BENGALURU:
Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje was inducted into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s union cabinet as state minister.
Karandlaje belongs to the Vokkaliga community is a well-known face of BJP in coastal Karnataka and is likely to get a prominent post in the union cabinet.
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Born on October 23, 1966, Karandlaje, in a small village called Charvaka in Dakshina Kannada. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from Mangalore University, and MA in Sociology from Mysuru University.
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She won the Udupi-Chikkamagaluru Lok Sabha constituency by a margin of 3.49 lac votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the highest margin ever acquired by a female candidate in Karnataka.