Satish Laxmanrao Jarkiholi (born 1 June 1962) is an

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politician & mass leader of Belgavi who served as the Minister of Forest, Ecology and Environment, Government of Karnataka from 22 December 2018 to 23 July 2019. He is currently serving as the Member of

Karnataka Legislative Assembly The Karnataka Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of the six states in India where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses. The two houses ar ...

representing the Yemakanmardi constituency since 2008. He was the forest and environment minister in the H. D. Kumarswamy cabinet. He is a former minister of Small scale Industries and also was a Minister of Excise in the

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Life

Satish Jarkiholi was born in a prominent sugarcane-growing family in Belagavi district. His brothers

Ramesh Jarkiholi Ramesh Jarkiholi (born 1 May 1960) an Indian politician, former minister of Water Resources in the Government of Karnataka, between 2020 and 2021. As member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he represents Gokak in the Karnataka Legislative A ...

and

Balachandra Jarkiholi Balachandra Laxmanrao Jarkiholi (b 1966) is an Indian politician who is the current MLA from Arabhavi, Belgaum district and chairman of Karnataka Milk Federation. He and his 4 brothers are all very active in local politics. Political career H ...

are both politicians and represent

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and

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legislative constituencies respectively.

Belgaum Lok Sabha constituency by-election,
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He unsuccessfully contested the 2021 by poll from

Belagavi Belgaum (ISO: ''Bēḷagāma''; also Belgaon and officially known as Belagavi) is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located in its northern part along the Western Ghats. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Belagavi ...

Lok sabha seat, vacated after the demise of incumbent MP

Suresh Angadi Suresh Channabasappa Angadi (1 June 195523 September 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the Union Minister of State for Railways of India from 30 May 2019 to 23 September 2020. He was Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from 2004 to Septe ...

, former Minister of State for Railways. He was defeated by

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(wife of

) with a margin of 5,240 votes.

was the first politician to defeat Satish Jarkiholi, in his political life spanning about 30 years.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jarkiholi, Satish People from Belgaum Living people Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka 1962 births Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023 Karnataka MLAs 2008–2013 Karnataka MLAs 2013–2018