N. H. Shivashankara Reddy

N. H. Shivashankara
Minister of Agriculture, Government of Karnataka
In office
6 June 2018 – 25 July 2019
Preceded byKrishna Byre Gowda
Succeeded byLaxman Savadi
ConstituencyGauribidanur
Deputy Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
In office
31 May 2013 – 18 May 2018
Preceded byG.H Tippareddy
Succeeded byM. Krishna Reddy
ConstituencyGauribidanur
Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
for Gauribidanur
In office
1999–2023
Preceded byN. Jyothi Reddy
Succeeded byK H Puttaswamy Gowda
Personal details
Born (1954-09-24) 24 September 1954 (age 70)
H. Nagasandra, Gowribidanur
Political partyIndian National Congress (From 2004)
Other political
affiliations		Independent (Till 2004)
SpouseSujathamma
Children2
EducationBachelor of Science in Agriculture

Nagasandra Hanumantha Shivashankara Reddy is an Indian politician who is a former Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the INC. He is the former deputy speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly[1][2] and 2018 Agriculture minister of Karnataka.He was a Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Gauribidanur legislative constituency for five consecutive terms and for the sixth time he contested unsuccessfully.

Political career

Reddy was first elected to the Karnataka legislative assembly in 1999 as an independent candidate after being denied an INC ticket. Prior to this, he had served at the village council level. In the subsequent three State legislative assembly elections, Reddy contested as an INC nominee and won each time.[3][1]

In July 2013, he was elected the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly in a unanimous election upon being the only candidate to file the nomination papers.[1]He was denied entry into Siddaramaiah's cabinet inspite of serving as an MLA for a long time.

He was the Minister for Agriculture in H D Kumarswamy's second cabinet.

In 2023 General Elections to Legislative Assembly, Gauribidanur constituency, he lost by a margin of about 37,000 votes to K H Puttaswamy Gowda(Independent).

Personal life and education

Reddy was born on 24 September 1954 in a Vokkaliga family[4] in H. Nagasandra, a village in Gowribidanur taluk,[5] (in present-day Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka) to Subhashanamma and N. S. Hanumantha Reddy. An affluent family, it consisted of multiple independence activists. Reddy holds a bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Shivashankara Reddy elected Deputy Speaker". The Hindu. 19 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Shivashankara Reddy is Deputy speaker of Assembly". Daiji World. 13 July 2013.
  3. ^ Belagali, Rahul (18 January 2013). "Reddys get ready for polls in Gauribidanur". Deccan Herald.
  4. ^ "Vokkaliga leaders at loggerheads over Cabinet berth". Deccan Herald.
  5. ^ "N. H. Shivashankara Reddy bio" (PDF). kla.kar.nic.in. Retrieved 3 February 2018.