayment of government royalties, conflict with tribals regarding land-rights. The spill-over of the effects of legal mining into issues such as Naxalism and the distortion of the Indian political system by mixed politics and mining interests, has gained international attention.
Yerra Srilakshmi is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Srilakshmi was former Andhra Pradesh Secretary for Industries (including).Telangana government gave her the posting order on October 7, 2016, appointing as Chief Secretary of State Government Institutions, despite previous allegations and pending investigations for various involvement in controversial decisions, on approval by AP govt. She got the Special Chief Secretary post. In Dec'2020 she shifted from Telangana cadre to Andhra Pradesh cadre, albeit with questions asked about her previous involvement in various corruption issues and even being jailed for the same, being only let out on grounds of 'ill health'. She was posted as Secretary Municipal administration and urban development.
Laxman Sangappa Savadi is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the Member of Karnataka Legislative Council from 17 February 2020. He served as the 8th Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka and Minister of Transport of Karnataka, from 20 August 2019 to 28 July 2021, in the Fourth BS Yediyurappa ministry. He was Deputy Leader of the House in Karnataka Legislative Council. He had served as the Minister for Cooperation in the Second B.S.Yeddurappa Ministry and D. V. Sadananda Gowda Government. He was elected to the legislative assembly from Athani constituency in 2004, 2008 and 2013 as a BJP candidate. On 20 August 2019 he was inducted as the Cabinet Minister in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa. On 17 February 2020 he was elected as an MLC by securing 113 votes out of the 120 votes polled.
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%.
Anand Prithviraj Singh is an Indian politician who is currently serving as Minister of Tourism, Ecology and Environment of Karnataka since 04 August 2021. 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.
Keshava Reddy Sudhakar is an Indian politician serving as the Minister of Medical Education and Health of Karnataka from 6 February 2020. 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.