Gangasandra Siddappa Basavaraj (born 1941) is an Indian politician. He is a member of Lok Sabha (2019–present), elected from Tumkur constituency in 2019. He started his political career with Congress, and is now a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He defeated former prime minister Sri H. D. Deve Gowda in the 2019 Indian general elections by a margin of nearly 15,000 votes in Tumkur Lok Sabha Constituency. He has been elected to Lok Sabha from Tumkur five times, in 1984, 1989 and 1999 as member of Indian National Congress, and in 2009 and 2019 as member of BJP. In 2004 elections, he finished third as Congress candidate behind BJP and JD-S candidates in Tumkur. He joined BJP after this defeat. In 2014 he was the losing candidate for BJP. However, he defeated the political think-tank HD Deve Gowda in the same constituency in the 2019 Indian general election
Political career
Member of 8th Lok Sabha
Member of 9th Lok Sabha (1989-1991) Member of 13th Lok Sabha (1999-2004) Member of 15th Lok Sabha (2009-2014) Member of 17th Lok Sabha