S. Ashwath Narayan Rao Ramadas is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is a four time

Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district (constituency) to the legislature of States of India, State government in the Indian system of government. From each constituency, the ...

from

Krishnaraja Assembly constituency Krishnaraja Assembly constituency is one of the 224 constituencies in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, having all the areas under the zone of Mysore South such as Ashokapuram, Vidyaranyapuram, JP Nagar, Srirampura, Mysore Pal ...

Mysore Mysore ( ), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of Mysore district and Mysore division. As the traditional seat of the Wadiyar dynasty, the city functioned as the capital of the ...

representing the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

Early life and education

Ramadas was born in

, Karnataka. He is the son of late Ashwath Narayan Rao. He completed his Bachelor of Arts at a college affiliated with

Mysore University The University of Mysore is a public state university in Mysore, Karnataka, India. The university was founded during the reign of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV and the premiership of Sir M. Visvesvaraya. The university is recognised by t ...

in 1977. He heads a

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called ''Aasare Foundation'' in

Career

Ramadas became an MLA for the first time winning the

1994 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election The 1994 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election took place in two phases on 26 November and 1 December 1994 in all the 224 legislative assembly constituencies in the Indian State of Karnataka. The Janata Dal emerged victorious winning 115 seats ...

. In 1994, he polled 28,190 votes and defeated his nearest rival, M. Vedantha Hemmige of Janata Dal by a margin of 9,363 votes. He retained the seat for BJP winning again in the

1999 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election The 1999 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election took place in October 1999 in 224 constituencies in Karnataka, India. The elections were conducted to elect the government in the state of Karnataka for the next five years. The Indian National ...

defeating M. K. Somashekar, also of JDS, by a margin of 9,752 votes. However, he lost the 2004 Assembly election to Somashekar. He won again in the 2008 Assembly election defeating the same opponenet, Somashekar, by a margin of 19,422 votes. Following the historic victory of the BJP in

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 was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa in May 2008. In 2010, he was appointed a Cabinet minister in the

Yeddyurappa Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa (born 27 February 1943), often referred to by his initials BSY, is an Indian politician. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he has served as the chief minister of Karnataka for four terms, an ...

government and was entrusted with the Medical Education portfolio. He continued in the same post in the

D.V. Sadananda Gowda Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda (born 18 March 1953) is an Indian politician who served as the Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers of India in the Second Modi ministry from 14 November 2018 to 7 July 2021. He also served as the Mi ...

government. He was also the district in-charge minister for Mysore district from 2008 to 2013. In 2013, he contested from Krishnaraja constituency again but lost to M. K. Somashekar, who won on INC ticket this time. However, he won the 2018 Assembly election. In 2014, he attempted suicide after a woman named Premkumari, a widow with two children, exposed their affair to the media.

References

External links

S. A. Ramadas affidavit
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramadas, SA 1959 births Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka Kannada people Politicians from Mysore State cabinet ministers of Karnataka Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023 Karnataka MLAs 2008–2013 Karnataka MLAs 1999–2004 Karnataka MLAs 1994–1999