B. Sriramulu

B. Sriramulu (born 8 August 1971) is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Lok Sabha representing Bellary Lok Sabha constituency. He was a member of the current Karnataka legislative assembly representing Bellary Rural Constituency. 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 is the seventh child from among four brothers and four sisters.

Career

Sriramulu at a function, first top left.

His political journey began as a Councillor from Devi Nagar in the year 1996.

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.

He was Tourism, Textile, Civil Aviation & Infrastructure Minister.

In September 2011, he resigned as an MLA and later quit the BJP 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 (BSR Congress).^[3] However in March 2014 he again joined BJP and contested Loksabha election from Bellary as a BJP candidate.^[4]

References

External links

• B. Sriramulu - Health and Family Welfare Department excluding Medical Education at the Karnataka Legislative Assembly

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Karnataka State 15th LS Members 17th LS Members GE 2014 P. C. Gaddigoudar P. C. Mohan D V Sadananda Gowda D. K. Suresh Ananth Kumar Suresh Angadi B. Sriramulu Bhagwanth Khuba Ramesh Jigajinagi R. Dhruvanarayana Veerappa Moily Prakash Babanna Hukkeri B N Chandrappa Nalin Kumar Kateel G.M. Siddeswara Pralhad Joshi Mallikarjun Kharge H. D. Devegowda Shivakumar Udasi K H Muniyappa Karadi Sanganna Amarappa C S Puttaraju Prathap Simha B V Nayak B. S. Yeddyurappa Muddahanumegowda S P Shobha Karandlaje Anant Kumar Hegde Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from States: AP BH CT GA GJ HR HP JK JH KL KA MP MH OR PB RJ TN TS UP UT WB Northeast: AR AS MN ML MZ NL SK TR Union Territories: AN CH DN DD LD DL PY

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