Gali Somashekhara Reddy is an Indian politician from the state 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 ...

associated with the

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party. He is an ( MLA)

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2 times of Karnataka representing the

Bellary Assembly constituency Ballari (formerly Bellary) is a city in the Ballari district in state of Karnataka, India. Ballari houses many steel plants such as JSW Vijayanagar, one of the largest in Asia. Ballari district is also known as the ‘Steel city of South Ind ...

for the

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. He was also the chairman of

Karnataka Milk Federation The Karnataka Co–Operative Milk Producers' Federation Limited (KMF) is a dairy cooperative from Karnataka, India, which sells products such as milk, curd, ghee, butter, ice cream, Chocolate, chocolates, and Sweets from the Indian subcontinent, ...

. He is a member of the Reddy family that owns the

Obulapuram Mining Company Obulapuram Mining Company also known as OMC or OMCPL is an iron ore mining company located in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in India. The company is owned by the brothers, G. Karunakara Reddy, G. Janardhana Reddy and G. Somashekara Reddy, who ...

with

iron ore Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from dark grey, bright yellow, or deep purple to rusty red. The iron is usually found in the f ...

mining interests in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, and that has been facing allegations of

illegal mining Illegal mining is mining activity that is undertaken without state permission. Illegal mining is the extraction of precious metals/rocks without following the proper procedures to participate in legal mining activity. These procedures include pe ...

in forest lands. His brothers G. Janardhana Reddy and G. Karunakara Reddy had been ministers in the Karnataka state government led by CM B. S. Yeddyurappa of the BJP. After D. V. Sadananda Gowda of the BJP took over as CM from Yeddyurappa following the Lokayukta report on illegal mining in 2011, Reddy was removed from the BJP's Karnataka state government ministry. Subsequently, Yeddyurappa broke away from the BJP to form the Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP) and the Reddy brothers joined up with

B. Sriramulu Ballari Sreeramulu (born 8 August 1971) is an Indian politician who served as Minister of Transport Department and Tribal Welfare of Government of Karnataka, Karnataka from 4 August 2021 till 13 May 2023. He was the Minister of Social Welfare D ...

to form the

BSR Congress The Badavara Shramikara Raithara (BSR) Congress was a political party based in Karnataka state. It was founded in 2011 by B. Sriramulu, a former minister in the Karnataka State Government. In the 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election ...

party.

Abetment of Judicial Bribery and Detention

The CBI is also investigating the bribing of Hyderabad Special Court judge Pattabhirama Rao to secure bail for G. Janardhana Reddy in the Obulapuram Mining Company case, by his family members including G. Karunakara Reddy. Further investigations by CBI implicated others, including a retired judge T.V. Chalapathi Rao, in the "Cash for Bail" scandal. He was later arrested and sent to judicial custody in the episode.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reddy, G. Somashekara Living people People from Ballari Karnataka MLAs 2008–2013 Karnataka MLAs 2013–2018 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka BSR Congress politicians Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023 1967 births