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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2010}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name =K. S. Eshwarappa
| image = Mode-of-karnataka-assembly-elections-2013 136144047626.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1948|06|10}}
| birth_place = [[Ballari]],<ref>Wikipedia early life and Myneta}{</ref> [[Mysore State]], [[India]]
| residence = [[Bengaluru]]
| office1 = Minister of Rural Development & Panchayat Raj [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start1 = 20 August 2019
| term_end1 = 14 April 2022
| 1blankname1 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata1 = [[B. S. Yediyurappa]] [[Basavaraj Bommai]]
| predecessor1 = [[Krishna Byre Gowda]]
| term_start2 = 12 July 2012
| term_end2 = 13 May 2013
| 1blankname2 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata2 = [[Jagadish Shettar]]
| predecessor2 = [[Jagadish Shettar]]
| successor2 = [[H. K. Patil]]
| office3 = Minister of Youth Empowerment & Sports [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start3 = 27 September 2019
| term_end3 = 10 February 2020
| 1blankname3 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata3 = [[B. S. Yediyurappa]] [[Basavaraj Bommai]]
| predecessor3 = [[Rahim Khan (politician)|Rahim Khan]]
| successor3 = [[C. T. Ravi]]
| office4 = [[Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka]]
| term_start4 = 12 July 2012
| term_end4 = 13 May 2013
| alongside4 = [[R. Ashoka]]
| successor4 = [[G. Parameshwara]]
| predecessor4 = [[B. S. Yeddyurappa]]
| office5 = Minister of Revenue [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start5 = 12 July 2012
| term_end5 = 13 May 2013
| 1blankname5 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata5 = [[Jagadish Shettar]]
| predecessor5 = [[G. Karunakara Reddy]]
| successor5 = [[Srinivasa Prasad]]
| office6 = Minister of Energy [[Government of Karnataka]]
| term_start6 = 30 May 2008
| term_end6 = 28 January 2010
| 1blankname6 = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata6 = [[B. S. Yediyurappa]]
| predecessor6 = [[H. D. Revanna]]
| successor6 = [[Shobha Karandlaje]]
| office7 = Minister of Major & Medium Irrigation [[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 = [[Mallikarjun Kharge]]
| successor7 = [[Basavaraj Bommai]]
| office8 = [[List of leaders of the opposition in Karnataka Legislative Council|Leader of the Opposition Karnataka Legislative Council]]
| term_start8 = 13 July 2014
| term_end8 = 29 May 2018
| predecessor8 = [[D. V. Sadananda Gowda]]
| successor8 = [[Kota Srinivas Poojary]]
| office9 = [[Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka|President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka]]
| term_start9 = 2 January 2010
| term_end9 = 11 July 2012
| predecessor9 = [[D V Sadananda Gowda]]
| successor9 = [[Prahlad Joshi]]
| office10 = Member of [[Karnataka Legislative Council]]
| term_start10 = 1 July 2014
| term_end10 = 15 May 2018
| constituency10 = ''elected by the Legislative Assembly members''
| office11 = Member of [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start11 = 2018
| predecessor11 = K. B. Prasanna Kumar
| constituency11 = [[Shivamogga]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| term_start12 = 2004
| term_end12 = 2013
| predecessor12 = H.M Chandrashekarappa
| successor12 = K.B. Prasanna Kumar
| constituency12 = [[Shivamogga]]
| term_start13 = 1989
| term_end13 = 1999
| predecessor13 = K. H. Srinivassa
| successor13 = H.M Chandrashekarappa
| constituency13 = [[Shivamogga]]
}}

'''K. S. Eshwarappa''' (born 10 June 1948)<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=City today|url=https://citytoday.news/supporterscelebrate-birthday-of-minister-eshwarappa/|access-date=|website=}}</ref> is an Indian senior [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] [[politician]] who was Minister of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj of [[Karnataka]] from 20 August 2019 to 14 April 2022. He was the 6th Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka from 12 July 2012 to 12 May 2013. He was Minister of State for Rural development and Panchayat Raj of Karnataka from 20 August 2019 to 26 July 2021. He is a senior leader of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] in Karnataka. He was the seventh Deputy Chief minister in the BJP government headed by [[Jagadish Shettar]] from 2012 to 2013. On 20 August 2019 he was inducted as a Cabinet Minister in the BJP government led by B.S. Yediyurappa. He served as Leader of the Opposition in the [[Karnataka Legislative Council]] (2014-2018).

