Ramakrishna Mahabaleshwar Hegde was an Indian politician who served as the third Chief Minister of Karnataka for three terms between 1983 and 1988. He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1957,1962,1967,1983,1985 and 1989,and to the Rajya Sabha for two terms,1978–83 and 1996–2002. He also served as Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Union government (1998–1999).
Sarekoppa Bangarappa was an Indian politician who was the 6th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1990 to 1992.
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.
Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He also represented the 14th Lok Sabha. He represents the Bagalkot constituency of Karnataka since 2004 and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.
Suresh Channabasappa Angadi was an Indian politician who served as the Union Minister of State for Railways of India from 30 May 2019 to 23 September 2020. He was Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from 2004 to September 2020. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Karnataka.
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.
Belgaum,is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Indian state of Karnataka.
Daggubati Purandeswari is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. She is the president of Bharatiya Janata Party,Andhra Pradesh. She is currently serving as a Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha representing the Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency.
Amalner Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency is located in the Jalgaon district.
Ashok Nagar is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes since 2008,following the delimitation of the Legislative Assembly constituencies. It came into existence in 1957,as one of the Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state.
Laxmi Narayan Yadav is a socialist leader and former member of parliament (MP) of Bhartiya Janata Party. He has won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Sagar. He is two times MLA from Surkhi assembly seat of Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh. First time,he was elected in 1977 from Surkhi from Janata Party. He has defeated Vitthalbhai Patel who was a Congress leader and Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate famed Bollywood lyricist and poet and industrialist. During the same tenure in 1978 –1980 he served as Minister for Higher Education,in Government of Madhya Pradesh in the Sakhlecha ministry. Mr. Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha was the then chief minister. Second time,in 1989,Mr. Yadav again defeated Patel from the same constituency.
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.
Amarsinh Vasanthrao Patil is an Indian politician,and member of 13th Lok Sabha. He was runner up for 13th Lok Sabha election and 15th Lok Sabha elections from Belgaum. Before being elected to Lok Sabha,he was the President Belgaum district Zila Parishad. He is the son of V.L. Patil,a politician and freedom fighter. His brother Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil is an elected member of the legislative council and was elected independently with a record victory margin that was the highest in the state since independence. He was elected director of the Karnataka Milk Federation and then elected as the chairman. Vivekrao is a member of the Belgaum Chamber of Commerce,a chairman of the Raibag Sugar Factory and a chairman of the Belgaum District Co-operative bank. He runs a chain of over 50 educational institutions in Karnataka,Maharashtra and Goa. He is also a writer and among other things has written several novels. One of them,Dawn to Dust,was a best selling romantic tragedy novel in Europe and India. A Bollywood movie (Dhadkan) was based on it.
Uchagaon was one of the 224 vidhan sabha seats in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly,in India. It was part of Belagavi Lok Sabha constituency,which is adjacent to Chikkodi Lok Sabha constituency.
Belgaum Rural Assembly Seat is one of 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka state,in India. It is one of the eight constituencies which make up Belgaum Lok Sabha constituency. The constituency came into existence for the second time when the assembly map was redrawn in 2008. Prior to that most of its area was under the now-defunct Uchagaon Assembly constituency and Hire Bagewadi Assembly constituency.
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.
Mangala Suresh Angadi is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament from Belagavi parliamentary constituency of Karnataka state. She is the first Woman Member of Parliament from Belagavi.
Anjali Nimbalkar is an Indian physician and politician. She is a senior leader and spokesperson of the Indian National Congress (INC). She represented Khanapur of Belgaum district at the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from 2018 to 2023. She has been announced as the INC candidate for the Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha constituency in the 2024 Indian general election.
Priyanka Satish Jarkiholi is an Indian politician from Karnataka. She is a first-time MP from Chikkodi Lok Sabha Constituency of Belgavi District. She represents Indian National Congress. She won the 2024 Indian general election in Karnataka. She is youngest politician in India.
