Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party
Constituency : Dharwad North
State : Karnataka
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 3 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 13
Father's Name : Shri Basavanneppa
Mother's Name : Smt. Chandrawwa
Date of birth : 02 Aug 1950
Profession : Publisher Trader
Positions held :
1989 Member, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly1991 Member, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly1999 Elected to 13th Lok Sabha2000-2004 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Agriculture
More Information :
Special Interests
Railway, Tourism and Transport Industry
Other Information
Started career as printer and publisher at the age of 16; owns a leading Kannada daily ‘Vijay Karnataka’, ‘Nootana’ (Kannada weekly) and ‘Bhavana’ (Kannada monthly); set up own transport company—‘Vijayanand Roadlines Ltd.’—a leading transport organisation at national level, having more than 1000 lorries, 150 Hi-tech luxury buses, 4,000 employees & have achieved turnover of Rs. 67.65 crores in two decades, with a network of 450 branches throughout the States of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi at present; and Member, Tobacco Board; conferred with the prestigious ‘Udyog Ratna’ award by the ‘Institute of Economic Studies’, New Delhi, 1994 and chosen by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England for inclusion in the ‘Dictionary of International Biography’; Member, Managing Committee, (i) All India Motor Transport Congress; and (ii) Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Invitee, State Executive Committee, B.J.P., Karnataka
