Basavaraj Rayareddy

Basavaraj Rayareddy

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Basavaraj Rayareddy Biography

Basavaraj Rayareddy is an Indian politician from the state of Karnataka who has served as a member of Karnataka legislative assembly and state minister. He is also a former parliamentarian who was a member of 11th Lok Sabha. He served as Higher Education Minister in Siddaramaiah led government of Karnataka. He was inducted to cabinet in 2016. Apart from a politician, he is also an agriculturalist and lawyer by profession. He belongs to Indian National Congress and represented Yelburga constituency of Koppal district in the previous legislative elections. Formerly he was associated with Janata Dal party. He has more than 30 years of experience in politics.

 

Basavaraj Rayareddy was born on 6 September 1956 in Talakal, Koppal, Karnataka. He got into active politics in the 1980s, and has more than 3 decades of experience in this field. He worked with Janata Dal in the early 1980s and by the late 1980s, he moved to the Janata Dal (United). He joined the Indian National Congress in the early 2000s.

 

He got elected to state assembly for the first time in 1985 on Janata Dal ticket. In the 1989 Karnataka Legislative Assembly, he got re-elected on Janata Dal ticket again. In 1996 he joined Lok Sabha as a representative of Janata Dal. He unsuccessfully contested next two general elections on Janata Dal ticket and later joined Congress.

 

He was defeated by Achar Halappa Basappa of the BJP in 2018 state assembly elections. He lost by a margin of 13,000 votes. As many as 16 ministers in the outgoing Siddaramaiah government, the Chief Minister and Speaker Krishnappa Koliwad have also lost the elections. While Basappa got 79072 votes, the Congress minister secured 65,754 votes. Rayareddy had won from here by a margin of just 169 votes earlier.

Published: January 17, 2019

Updated: January 17, 2019

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