Channabasappa Mahalingappa Udasi (1937–2021) was an Indian politician from Karnataka, who was once with Janata Dal, and later with Bharatiya Janata Party at the time of his death. He joined BJP in 2004. Later he had left BJP briefly and joined Yediyurappa's Karnataka Janata Paksha in 2013. Udasi contested every Karnataka Vidhan Sabha election from Hangal (constituency) from 1983 to 2018. He was elected in 1983, 1985, 1994, 2004, 2008 and 2018. He lost in 1989, 1999, 2013, each time to

Manohar Tahasildar Manohar Tahsildar (b 1946) is an Indian politician from the state of Karnataka. Career Tahsildar is a member of the Indian National Congress. He contested every Karnataka Vidhan Sabha election from 1978 to 2013 from Hangal constituency, winning ...

. Five of his six wins were gained by defeating Tahasildar. Udasi was the minister of rural development and Panchayati raj, minister of minor irrigation, minister for handlooms and textiles, and public works department under three Chief Ministers J. H. Patel, Ramakrishna Hegde and

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. Udasi died from age related factors aged 84.

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