B. Sriramulu

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B. Sriramulu
Cabinet Minister Government of Karnataka
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 August 2019
Ministry	Term
Minister of Transport Minister of Tribal Welfare	4 August 2021 - incumbent
Minister of Social Welfare	12 October 2020 - 28 July 2021
Minister of Health & Family Welfare	20 August 2019 - 12 October 2020
Minister of Backward Classes Welfare	27 September 2019 - 12 October 2020
In office 7 June 2008 – 4 August 2011
Ministry	Term
Minister of Health & Family Welfare	7 June 2008 - 4 August 2011
In office 18 February 2006 – 8 October 2007
Ministry	Term
Minister of Tourism	18 February 2006 - 8 October 2007
Minister of Textiles	18 February 2006 - 25 January 2007
Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2018
Preceded by	Tippaswamy.S
Constituency	Molakalmuru
In office 2004–2014
Preceded by	Diwakar Babu
Succeeded by	Gopalkrishna K
Constituency	Bellary(AS)
Member of Parliament Lok Sabha
In office 2014–2018
Preceded by	J. Shantha, BJP
Succeeded by	V. S. Ugrappa, INC
Constituency	Bellary(LS)
Personal details
Born	(1971-08-08) 8 August 1971 (age 50) Ballari, Mysore State, India
Political party	BJP
Other political affiliations	Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress (2011–2014)
Spouse(s)	Lakshmi
Children	4

Ballari Sriramulu (born 8 August 1971) 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 (2008-2011 and August 2019 to October 2020) 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.

Early life[]

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 among four brothers and four sisters.^{[citation needed]}

Career[]

In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections Sriramulu worked as a local aide for Sushma Swaraj, who contested from Bellary Lok Sabha constituency, when she contested against the Congress giant Sonia Gandhi, to give a fierce fight and lose at a close margin.^[1] With the support of Sriramulu and Janardhan Reddy, she later won the election from the same constituency in the next general elections.

In the 2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election he was elected from the Bellary constituency, where BJP had their first chance to form the government independently under the leadership of B. S. Yediyurappa. He later served as the Minister for health and family welfare for around 3 years in the Karnataka government. In September 2011, he resigned his post as the cabinet minister and also from the post of the MLA and he later quit the BJP, accusing and owing to alleged humiliation shouted out at his friend and mentor and jailed the former tourism minister Gali Janardhan Reddy for acquiring illegal wealth from various sources without documentation.^[2]

Subsequently, with much competition and considering it to be a prestige, he contested as an Independent candidate again from the Bellary Rural constituency and also won.^[3] He then floated a regional party, Badavara Shramikara Raithara Congress or BSR Congress.^[4] He also announced that his party is going to contest from all the constituencies in the 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. Though his party did not manage to win many of the seats, it gave a major setback to BJP, by dividing the vote share mainly in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region, and shut the seat share to only 40 seats for the BJP.^[5]

After his party faced the election defeat in 2013, he decided to merge his party with the BJP, saying that he and his party are keen to work, to bring Narendra Modi to power in the 2014 Indian general elections. In March 2014 he again joined BJP and contested Lok Sabha election from Bellary where he slidingly won the seat^{[6][needs update]}

He is BJP Karnataka, state vice-president. B. Sriramulu was health, tourism Bellary district minister in the Yeddyurappa government.

In 2018, Karnataka assembly elections, Sriramulu contested from Molkalmuru and Badami. He won Molkalmuru, by a margin of 40,000 odd votes, bit lost the Badami seat by 1500 votes to the former chief minister Siddaramaiah. ^[7]

On 27 July 2018, Sriramulu called for a separate state for North Karnataka due to alleged "injustice" in that part of the state.^[8] After the coalition government led by H. D. Kumaraswamy lost its majority, paving the way to BJP to form the government he was inducted as a minister into the cabinet. He serves as Minister of Health and Family Welfare in the government.

References[]

External links[]

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