Ravikumar Gowda Ganiga (born 1980), is an Indian politician from
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 ...
. He is a member of the
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
Mandya Assembly constituency
Mandya Assembly seat is one of the 224 seats in Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India. It is a segment of Mandya Lok Sabha constituency. Ravikumar Gowda is the current MLA from this constituency.
Members of Assembly
Mysore State
Karn ...
in
Mandya district
Mandya district is an administrative district of Karnataka, India. The district Mandya was carved out of larger Mysore district in the year 1939.
Mandya is the main town in Mandya district. As of 2011, the district population was 1,808,680 ...
. He represents
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...
Party and won the
2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Elections in Karnataka, Karnataka on 2023 elections in India, 10 May 2023 to elect all List of constituencies of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, 224 members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. T ...
.
Early life and education
Gowda was born in Mandya to L. Puttaswamy. He runs his own business. He completed his pre university course from Government Pre-University College,
Malleshwaram
Malleshwaram is a northwest neighbourhood and one of the zones of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike in Bengaluru, India. It was planned in 1889 after the great plague of 1898, developed as a suburb in 1892 and handed over to the city munici ...
, Bangalore.
Career
Gowda won the
2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Elections in Karnataka, Karnataka on 2023 elections in India, 10 May 2023 to elect all List of constituencies of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, 224 members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. T ...
from
Mandya Assembly constituency
Mandya Assembly seat is one of the 224 seats in Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India. It is a segment of Mandya Lok Sabha constituency. Ravikumar Gowda is the current MLA from this constituency.
Members of Assembly
Mysore State
Karn ...
representing
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...
. He polled 61,411 votes and defeated his nearest rival, B. R. Ramachandra of
Janata Dal (S)
{{Infobox Indian Political Party
, party_name = Janata Dal (Secular)
, party_logo =
, colorcode = {{party color, Janata Dal (Secular)
, abbreviation = JD(S)
, president = H. D. Deve Gowda
, founder ...
by a narrow margin of 2,019 votes.
References
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Living people
1980 births
Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka
Karnataka MLAs 2023–2028
People from Mandya district