== Early life ==
K. S. Eshwarappa was born in [[Bellary]]. His father Sharanappa and mother Bassamma moved to [[Shimoga]] in the early 1950s. His parents worked in the Bhoopalam Areca Mandi as daily wage workers. When young Eshwarappa also tried to go to work with his parents, his mother opposed the move and urged him to concentrate on his education and earn a good name in society. This inspiration that he got in his childhood, eventually led him to become a social worker.

As a child, Eshwarappa was interested in sports and music. One of his classmates was D. M. Ravindra who later became the Prant Pracharak of [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (R.S.S.). Narasimha Murthy Iyengar, a well-known V.H.P leader in Shimoga, introduced him to the RSS during his childhood. Thus, his public life began as an activist of the RSS.

While he was a student in the National Commerce College, Shimoga, he actively worked with the [[Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad]] (A.B.V.P.), the student wing of RSS. After his graduation, he started his own private business in Shimoga city. He also involved himself with the erstwhile [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]].

== Political career ==
During [[Emergency]] (1975–77), he was arrested and detained in the Bellary Jail. After the removal of emergency, he became very active in politics. He worked in different capacities and in 1982, became the president of the [[Shimoga]] city unit of BJP. His personal efforts were one of the main reasons in M. Ananda Rao winning from Shimoga as the first ever BJP candidate.

In 1989, he contested the Karnataka assembly elections as a BJP candidate from Shimoga and defeated a heavyweight, the then health Minister K. H. Srinivas by a margin of 1,304 votes. He became popular with this victory and went on to win four more times from this constituency, losing only once in 1999. In 1992, he became the President of the State unit of BJP and was instrumental in his party's good performance in the 1994 state assembly elections. In 2000, he was appointed the Chairman of the Central Silk Board when the [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|NDA]] government was in power.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gradual ascent of K S Eshwarappa|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/article564854.ece|accessdate=2016-06-26|publisher=The New Indian Express|date=12 July 2012}}</ref>

In the BJP-JDS coalition Government headed by [[H. D. Kumaraswamy]], he was Minister for Water Resources.<ref name=state2>{{cite news|title=Eshwarappa, Horatti among 20 Cabinet Ministers sworn in|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/18/stories/2006021805550600.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004211508/http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/18/stories/2006021805550600.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 October 2008|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=18 February 2006}}</ref> Following the historic victory of the BJP in the Karnataka state elections in 2008, he became the minister for Power in the [[B.S. Yeddyurappa]] government.<ref name=state4>{{cite news|title=No power crisis in State: Eshwarappa|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/10894/no-power-crisis-state-eshwarappa.html|newspaper=Deccan Herald}}</ref>

In January 2010, he resigned as minister and was unanimously elected as the President of the Karnataka state unit of the ruling BJP.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/28/stories/2010012853120400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915042638/http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/28/stories/2010012853120400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 September 2010|title= K.S. Eshwarappa all set to become State BJP president|date=28 January 2010|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=2010-02-01}}</ref> This move was seen as BJP's strategy to tackle opposition leader in the assembly [[Siddaramaiah]], who also belongs to the same community.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/article96261.ece|title= K. S. Eshwarappa elected Karnataka BJP chief|work=The Hindu|date=28 January 2010|accessdate=2010-02-01}}</ref>

