constituency successor birth_place party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
shimoga k. b. prasanna kumar bellary , karnataka bharatiya janata party mlc 10 june 1948 2008 k. s. eshwarappa
 13 may 2013 k. s. eshwarappa
k. s. eshwarappa

k. s. eshwarappa -lrb- born 10 july 1948 -rrb- is a senior politician of the bharatiya janata party , one of the two major political parties in india .
he is an influential leader of the kuruba gowda community .
following bjp 's loss at the 2013 karnataka assembly elections , eshwarappa stepped down as the state bjp president .
