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{{short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ramesh Jigajinagi
| image =Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi taking charge in his office, in the presence of the Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Ananth Kumar, in New Delhi (cropped).jpg
| caption =
| birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1952|6|28|df=y}}
| birth_place =Atharga, [[Bijapur, Karnataka|Bijapur]], [[Bombay State]] (now in [[Karnataka]]), India
| residence =[[Bijapur, Karnataka]], [[Karnataka]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| office1 =[[Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation|Minister of State for Drinking Water & Sanitation]]
| term_start1 = 5 July 2016
| term_end1 = 24 May 2019
| primeminister1 = [[Narendra Modi]]
| predecessor1 = [[Birender Singh (politician, born 1946)|Birender Singh]]
| successor1 =
| office2 = Member of the [[Parliament of India]] ([[Lok Sabha]]) for [[Bijapur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bijapur]]
| term_start2 = 2009
| term_end2 =
| predecessor2 = [[Basangouda Patil Yatnal]]
| successor2 =
| majority2 =
| office3 =[[Minister (government)|Minister]] for Revenue, [[Government of Karnataka|Karnataka]]
| term_start3 =1996
| term_end3 =1998
| predecessor3 =
| successor3 =
| office4 =[[Minister (government)|Minister]] for [[Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment|Social Welfare]], [[Government of Karnataka|Karnataka]]
| term_start4 =1996
| term_end4 =1998
| predecessor4 =
| successor4 =
| office5 = Member of the [[Parliament of India]] ([[Lok Sabha]]) for [[Chikkodi (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chikkodi]]
| term_start5 = 1998
| term_end5 = 2009
| predecessor5 = [[Ratnamala Dhareshwar Savanoor]]
| successor5 = [[Katti Ramesh Vishwanath]]
| majority5 =
| office6 =[[Minister of State|MoS]] for [[Home Minister|Home]], [[Government of Karnataka|Karnataka]]
| term_start6 =1983
| term_end6 =1985
| predecessor6 =
| successor6 =
| office7 =[[Minister of State|MoS]] for [[Central Excise|Excise]], [[Government of Karnataka|Karnataka]]
| term_start7 =1984
| term_end7 =1985
| predecessor7 =
| successor7 =
| office8 = Member of the [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly]] for [[Ballolli]]
| term8 = 1983-1989
| predecessor8 =Siddharth Sangappa Arakeri
| successor8 = Manohar Umakant Ainapur
| office9 = Member of the [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly]] for [[Ballolli]]
| term9 = 1994-1999
| predecessor9 =Manohar Umakant Ainapur
| successor9 = HR Algur
| party =[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| spouse = Shobha
| children = 2 sons
| website =
| footnotes =
| date = 23 September |
| year = 2006 |
| source = http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=170
}}

'''Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi''' (born 28 June 1952) is an Indian politician from [[Karnataka]] and currently a member of [[Lok Sabha]]. He was [[Union Minister of State]] for [[Drinking water|Drinking Water]] and [[Sanitation]] in 2016. He was member of the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and [[16th Lok Sabha|Sixteenth]] [[Lok Sabha]]. He was inducted into [[Narendra Modi|PM, Narendra Modi's]] government as a Minister of State for Drinking Water & Sanitation on July 5, 2016. He represents the [[Bijapur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bijapur]] constituency (2019-2024) and is currently a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] which he joined in 2002. He has also been a member of [[Janata Dal]] and Ramakrishna Hegde's Vedike Party and Ram Vilas Paswan's Jan Shakti Party in 2001 when Hegde was planning to retire.

==Political career==
Ramesh Jigajinagi was born on 28 June 1952 in [[Atharga]] village of [[Bijapur district, Karnataka|Bijapur District]] in [[Karnataka]] to Chandappa and Bhoramma Jigajinagi. He is married to Shoba and has two sons. He completed his graduation from BLDEA's New Arts College, Bijapur in the faculty of Arts and later earned his master's degree as well.<ref>[http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=170 Members' profile fourteenth Loksabha, Parliament of India] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313134414/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=170 |date=13 March 2007 }}</ref> Ramesh hails from a [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|Scheduled Caste]] community and has been able to retain support in the areas of northern Karnataka, even after switching alliances and parties.
His electoral victory is significant, contesting and winning his seat against [[B. Shankaranand]] of the [[Indian National Congress]]'. Ramesh entered the 12th Lok Sabha with a margin of 1,31,238 votes.<ref>[http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12kn26.htm Parliament of India's website]</ref>

Initially, he joined the undivided [[Janata Dal]] under the mentorship of [[Ramakrishna Hegde]]. He remained in the Janta Dal and was a staunch supporter of Ramakrishna Hegde. When Ramakrishna Hegde floated the '''Rashtreeya Nava Nirmana Vedike''', Ramesh Jigajinagi was among the earliest sitting MLAs to support him and join the new party by resigning his ministership. Later, he joined [[Lok Shakti]], a party formed by Ramakrishna Hegde and rejoined Janata Dal United after the merger of Lok Shakti with the former. After the death of his mentor, he joined the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].

==Positions held==
* Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly 1983- 1985, 1985-1989, 1994-1999 (3 terms)
* Minister of State, Home Department in the Government of Karnataka 1983
* Minister of State, Excise Department in the Government of Karnataka 1984-1985
* Cabinet Minister for Social Welfare and Revenue in the Government of Karnataka 1996-1998
* Member of the 12th Loksabha 1998-1999 (Winning Margin=131238). From Chikkodi.
* Member of the 13th Loksabha 1999-2004 (Winning Margin=84590)
* Member of the 14th Loksabha 2004-2009 (Winning Margin=43492), for BJP.
* Member of the 15th Loksabha 2009-2014 (Winning Margin=42404) From Bijapur.
* Member of the 16th Loksabha 2014- 2019 (Winning Margin=69819)
* Member of the 17th Loksabha 2019 - (Winning Margin = 2,58,038)
* He has served as the member in the following committees
* Parliamentary Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance
* Parliamentary Committee on Absence of Members from the sittings of the House
* Parliamentary Committee on Commerce
* Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs and its Sub-Committee on Personnel Policy of Central Para-Military Forces
* Union Minister of State for Drinking Water & Sanitation 2016

==See also==
* [[Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha]]

==Notes==
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://electionaffairs.com/results/constituency-wise_results_indian_elections_2009.cfm?pc_name=Bijapur&year=2009&ST_NAME=Karnataka |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-05-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519151419/http://electionaffairs.com/results/constituency-wise_results_indian_elections_2009.cfm?pc_name=Bijapur&year=2009&ST_NAME=Karnataka |archive-date=19 May 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060218105133/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/homepage.asp?mpsno=170 Ramesh Jigajinagi's home page on Lok Sabha's Website]

== References ==
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{{Cabinet of Narendra Modi}}
{{15th LS members from Karnataka}}
{{16th LS members from Karnataka|state=expanded}}

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