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V. Muniyappa

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Vadigenahalli Munishamappa Muniyappa (born 20 April 1947) is an Indian politician from Karnataka. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has served multiple terms as a Member of the Legislative Assembly representing the Sidlaghatta constituency in Chikkaballapur district.

Muniyappa was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly six times since 1983 and has contested the MLA elections from Sidlaghatta nine times. He contested the Lok Sabha election once, in 1996. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of S. Bangarappa (1991), Veerappa Moily (1993), and S. M. Krishna (1999), holding portfolios including Sericulture, Energy, and Mines & Geology. In January 2019, he was appointed as the Political Secretary to Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy. Provided by Wikipedia