Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa is a key figure in the BJP’s efforts to retain power in Karnataka in the upcoming elections. The strongman leader of the Lingayat community, despite being out of the fray, is the one on whom the central leadership is pinning hopes on the party’s victory. In 2019, Bhukanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa, BJP veteran was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka for a record fourth time. Born on February, 1965 Yediyurappa, also known as BSY, eight-time MLA from Shikaripura seat in Shivamogga district have lived His son Vijayendra Yeddyurappa is contesting from this seat this time as his father had announced his retirement from electoral politics.

He was born to Siddalingappa and Puttathayamma at Bukanakere in Mandya district. In 1965, he got a job as a first class clerk in the Social Welfare Department, but instead, he moved to Shikaripur where he started working as a clerk in his relative’s rice mill. done. In , he married Maithradevi, the daughter of a rice mill owner, and later opened a hardware shop in Shivamogga, told The Hindu.