Murugesh Rudrappa Nirani (born 18 August 1965), is an Indian industrialist and politician serving as the Minister of Large and Medium Industries of Karnataka from 4 August 2021. He is a third-term

Member of the Legislative Assembly A Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected to sit in a legislative assembly. The term most commonly refers to members of the legislature of a federated state or an autonomous region, but is also used for several nation ...

(MLA) of Bilgi,

Bagalkot Bagalkote, is a city in the state of Karnataka, India, which is also the headquarters of Bagalkot district. It is situated on branch of River Ghataprabha, The population of the urban agglomeration was 111,933"District Census Handbook – Guntu ...

and is a minister 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 ...

. He was honored with Doctorate (

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.) Award for his social work from KIMSD University of Maharashtra on 5 December 2021.

Early life and education

Nirani was born in an agrarian family, to Rudrappa and Sushilamma, at Basav Hanchal in

Bilagi : ''See Bilgi (disambiguation), Bilgi for disambiguation'' Bilagi is a panchayat town and taluka in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. It is located at a distance of 30 km from the district headquarters of Bagalkote. The main occup ...

taluk of

Bagalkot district Bagalkot district (), is an administrative district in the Indian state of Karnataka. The district headquarters is located in the town of Bagalkot. The district is located in northern Karnataka and borders Belgaum district, Belgaum, Gadag distr ...

. He completed his B.E. in

civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

and gained a diploma in

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from

Bombay University University of Mumbai is a public state university in Mumbai. It is one of the largest university systems in the world with over 549,000 students on its campuses and affiliated colleges. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. It was est ...

. He became one of the foremost engineers from his village.

Entrepreneurial career

Nirani set up his first sugar factory in

, with a capacity of crushing 500 tonnes of sugarcane per day. He received the ''Make in India award'' on 24 December 2014. He is also the chairman of Nirani Group, which includes irani Sugars Ltd. ai Priya Sugars Ltd. MRN Cane Power India Ltd., irani Cements Pvt. Ltd. and ilagi Sugar Mill Ltd. As of 2021, over 120,000 farmers benefit from the infrastructure created by the MRN group and over 72,000 people are employed by the MRN Group. MRN group is also one of the largest producers of

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in India.

Political career

He joined the

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS,, ) is an Indian right-wing politics, right-wing, Hindutva, Hindu nationalist volunteer paramilitary organisation. It is the progenitor and leader of a large body of organisations called the Sangh Parivar ( ...

during his adolescence and has been a very crucial part of his political ideology. He says that he derives inspiration from the ideologies of the Maharaja of Mysore,

Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV (4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the twenty-fourth Maharaja of Mysore, reigning from 1902 until his death in 1940. Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV is popularly deemed a '' rajarshi'', or 'saintly king', a moniker with which Mah ...

. Nirani worked as a grassroot worker of the BJP in

North Karnataka North Karnataka (kannada: ಉತ್ತರ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ''Transliteration: Uttara Karnataka'') is a geographical region in Deccan plateau from elevation that constitutes the region of the Karnataka state in India and the region consi ...

. He contested his first election to

Karnataka Legislative Assembly The Karnataka Legislative Assembly (formerly the Mysore Legislative Assembly) is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of the six states in India where the state legislature ...

from Biligi in 2004 and won with a landslide victory. On 30 May 2008, Nirani was elevated as the cabinet Minister of Large and Medium Scale Industries. He was again sworn in as the Minister of Mines and Geology in the Fourth Yediyurappa ministry.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nirani, Murugesh Living people University of Mumbai alumni 1965 births 21st-century Indian businesspeople State cabinet ministers of Karnataka People from Bagalkot district Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka Karnataka MLAs 2008–2013 Karnataka MLAs 2004–2007 Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023