B. THIMMAPPA Sreeramulu

B. Sreeramulu, political journey began as a Councillor from Devi Nagar in the year 1996. The 1999 Lok Sabha elections saw the emergence of B SriRamulu as Sushma Swaraj’s local aide. All though Swaraj and Sriramulu who contested the 1999 Assembly elections from Bellary city lost in the elections, for Him, both the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections that year proved to be a crucial stepping stone. He was Tourism, Textile, Civil Aviation & Infrastructure Minister. In September 2011, he resigned as an MLA and later quit the Bharatiya Janata Party owing to alleged humiliation meted out to his mentor and jailed former minister Gali Janardhan Reddy by the BJP leadership. Subsequently he contested as an Independent candidate again from the Bellary Rural constituency and won. He then floated a regional party, Badava Shramika Raitha Congress or BSR Congress. However in March 2014 he again joined Bharatiya Janata Party and contested Loksabha election from Bellary, Karnataka as a BJP candidate.