In July 2012, following the resignation of [[D.V. Sadananda Gowda]], [[Jagadish Shettar]] was appointed the Chief minister and Eshwarappa became Deputy Chief minister. He was also entrusted with the Revenue and Rural development portfolios.<ref name=state1>{{cite news|title=2 Deputy CMs for Karnataka|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article3623735.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|date=10 July 2012}}</ref><ref name=STATE>{{cite news|title=Shettar keeps Finance, Eshwarappa gets Revenue portfolio|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article3643339.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|date=12 July 2012}}</ref> He then stepped down as the State [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] president and was succeeded by Prahlad Joshi.<ref>{{cite news |title= Eshwarappa steps down as State BJP president |url= http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/eshwarappa-steps-down-as-state-bjp-president/article4485340.ece |work= The Hindu |date= 9 May 2013 |accessdate= 2013-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Pralhad Joshi appointed Karnataka BJP president|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/pralhad-joshi-appointed-karnataka-bjp-president/article4534720.ece|accessdate=2016-06-26|work=The Hindu|date=22 March 2013}}</ref>

In the [[2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|2013 Assembly elections]], Eshwarappa contested again from the [[Shimoga]] assembly constituency and lost to [[K. B. Prasanna Kumar]] of the Congress by a margin of nearly 6,000 votes.<ref>{{cite news |title= 12 ministers fall as Congress storms back to power in Karnataka, BJP decimated |url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/specials/news/12-ministers-fall-as-Congress-storms-back-to-power-in-Karnataka-BJP-decimated/articleshow/19951714.cms |work= The Times of India |date= 5 May 2013 |accessdate= 2013-05-12}}</ref> Days after making an alleged “hate speech” against a minority community, Eshwarappa was slapped with a criminal case in April 2013 after electoral officials issued directions for it.<ref>{{Cite news|others=PTI|date=2013-04-12|title=Criminal case filed against Eshwarappa for "hate speech"|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/criminal-case-filed-against-eshwarappa-for-hate-speech/article4610584.ece|access-date=2021-07-17|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

However, he was nominated by his party to the [[Karnataka Legislative Council]] in 2014<ref>{{cite news|title=BJP favours Kore for RS, Eshwarappa for Council|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/bjp-favours-kore-for-rs-eshwarappa-for-council/article6067264.ece|accessdate=2016-06-26|work=The Hindu|date=31 May 2014}}</ref> and became the Leader of the Opposition in the council.<ref>{{cite news|title=Eshwarappa takes charge as Leader of Opposition in Council|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/eshwarappa-takes-charge-as-leader-of-opposition-in-council/article6167494.ece|accessdate=2016-06-26|work=The Hindu|date=2 July 2014}}</ref>

In the [[2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election]] he again contested from Shimaga and won the seat. Further after the collapse of [[H. D. Kumaraswamy]]'s coalition government, he was sworn in as the Rural development and Panchayat Raj minister. After the resignation of [[B. S. Yediyurappa]] he was again inducted as the cabinet minister under [[Basavaraj Bommai]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Correspondent|first=Special|date=2021-08-04|title=Karnataka Cabinet: Team Bommai emerges as new Ministers take oath of office|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/govind-karjol-takes-oath-followed-by-ks-eshwarappa/article35716813.ece|access-date=2021-08-06|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

On 14 April 2022, Eshwarappa resigned from his position as Rural Development and Panchayat Raj minister after a controversy arose over his alleged role in the suicide of a contractor, Santhosh Patil, who wasn't paid for road works.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-04-17|title=Karnataka: Eshwarappa quits, says truth will come out|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/karnataka-bjp-minister-k-s-eshwarappa-resigns-over-contractors-death-7871210/|date=16 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-04-17|title=Eshwarappa resigns over contractor Santhosh Patil's death, alleges conspiracy|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/eshwarappa-resigns-over-contractor-santhosh-patils-death-alleges-conspiracy-162941|date=16 April 2022|website=The News Minute}}</ref>

== References ==
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{{Deputy Chief Ministers of Karnataka}}

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|title=[[Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka]]
|years= 13 July 2012 – 8 May 2013
|after=[[Dr. G. Parameshwara]]
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