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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name =B. Sriramulu
| image = The MP, Lok Sabha, Karnataka, Shri B. Sreeramulu calling on the Union Minister for Railways, Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, in New Delhi on March 01, 2016.jpg
| office1 = Minister of Transport [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start1 = 4 August 2021
| 1blankname1 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata1 = [[Basavaraj Bommai]]
| predecessor1 = [[Laxman Savadi]]
| office2 = Minister of Tribal Welfare [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start2 = 4 August 2021
| 1blankname2 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata2 = [[Basavaraj Bommai]]
| predecessor2 = ''ministry created''
| office3 = Minister of Social Welfare [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start3 = 12 October 2020
| term_end3 = 28 July 2021
| 1blankname3 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata3 = [[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
| predecessor3 = [[Govind Karjol]]
| successor3 = [[Kota Srinivas Poojary]]
| office4 = Minister of Backward Classes Welfare [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start4 = 27 September 2019
| term_end4 = 12 October 2020
| 1blankname4 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata4 = [[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
| predecessor4 = C. Puttarangashetty
| successor4 = [[Kota Srinivas Poojary]]
| office5 = Minister of Health & Family Welfare [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start5 = 20 August 2019
| term_end5 = 12 October 2020
| 1blankname5 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata5 = [[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
| predecessor5 = [[Shivanand Patil]]
| successor5 = [[K. Sudhakar (politician)|K. Sudhakar]]
| term_start6 = 30 May 2008
| term_end6 = 4 August 2011
| 1blankname6 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata6 = [[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
| predecessor6 = [[R. Ashoka]]
| successor6 = [[Arvind Limbavali]]
| office7 = Minister of Tourism [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start7 = 18 February 2006
| term_end7 = 8 October 2007
| 1blankname7 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata7 = [[H. D. Kumaraswamy]]
| predecessor7 = D. T. Jayakumar
| successor7 = [[G. Janardhana Reddy]]
| office8 = Minister of Textiles [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start8 = 18 February 2006
| term_end8 = 25 January 2007
| 1blankname8 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata8 = [[H. D. Kumaraswamy]]
| predecessor8 = Amaregouda P. Bayyapur
| successor8 = [[Appu Pattanshetty]]
| office9 = [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly|Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start9 = 2018
| term_end9 =
| constituency9 = [[Molakalmuru]]
| predecessor9 = Tippaswamy.S
| successor9 =
| term_start10 = 2004
| term_end10 = 2014
| constituency10 = [[Bellary (Vidhana Sabha constituency)|Bellary(AS)]]
| predecessor10 = Diwakar Babu
| successor10 = Gopalkrishna K
| office11 = [[Member of Parliament]] [[Lok Sabha]]
| constituency11 = [[Bellary (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bellary(LS)]]
| term_start11 = 2014
| term_end11 = 2018
| predecessor11 = [[J. Shantha]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| successor11 = [[V. S. Ugrappa]], [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1971|8|08}}
| birth_place = [[Ballari]], [[Mysore State]], [[India]]
| party = [[BJP]]
| otherparty = [[Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress]] {{small|(2011–2014)}}
| spouse = Lakshmi
| children = 4
| website =
| footnotes =
}}

'''Ballari Sriramulu''' (born 8 August 1971) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as Minister of Transport Department and Tribal Welfare of [[Government of Karnataka|Karnataka]] from 4 August 2021. He was the Minister of Social Welfare Department of [[Karnataka]] from 12 October 2020 to 26 July 2021. He was member of [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly]] from [[Bellary City (Vidhana Sabha constituency)|Bellary]]. He is a member of the legislative assembly representing [[Molakalmuru (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Molakalmuru]] Constituency in [[Chitradurga]] district. He is the Social Welfare minister in the [[Government of Karnataka]]. He served as a Health and Family welfare minister previously from (2008-2011 and August 2019 to October 2020) also as a Minister of Backward class welfare from September 2019 to October 2020.He serves in the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by [[B. S. Yediyurappa]].He served as a member of [[Lok Sabha]] from 2014-2018 from [[Bellary (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bellary]].

