Lehar Singh Siroya

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Lehar Singh Siroya
Member(elect) of Karnataka Legislative Council
Assumed office
14 June 2016
Preceded byAshwathanarayana, BJP
Personal details
Political partyBJP
OccupationPolitician

Lehar Singh Siroya is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka. He was earlier suspended from BJP for criticizing L. K. Advani.[1] He had left BJP along with B. S. Yeddyurappa and had joined Karnataka Janatha Paksha.

On 10 June 2016, he was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Council. He secured 27 first preference votes (13 of BJP MLAs which were left after electing V. Somanna so 14 first preference votes from other independent and smaller party MLAs) and won after adding second preference votes.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "BJP suspends Lehar Singh Siroya for criticising Advani". The Times of India. 18 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Karnataka MLC poll results: Congress-4, BJP-2 and JD (S) 1". www.daijiworld.com. 10 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Congress bags four seats, BJP two, JD-S one in Council polls". Business Standard. 10 June 2016.


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