Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri
Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri is an Indian politician who is the 17th and current Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He is the member of Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka. He is six-term MLA from Sirsi.
He served as the Minister for Primary and Secondary Education in the Bharatiya Janata Party Government of Karnataka.
He completed his B.Com from Karnatak University, Dharwad. He was an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad office bearer during his college days and was an influential students union leader.
He represented the Ankola Vidhan Sabha constituency for 3 terms: 1994–99, 1999–04 and 2004–2008. After the delimitation process, he shifted to the newly created Sirsi constituency and won the seat in 2008, 2013 and 2018 elections. He served as MLA for 5 terms in his political career & renowned as a very disciplined politician.
