Karnataka: BJP leader Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri has been elected as the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Speaker. He was unanimously elected as the speaker of the Assembly.
Kageri represents the Sirsi constituency in the Uttara Kannada district.
The six-time MLA and former Karnataka education minister was elected unopposed.
Kageri succeeded K R Ramesh Kumar, who resigned shortly after the BJP won the trust motion in the Assembly on July 29.
He began his political career as an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad leader and was elected to the Assembly for the first time from the Ankola constituency in 1994, which he represented thrice till 2008.
After the delimitation of constituencies in Karnataka, he shifted to Sirsi and won from the seat in 2008, 2013 and 2018.
He had filed his nomination for the post of Assembly Speaker on Tuesday.
Read:|Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri files nomination for Karnataka's Speaker post
