Mallanagouda Basanagouda Patil (born 7 October 1964) is an Indian politician from

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and a member of

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representing Babaleshwar. He is currently serving as Cabinet Minister for Large & Medium Industries and Infrastructure Development in

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Early life and education

He is the elder son of Shri B.M.Patil, a politician and an educationist. He has completed graduation in Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering at the BLDEA's Vachana Pitamaha P G Halakatti College of Engineering.

Career

Social work

M.B. Patil has been involved in various social works including the distribution of school bags & books to the needy students, helping government schools in establishing smart classrooms, organizing plantation drives across Vijayapura district etc., through M B Patil foundation.

Political career

He is the President of BLDE Association. He belongs to the dominant Lingayat Community. Patil started his political career in 1991. He was allotted the Irrigation Ministry in

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’s cabinet in 2013. His work as the Irrigation Minister of Karnataka gave a new lease of life to various stalled irrigation projects across Karnataka.He is a former member of the

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and is being elected for the fifth time as a Member of the

. He was earlier the Minister for

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. He was allotted Home Ministry in December 2018 in

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’s cabinet. Having been seen as a clean-handed politician & hailing from the dominant

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community, he is considered to be one of the chief contenders for the post of

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of Karnataka in future.

References

External links

M. B. Patil at Myneta
* https://nocorruption.in/politician/m-b-patil/ * http://myneta.info/karnataka2013/candidate.php?candidate_id=7 {{DEFAULTSORT:Patil, M. B. State cabinet ministers of Karnataka 1964 births Living people Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka Lok Sabha members from Karnataka Karnataka MLAs 2008–2013 Karnataka MLAs 2013–2018 Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023 Karnataka MLAs 2023–2028 People from Bijapur district, Karnataka Lingayatism India MPs 1998–1999