Pralhad Joshi

Pralhad Joshi

Ex-President of the Karnataka State BJP Unit
Incumbent
Assumed office 2012
Preceded by	K. S. Eshwarappa
Member of 14th, 15th and 16th loksabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 May 2004
Preceded by	Vijay Sankeshwar
Constituency	Dharwad
Personal details
Born	(1962-11-27) 27 November 1962 Bijapur, Karnataka
Political party	BJP
Spouse(s)	Jyothi Joshi
Children	3 daughters
Residence	Hubli
Religion	Hindu
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Pralhad Joshi (born 27 November 1962) is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2019) of India. He represents the Dharwad constituency of Karnataka and is the Ex-President of the Karnataka state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is also part of the pool (as of 2014) which helps Lok Sabha Speaker by chairing the house proceedings when both the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker are not present.

Pralhad Joshi (sometimes spelled Prahlad Joshi) first came to public notice with Rastradwaja Horata Samiti Sanchalak when they organised a movement to hoist the Tri-colour flag at Idagah Maidan (Also known as Kittur Rani chennamma Maidan) Hubli Karnataka during 1992-1994. Recently the Supreme court has upheld the Karnataka High Court order restoring the ownership of the said maidan to The Hubli-Dharwad Municipal corporation. Pralhad Joshi was re elected to the Loksabha in the May 2009 General Election in Dharwad constituency. His winning margin was the second highest amongst 28 constituencies of Karnataka. In the year 2014 the elections held for loksabha Joshi was elected for third time against the sitting MLA Vinay Kulkarni contested from congress.

References

↑ http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=3982

External links

Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha from Karnataka

Bharatiya Janata Party (19)	Katti Ramesh Vishwanath Suresh Angadi Gaddigoudar P.C. Ramesh Jigajinagi Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi Pralhad Joshi Ananthkumar Hegde Siddeswara G. M. B. Y. Raghavendra Nalin Kumar Kateel Janardhana Swamy G.S. Basavaraj D. B. Chandre Gowda P. C. Mohan Ananth Kumar D. V. Sadananda Gowda Sanna Pakirappa Shivaramagouda Shivanagouda J. Shantha

Indian National Congress (9)	Mallikarjun Kharge N. Dharam Singh Adagur H. Vishwanath R.Dhruvanarayana M. Veerappa Moily K. H. Muniyappa K. Jayaprakash Hegde Ramya D. K. Suresh

Janata Dal (Secular) (3)	H. D. Devegowda H.D. Kumaraswamy N. Chaluvaraya Swamy

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Karnataka State

GE 2014	P. C. Gaddigoudar P. C. Mohan D V Sadananda Gowda D. K. Suresh Ananth Kumar Suresh Angadi B. Sriramulu Bhagwanth Khuba Ramesh Jigajinagi R. Dhruvanarayana Veerappa Moily Prakash Babanna Hukkeri B N Chandrappa Nalin Kumar Kateel G.M. Siddeswara Pralhad Joshi Mallikarjun Kharge H. D. Devegowda Shivakumar Udasi K H Muniyappa Karadi Sanganna Amarappa C S Puttaraju Prathap Simha B V Nayak B. S. Yeddyurappa Muddahanumegowda S P Shobha Karandlaje Anant Kumar Hegde

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Bharatiya Janata Party

Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)

Current Vice Presidents	Satya Pal Malik Parsottambhai Rupala Prabhat Jha Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Renu Devi Dinesh Sharma Om Prakash Mathur Shyam Jaju Avinash Rai Khanna

Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sushil Kumar Modi Himanta Biswa Sarma

Prime Ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi

Current Chief ministers	Vijay Rupani Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das Sarbananda Sonowal

Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Siddharth Nath Singh Nalin Kohli Shaina NC Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal

General Secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh

Morcha	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha

Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

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