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The southern Indian state of Karnataka consists of 31 districts grouped into 4 administrative divisions, viz., Belagavi, Bengaluru , Gulbarga, and Mysore. Geographically, the state has three principal variants: the western coastal stretch, the hilly belt comprising the Western Ghats, and the plains, comprising the plains of the Deccan plateau.
Karnataka is one of the six states in India, where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses. The two houses are the Vidhan Sabha (lower house) and the Vidhan Parishad (upper house). In summer, the seat of the Legislative Assembly is in Bangalore, the capital of the state, while in winter it is at Belagavi, in the northern part ...
Speaker. U. T. Khader. Deputy Speaker. R. M. Lamani. Leader of the Opposition. R. Ashoka. Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Arvind Bellad. The 16th Legislative Assembly of Karnataka was formed following the 2023 Assembly election for all 224 seats. [1][2][3] The election were held on 10 May 2023 and the results were declared on 13 May 2023.
On 3 January 2023, BJP Karnataka state president Nalin Kumar Kateel in a party meet at Mangalore said that people should prioritise the issue of "Love jihad" over "road, gutter, drain and other small issues". [104] [105] [106] His comments were criticised by Congress leaders and several state BJP leaders also expressed unhappiness over the remarks.
A total of 1,973 companies in the state were found to have been involved in the IT sector as of 2007. [19] Karnataka is the only southern state to have land borders with all of the other four southern Indian sister states. The state covers an area of 191,791 km 2 (74,051 sq mi), or 5.83 per cent of the total geographical area of India. [20]
Karnataka Legislative Assembly: Footnotes; The Council was established in 1881 for the Princely State of Mysore. The princely state was merged with the Dominion of India and became Mysore State in 1947; Mysore State was re-organized to its current territorial state in 1956 and renamed as Karnataka on 1 November 1973.
The following is a list of the most populous cities in Karnataka state of India as per the 2011 census. There are 27 cities in Karnataka which have a population over 100,000. There are 27 cities in Karnataka which have a population over 100,000.
Bagalkot district (7 C, 14 P) Bangalore Rural district (8 C, 13 P) Bangalore Urban district (7 C, 47 P) Belagavi district (7 C, 38 P) Bellary district (7 C, 15 P) Bidar district (6 C, 11 P) Bijapur district, Karnataka (7 C, 18 P)