B. Sriramulu

B. Sriramulu
Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
15 May 2018
Constituency Molakalmuru
Personal details
Born (1971-08-08) 8 August 1971
Bellary, Mysore State, India
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Other political
affiliations		 Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress
(2011–2014)
Spouse(s) Lakshmi

B. Sriramulu (born 8 August 1971) is an Indian politician from the state of Karnataka and a member of the legislative assembly representing Molakalmuru Constituency in chitradurga district. He was Health and Family Welfare minister in the Government of Karnataka till September 2011.

Background

B. Sriramulu was born in Bellary, Karnataka on 8 August 1971 to B. Thimmappa, a railway employee and B Honnuramma, a housewife. He was the seventh child from among four brothers and four sisters.

Career

The 1999 Lok Sabha elections saw the emergence of B SriRamulu as Sushma Swaraj’s local aide. All though Swaraj and Sriramulu who contested the 1999 Assembly elections from Bellary city lost in the elections, for Him, both the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections that year proved to be a crucial stepping stone.

In September 2011, he resigned as an MLA and later quit the Bharatiya Janata Party owing to alleged humiliation meted out to his mentor and jailed former minister Gali Janardhan Reddy by the BJP leadership.[1] Subsequently, he contested as an Independent candidate again from the Bellary Rural constituency and won.[2] He then floated a regional party, Badava Shramika Raitha Congress or BSR Congress.[3] However, in March 2014 he again joined Bharatiya Janata Party and contested Loksabha election from Bellary as a BJP candidate in which he won.And He is contesting in karnataka elections for assembly in 2018.[4]

In 2018 Karnataka assembly elections, Sriramulu contested from Molkalmuru and Badami. He won Molkalmuru while lost Badami by a margin of 3000 votes to incumbent chief minister Siddaramaiah [5]

On 27 July 2018, Sriramulu called for a separate state for North Karnataka due to alleged "injustice" in that part of the state.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Reddy brothers's shock to BJP: Sreeramulu quits party in Karnataka - India - DNA
  2. ↑ Bellary bypoll: Ruling BJP loses deposit, rebel Sriramulu wins - Times Of India
  3. ↑ Sriramulu to roll out BSR Party - Times Of India
  4. ↑ http://www.ndtv.com/elections/article/election-2014/bs-sriramulu-re-joins-bjp-says-sushma-swaraj-like-my-mother-495787
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bjp-mla-demands-for-a-separate-state-for-north-karnataka-5279854/
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