Narasimha Naik
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Shorapur MLA and chairman of Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board Narasimha Naik (Raju Gowda) began his political profession from the zilla panchayat. He grew to become an MLA for the primary time in 2004 on Kannada Nadu Party ticket as a lone contestant who gained the election then.
To start with and having no political background, he contested the zilla panchayat elections from Kodekal constituency in Shorapur taluk on Congress ticket and gained. He was a shut follower of the previous MLA Raja Venkatappa Nayak.
But, he got here out of the Congress and straight contested the Assembly election in 2004 on Kannada Nadu Party ticket and acquired elected on the age of 25 to turn into the youngest legislator then.
Since then, there was political rivalry between Mr. Narasihma Naik and Mr. Venkatappa Nayak in the constituency. And, each are contesting the elections on their private power fairly than on the get together identification.
In 2008, Mr. Naik joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and contested the election towards Mr. Venkatappa Nayak and gained it by a margin of 4,581 votes. After sure political improvement on the State degree when the previous Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa shaped the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP), Mr. Naik joined the Janata Dal(S) and contested the election towards the identical Mr. Venkatappa Nayak of the Congress in 2013 and defeated him by a margin of 4,075 votes.
When he misplaced the 2013 election, he joined the BJP and contested the election in 2018 towards Mr. Venkatappa Nayak and gained with a margin of twenty-two,568 votes. However, he failed to get a ministerial berth beneath Mr. Yediyurappa and likewise beneath Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. But, the BJP authorities made him Chairman of Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board.
Again, a fierce fight is expected between Mr. Naik, if he is fielded once more, and Mr. Venkatappa Nayak, conventional opponents, in the upcoming Assembly elections making Shorapur a excessive voltage constituency in the district.
