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Anna Vinayachandra
Anna Vinayachandra is an Ex-Legislative council, MLC from Panchayati Raj constituency of Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka. He is a social activist, political activist and thinker. He was associated with Bharatiya Janata Party but came out of party politics and now works independently. Political career and reforms Before becoming Legislative council, MLC, Anna Vinayachandra was Karnataka State organizing secretary and State General Secretary for Karnataka BJP twice. Being a huge fan of strengthening panchayti System by decentralization and internal democracy within political party, he started to bring reforms within BJP. He also questioned the communal agenda of BJP which raised eyebrows of conservative BJP leaders, leading to the denial of BJP ticket to contest council polls the next time and was later marginalized from active party involvement. In 2007-08 Karnataka State election, he floated an organization called Swabhimana Vedike (meaning, platform for self-respect) in Puttur, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karnataka Legislative Council
The Karnataka Legislative Council is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Karnataka state in South Western India. Karnataka is one of the six states in India, where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses: the Legislative Assembly, the Legislative Council and the Governor. The Karnataka Legislative Council is a permanent body comprising 75 members. History It was established as the Mysore Legislative Council in 1907 (under Regulation I of 1907) in the Princely State of Mysore with a view to creating a body composed of a certain number of non-official persons with practical experience and knowledge of local conditions and requirements to assist government in making laws and regulations. In addition to the Dewan, President and the Members of Council, who were ''ex-officio'' members, at that time the Council consisted of not less than 10 and not more than 15 additional members to be nominated by the government, out of which not less than two-fifths w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |