Basavaraj Shivalingappa Horatti is an Indian politician who is the current Chairman of the

Karnataka Legislative Council The Karnataka Legislative Council (formerly the Mysore Legislative Council) is the upper house of the state legislature of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of six Indian states with a bicameral legislature; the Legislative Assembly is the lower ho ...

from 21 December 2022, and its member since c. 1980. He has also previously once served as the Chairman of Karnataka Legislative Council from 9 February 2021 till 17 May 2022 and 21 June 2018 to 12 December 2018. He has been a longest-serving member of the Karnataka Legislative Council since 1980, winning eight consecutive terms. Horatti had previously served as the Minister for Primary Education and Minister for Small Savings in the

Government of Karnataka The Government of Karnataka, abbreviated as GoK or GoKA, formerly known as Government of Mysore (1956–1974), is a democratically elected state body with the governor as the ceremonial head to govern the Southwest Indian state of Karnataka ...

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Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Janata Dal (Secular) politicians Karnataka MLCs 2014–2020 Chairs of the Karnataka Legislative Council 1946 births Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka {{Karnataka-JDS-politician-stub