S. A. Ramadas

S.Ashwath Narayan Rao[2] Ramadas is an Indian politician and an MLA . He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

He is a 4th time Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) from Krishnaraja constituency in Mysore, Karnataka.[3] In the 2008 Karnataka assembly elections, he contested against Congress leader M.K.Somashekar , a former MLA and won by a margin of about 20000 votes. He is considered one of the main Hindu leaders of Mysore. He has been elected from this constituency on two earlier occasions in 1994 and 1999 but lost to M.K.Somashekar in 2004.[4]

Following the historic victory of the BJP in Karnataka in May 2008, he was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa.[5] In 2010, he was appointed as a Cabinet minister in the Yeddyurappa government and entrusted with the Medical Education portfolio. He continued in the same post in the D.V. Sadananda Gowda government. He was also the district in-charge minister for Mysore district in the 2008 - 2013 assembly. In 2013, he contested from Krishnaraja constituency and was defeated by M.K.Somashekar of INC.

Ramdas heads a voluntary organisation called Aasare Foundation which is into social service in Mysore.[6] He also called as PEOPLE leader. He is famous for his organisational works, he is the first who made more than 13 thousand page pramukh in his constituency.

Early Political Career

Ramadas's political career began as an active member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and RSS Swayamsevak. He served as the President of Yuva Morcha Mysore City BJP and served for two terms from 1995-97 and from 1997-2000 as a State Yuvamorcha President. The party's prominence as a young Morcha president has taken him to political heights. He was also a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party's National Council. For the first time, he contested the 1994 assembly elections from the Krishnaraja constituency as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and elected by a margin of about 9,500 votes. He won the 1999 election by a margin of about 10,000 votes for the second time, and by a massive margin of about 19,000 votes for the third time then in 2018, he was victorious for the fourth time by a massive margin of about 26,500 votes. He has set up a research laboratory called Immuno Modulator to inform the world about the benefits of Indian medical practice and how the Indian medical system can cure all the deadly diseases.