Balachandra Laxmanrao Jarkiholi (b 1966) is an Indian politician who is the current MLA from Arabhavi, Belagavi district and chairman of
Karnataka Milk Federation
The Karnataka Co–Operative Milk Producers' Federation Limited (KMF) is a dairy cooperative from Karnataka, India, which sells products such as milk, curd, ghee, butter, ice cream, Chocolate, chocolates, and Sweets from the Indian subcontinent, ...
. He and his 4 brothers are all very active in local politics.
Political career
He was elected to the
Karnataka Legislative Assembly
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly (formerly the Mysore Legislative Assembly) is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of the six states in India where the state legislature ...
from
Arabhavi constituency in
Belgaum
Belgaum (Kannada ISO 15919, ISO: ''Bēḷagāma'', ), officially known as Belagavi (also Belgaon), is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located near its northern western border in the Western Ghats. It is the administrative headquarters ...
district in 2004 and 2008 on a
Janata Dal (Secular)
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, abbreviation = JD(S)
, president = H. D. Deve Gowda
, founder ...
ticket. In 2013 and 2018 he fought the election on a
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...
ticket and won again from Arabhavi.
Ministry
He was a Minister in the
H.D. Kumaraswamy led 2004 and 2008 Government.
References
External links
Karnataka Legislative Assembly
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Living people
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka
Karnataka MLAs 2004–2007
Karnataka MLAs 2008–2013
Karnataka MLAs 2013–2018
Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023
Karnataka MLAs 2023–2028
1966 births
Janata Dal (Secular) politicians