== Early life ==

B. Sriramulu was born in [[Bellary]], [[Karnataka]] on 8 August 1971 to B. Thimmappa, a railway employee and B Honnuramma, a housewife. He is the seventh child among four brothers and four sisters.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}

== Career ==

In the [[1998 Indian general election|1999 Lok Sabha elections]] Sriramulu worked as a local aide for [[Sushma Swaraj]], who contested from [[Bellary (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bellary]] Lok Sabha constituency, when she contested against the Congress giant [[Sonia Gandhi]], to give a fierce fight and lose at a close margin.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/nation/story/19990830-bellary-constituency-bizarre-cat-and-mouse-game-precedes-sonia-gandhis-electoral-debut-824352-1999-08-30|title=Bellary constituency: Bizarre cat-and-mouse game precedes Sonia Gandhi's electoral debut|website=www.indiatoday.in|date=4 February 2013|access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref> With the support of Sriramulu and Janardhan Reddy, she later won the election from the same constituency in the next general elections.

In the [[2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election]] he was elected from the Bellary constituency, where BJP had their first chance to form the government independently under the leadership of [[B. S. Yediyurappa]]. He later served as the Minister for health and family welfare for around 3 years in the Karnataka government.
In September 2011, he resigned his post as the cabinet minister and also from the post of the MLA and he later quit the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]], accusing and owing to alleged humiliation shouted out at his friend and mentor and jailed the former tourism minister [[Gali Janardhan Reddy]] for acquiring illegal wealth from various sources without documentation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-reddy-brothers-s-shock-to-bjp-sreeramulu-quits-party-in-karnataka-1609954|title=Reddy brothers's shock to BJP: Sreeramulu quits party in Karnataka|date=9 November 2011|website=DNA India}}</ref>

Subsequently, with much competition and considering it to be a prestige, he contested as an Independent candidate again from the [[Bellary (Vidhana Sabha constituency)|Bellary]] Rural constituency and also won.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Bellary-bypoll-Ruling-BJP-loses-deposit-rebel-Sriramulu-wins/articleshow/10978782.cms|title=Bellary bypoll: Ruling BJP loses deposit, rebel Sriramulu wins | Bengaluru News - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref> He then floated a regional party, ''Badavara Shramikara Raithara Congress'' or [[BSR Congress]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Sriramulu-to-roll-out-BSR-Party/articleshow/11054167.cms|title=Sriramulu to roll out BSR Party | Bengaluru News - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref> He also announced that his party is going to contest from all the constituencies in the [[2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election]]. Though his party did not manage to win many of the seats, it gave a major setback to BJP, by dividing the vote share mainly in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region, and shut the seat share to only 40 seats for the BJP.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kjp-bsr-congress-snatch-votes-from-bjp-in-hyderabad-karnataka/article4699602.ece/amp/|title=KJP, BSR Congress snatch votes from BJP in Hyderabad Karnataka|website=www.thehindu.com|date=20 May 2013|access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref>

After his party faced the election defeat in 2013, he decided to merge his party with the BJP, saying that he and his party are keen to work, to bring [[Narendra Modi]] to power in the 2014 Indian general elections.
In March 2014 he again joined BJP and contested Lok Sabha election from [[Bellary (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bellary]] where he slidingly won the seat<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/elections-news/bs-sriramulu-re-joins-bjp-says-sushma-swaraj-like-my-mother-553943|title=BS Sriramulu re-joins BJP, says Sushma Swaraj 'like my mother'|website=NDTV.com}}</ref>{{update inline|date=December 2019}}

He is BJP Karnataka, state vice-president. B. Sriramulu was health, tourism Bellary district minister in the [[Yeddyurappa]] government.

In 2018, Karnataka assembly elections, Sriramulu contested from Molkalmuru and Badami. He won Molkalmuru, by a margin of 40,000 odd votes, bit lost the [[Badami]] seat by 1500 votes to the former chief minister [[Siddaramaiah]]. <ref>[https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/reddy-clan-wins-big-bags-4-out-7-seats-karnataka-81357]</ref>

On 27 July 2018, Sriramulu called for a separate state for North Karnataka due to alleged "injustice" in that part of the state.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bjp-mla-demands-for-a-separate-state-for-north-karnataka-5279854/|title=BJP MLA B Sriramulu demands separate state for North Karnataka|date=27 July 2018}}</ref> After the coalition government led by [[H. D. Kumaraswamy]] lost its majority, paving the way to BJP to form the government he was inducted as a minister into the cabinet. He serves as Minister of Health and Family Welfare in the government.

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100619201924/http://kla.kar.nic.in/cabm.htm B. Sriramulu - Health and Family Welfare Department excluding Medical Education ] at the Karnataka Legislative Assembly

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