Arbail Shivaram Hebbar is an Indian politician who is the Minister of the Labour Department of

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

since 6 February 2020. He was elected to the

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from

Yellapura Yellapura is a town in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India.It is a major trading centre for Arecanut, which is the primary crop grown in the villages surrounding the town. Approximately 90% of the population of Yellapura are farmers ...

in the

2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election The 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election was held on 12 May 2018 in 222 constituencies to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. The election was postponed in Jayanagar and Rajarajeshwari Nagar, following the death of the MLA B. N. Vijaya ...

as a member of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

but switched to

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

in 2019 and won the by-elections in December 2019.

Early life

Hebbar was born and brought up in the Uttara Kannada district of the southern small village called Shivakar on the banks of river Gangavati in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Political career

In 1983, he was elected to Yellapur APMC and this was his maiden entry to public life. In 2008, he contested the Yellapur-Mundgod Assembly elections as a Congress candidate against V S Patil but lost.

References

1957 births Living people Janata Dal (Secular) politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka People from Uttara Kannada Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023 {{Karnataka-BJP-politician-stub