constituency birth_place nationality party office residence article_title name occupation
krishnaraja mysore , karnataka , india indian bjp cabinet minister , government of karnataka no. cross , vidhyaranyapura , mysore & nbsp ; -- 570008 1063/77 . , a 1st main road , 6th s.a. ramadas
 s. a. ramadass politician , social worker
s.a. ramadas

s.a. ramadas -lrb- also spelled as s.a. ramdas -rrb- is an indian politician .
he is a member of the bharatiya janata party -lrb- bjp -rrb- .
he is a member of the legislative assembly -lrb- india -rrb- from krishnaraja constituency in mysore , karnataka .
in the 2008 karnataka assembly elections , he contested against congress leader m. k. somashekar , a former mla and won by a margin of about 20000 votes.he is considered as one of the main hindu leaders of mysore .
he has been elected from this constituency on two earlier occasions in 1994 and 1999 but lost to m.k.somashekar in 2004 .
following the historic victory of the bjp in karnataka in may 2008 , he was appointed as parliamentary secretary to the chief minister b. s. yeddyurappa .
in 2010 , he was appointed as a cabinet minister in the yeddyurappa government and entrusted with the medical education portfolio .
he continued in the same post in the d.v. sadananda gowda government .
he was also the district in-charge minister for mysore district in the 2008 - 2013 assembly .
in 2013 , he contested from krishnaraja constituency and was defeated by m k somshekar of inc. .
ramdas heads a voluntary organisation called `` aasare foundation '' which is into social service in mysore .
