Arbail Shivaram Hebbar is an Indian politician who is the Minister of the Labour Department of

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

since 6 February 2020. He was elected to the

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from Yellapura in the

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as a member of the

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but switched to

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in 2019 and won the by-elections in December 2019.

Early life

Hebbar was born and brought up in the Uttara Kannada district of the southern small village called Shivakar on the banks of river Gangavati in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Political career

In 1983, he was elected to Yellapur APMC and this was his maiden entry to public life. In 2008, he contested the Yellapur-Mundgod Assembly elections as a Congress candidate against V S Patil but lost.

References

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