Shobha Karandlaje


Shobha Monappa Karandlaje is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Karnataka, India and current Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Udupi Chikmagalur. She was a cabinet minister in the Government of Karnataka. She is a close confidant to Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.
Hailing from Puttur in Coastal Karnataka, Shobha became associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh at a very early age, one of the many women full-time workers of the Sangh parivar. When she decided to join politics, the RSS gave her the initial thrust.
She served the Bharatiya Janata Party organisation in various capacities before being elected as an MLC in 2004. She was elected as MLA from Yeswanthpur, Bangalore in May 2008 and was appointed as the minister for rural development and Panchayat Raj in the B S Yeddyurappa govt.
She was lauded for her performance as the RDPR minister and came to be known as a good administrator. She resigned in 2009 due to a political crisis but was re-instated in 2010 and was entrusted with the energy portfolio.. She had resigned from BJP and Joined KJP formed by Ex Chief Minister of Karnataka Mr.BS Yeddyurappa in the year 2013. And was appointed as KJP Working President. She was the power minister in the Jagadish Shettar ministry and also had the additional charge of the food and civil supplies department.
She contested the 2014 Indian general election from Udupi Chikmagalur constituency and won by a margin of 1.81 lakh votes. In 2019 General elections she won consistently for second time gaining 7,18,916 adding +6.26 percentage of votes contesting from Udupi Chikmagalur.

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