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Biography
Shrimant Balasaheb Patil is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Kagwad in the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Indian National Congress.
Education
He completed SSLC (10th Standard) from Shri Siddeshwara High School, Mole which is affiliated to Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board, Bangalore in 1970. Later he did B.Sc graduation from College of Agriculture, Kolhapur (affiliated to Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri) in 1974.
Controversies
Operation Kamala
“Operation Kamala” (hybrid wordfrom the English Operation and the Kannada Kamala meaning "Lotus" an Election symbol of BJP.) was a term coined in 2008, when the BJP was in a situation similar to the current one and was three seats short of majority to form the government in Karnataka under B. S. Yeddyurappa. Former minister and minelord G. Janardhana Reddy worked out a method to circumvent the Anti-Defection Law and secured the support of legislators needed to take BJP past the majority-mark. Opposition parties alleged that the BJP is now expanding Operation Kamala nationwide. While BJP continues to deny this allegation.
He was one of the 15 MLAs fell for Operation Kamala and resigned in July 2019, effectively bringing down the H. D. Kumaraswamy-led coalition government of Indian National Congress and Janata Dal (Secular).