Yeddyurappa -Birth February 27, 1943 BirthplaceBookanakere,Mandya district Karnataka. Caste : Lingayat
Education:Bachelor of Arts.
First Job: 1965, a first-division clerk - social welfare department
Second Job: Clerk in a rice mill- Veerabhadra Shastri's Shankar rice mill at Shikaripur.
Married: Mythadevi- Daughter of Veerabhadra Shastri
Was Appointed: secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Shikaripura 1970.
Was elected :as the President of the Taluk unit of the Jan Sangh in 1972
Was elected as the President of the Town Municipality of Shikaripur in1975.
Was Imprisoned during Emergency.
was appointed as the President of the Shikaripur taluk unit of the BJP in 1980.
was the president of BJP's Shimoga district unit in 1985.
Was the President of the BJP unit of the state of Karnataka in 1988
He was first elected to thVidha Sabha in 1983 and has since represented the Shikaripur constituency 5 times.
In the Tenth Assembly, he was chosen as Leader of Opposition.
In 1999, he lost the elections but was nominated by the BJP to become a member of the Vidhan Parishad of Karnataka.
