Murugesh Rudrappa Nirani (born 18 August 1965), is an Indian entrepreneur and politician serving as the Minister of Large and Medium Industries of Karnataka from 4 August 2021. He is a third-term

Member of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. S ...

(MLA) of Bilgi,

Bagalkot Bagalakote, is a city in the state of Karnataka, India, which is also the headquarters of Bagalakote district. It is situated on branch of River Ghataprabha about 481 km (299 mi) northwest of state capital Bengaluru, 410 km (2 ...

and is a minister in the

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. He was honored with Doctorate ( D. Litt.) Award for his social work from KIMSD University of Maharashtra on 5 December 2021.

Early life and education

Nirani was born in an agrarian family, to Rudrappa and Sushilamma, at Basav Hanchal in

Bilagi : ''See Bilgi for disambiguation'' Bilagi is a panchayat town and taluka in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. It is located at a distance of 30 km from the district headquarters of Bagalkote. The main occupation of people in this ...

taluk of

Bagalkot district Bagalakote district(), is an administrative district in the Indian state of Karnataka. The district headquarters is located in the town of Bagalakote. The district is located in northern Karnataka and borders Belgaum, Gadag, Koppal, Raichur an ...

. He completed his

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. in

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and gained a diploma in

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from

Bombay University The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed ...

. He became one of the foremost engineers from his village.

Entrepreneurial career

Nirani set up his first sugar factory in

, with a capacity of crushing 500 tonnes of sugarcane per day. He has received the ''Make in India award'' on 24 December 2014. He is also the chairman of Nirani Group, which includes Nirani Sugars Ltd., Sai Priya Sugars Ltd., MRN Cane Power India Ltd., Nirani Cements Pvt. Ltd., and Bilagi Sugar Mill Ltd. As of 2021, over 120,000 farmers benefit on the infrastructure created by MRN group and over 72,000 people are employed by the MRN Group. MRN group is also one of the largest producers of

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in India.

Political career

He joined the

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during his adolescence and has been a very crucial part of his political ideology. He says that he derives inspiration from the ideologies of the Maharaja of Mysore,

Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV (Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar; 4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the twenty-fourth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore, from 1902 until his death in 1940. He is popularly called ''Rajarshi'' ( sa, rājarṣi, lit ...

. Nirani worked as a grassroot worker of the BJP in

North Karnataka North Karnataka is a geographical region in Deccan plateau from elevation that constitutes the region of the Karnataka state in India and the region consists of 13 districts. It is drained by the Krishna River and its tributaries the Bhi ...

. He contested his first election to

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from Biligi in 2004 and won with a landslide victory. On 30 May 2008, Nirani was elevated as the cabinet Minister of Large and Medium Scale Industries. He was again sworn in as the Minister of Mines and Geology in the

Fourth Yediyurappa ministry B. S. Yediyurappa formed his fourth ministry (Council of Ministers) in July 2019 in Karnataka, a state in South India, after the INC-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government collapsed due to defections to the BJP. The ministry had 33 minister ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nirani, Murugesh Living people University of Mumbai alumni 1965 births 21st-century Indian businesspeople State cabinet ministers of Karnataka People from Bagalkot district Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka Karnataka MLAs 2008–2013 Karnataka MLAs 2004–2007 Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023