Ramesh Jigajinagi

Ramesh Jigajinagi

MP
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
Preceded by	Basangouda Patil (Yatnal)
Constituency	Bijapur
In office 1998-2009
Preceded by	Ratnamala Dhareshwar Savanoor
Succeeded by	Ramesh Katti
Constituency	Chikkodi
Personal details
Born	(1952-06-28) 28 June 1952 Bijapur, Karnataka, Karnataka
Political party	BJP
Spouse(s)	Shobha
Children	2 sons
Residence	Bijapur, Karnataka, Karnataka
Religion	Hinduism
As of 23 September, 2006 Source:

Ramesh Jigajinagi (born 28 June 1952) is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Bijapur constituency of Karnataka and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Political career

Ramesh Jigajinagi was born on 28 June 1952 in Atharga village of Bijapur District in Karnataka to Chandappa and Bhoramma Jigajinagi. He is married to Shoba and has two sons. He completed his graduation from BLDEA's New Arts College, Bijapur in the faculty of Arts and later earned his master's degree as well.^[1] Ramesh hails from a scheduled class community and has been able to retain support in the areas of northern Karnataka, even after switching alliances and parties. His electoral victory is significant, contesting and winning his seat against B.Shankaranand of the Indian National Congress'. Ramesh entered the 12th Lok Sabha with a margin of 1,31,238 votes^[2]

Initially, he joined the undivided Janata Dal under the mentorship of Ramakrishna Hegde. He remained in the Janta Dal and was a staunch supporter of Ramakrishna Hegde. When Ramakrishna Hegde floated the Rashtreeya Nava Nirmana Vedike, Ramesh Jigajinagi was among the earliest sitting MLAs to support him and join the new party by resigning his ministership. Later, he joined Lok Shakti,a party formed by Ramakrishna Hegde and rejoined Janata Dal United after the merger of Lok Shakti with the former. After the death of his mentor, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Positions held

Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly 1983- 1998
Minister of State, Home Department in the Government of Karnataka 1983
Minister of State, Excise Department in the Government of Karnataka 1984-1985
Cabinet Minister for Social Welfare and Revenue in the Government of Karnataka 1996-1998
Member of the 12th Loksabha 1998-1999 (Winning Margin=131238)
Member of the 13th Loksabha 1999-2004 (Winning Margin=84590)
Member of the 14th Loksabha 2004-2009 (Winning Margin=43492)
Member of the 15th Loksabha 2009-2014 (Winning Margin=42404)
Member of the 16th Loksabha 2014- (Winning Margin=69819)
He has served as the member in the following committees
Parliamentary Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance
Parliamentary Committee on Absence of Members from the sittings of the House
Parliamentary Committee on Commerce
Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs and its Sub-Committee on Personnel Policy of Central Para-Military Forces

Notes

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External links

Ramesh Jigajinagi's home page on Lok Sabha's Website

References

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha from Karnataka

Bharatiya Janata Party (19)	Katti Ramesh Vishwanath Suresh Angadi Gaddigoudar P.C. Ramesh Jigajinagi Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi Pralhad Joshi Ananthkumar Hegde Siddeswara G. M. B. Y. Raghavendra Nalin Kumar Kateel Janardhana Swamy G.S. Basavaraj D. B. Chandre Gowda P. C. Mohan Ananth Kumar D. V. Sadananda Gowda Sanna Pakirappa Shivaramagouda Shivanagouda J. Shantha

Indian National Congress (9)	Mallikarjun Kharge N. Dharam Singh Adagur H. Vishwanath R.Dhruvanarayana M. Veerappa Moily K. H. Muniyappa K. Jayaprakash Hegde Ramya D. K. Suresh

Janata Dal (Secular) (3)	H. D. Devegowda H.D. Kumaraswamy N. Chaluvaraya Swamy

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Karnataka State

15th LS Members 17th LS Members

GE 2014	P. C. Gaddigoudar P. C. Mohan D V Sadananda Gowda D. K. Suresh Ananth Kumar Suresh Angadi B. Sriramulu Bhagwanth Khuba Ramesh Jigajinagi R. Dhruvanarayana Veerappa Moily Prakash Babanna Hukkeri B N Chandrappa Nalin Kumar Kateel G.M. Siddeswara Pralhad Joshi Mallikarjun Kharge H. D. Devegowda Shivakumar Udasi K H Muniyappa Karadi Sanganna Amarappa C S Puttaraju Prathap Simha B V Nayak B. S. Yeddyurappa Muddahanumegowda S P Shobha Karandlaje Anant Kumar Hegde

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from States: AP BH CT GA GJ HR HP JK JH KL KA MP MH OR PB RJ TN TS UP UT WB Northeast: AR AS MN ML MZ NL SK TR Union Territories: AN CH DN DD LD DL PY

Bharatiya Janata Party

Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)

Current Vice Presidents	B. S. Yeddyurappa Bandaru Dattatreya Om Prakash Mathur Parsottambhai Rupala Raghubar Das Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Satyapal Singh Malik Prabhat Jha Kiran Maheshwari Dinesh Sharma Renu Devi Vinay Sahasrabuddhe

Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Prime Ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi

Current Chief ministers	Anandiben Patel Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das

Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Nalin Kohli Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal

General Secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh

Morcha	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha

Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

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