Shakunthala Thimmappa Shetty (born 1 March 1947) is an Indian politician and a former member of the

legislative assembly of Karnataka 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 are ...

. Representing Puttur at the assembly, she was elected as a member from the

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 ...

first and 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 ...

in her second term. She retired from electoral politics following her defeat at the

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Career

Shetty joined the

after she was expelled from the

in May 2008.

Film

Shakunthala Shetty played the lead role in a

Tulu Tulu may refer to: People *Derartu Tulu (born 1972), Ethiopian long-distance runner *Walid Yacoubou (born 1997), Togolese footballer nicknamed "Tulu" India *Tulu calendar, traditional solar calendar generally used in the regions of southwest Kar ...

film ''

Kanchilda Baale ''Kanchilda Baale'' is a Tulu Language Film directed and produced by Raghunath Rai Kumbra. Charithra Hedge from Udupi has acted in the title role Kanchilda Baale. A film showing conflict between superstitions and beliefs of people highlights th ...

''.

References

1947 births Living people Tulu politicians Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka People from Dakshina Kannada district 21st-century Indian women politicians 21st-century Indian politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka Karnataka MLAs 2004–2007 Karnataka MLAs 2013–2018 Women members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Tulu women politicians {{Karnataka-INC-politician-stub