Halady Srinivas Shetty (born 6 April 1951) is a five-term MLA from

Kundapur Kundapra, officially Kundapura, is a town in the Udupi district of Karnataka state in India. This town was known as Coondapoor when it was part of the erstwhile South Canara district (1862–1947) of the Madras Presidency of British India. Pr ...

. He quit the

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in 2012 after he was invited by BJP to take oath as a minister and later insulting him by denial of a ministerial position, fought and won the 2013 election as an independent candidate without the support of any political party, and rejoined the party before the 2018 assembly election. He is called ''ಕುಂದಾಪುರದ ವಾಜಪೇಯಿ (Vajapayee of Kundapura)'' due to his simplicity.

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Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka Living people Karnataka MLAs 2008–2013 People from Udupi district Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023 Karnataka MLAs 1999–2004 Karnataka MLAs 2004–2007 Karnataka MLAs 2013–2018 1951 births {{Karnataka-BJP-politician-stub