About

K. R. Ramesh Kumar is an Indian Politician and a member of the Indian National Congress from the state of Karnataka. Ramesh Kumar is a five-term member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. In June 2016 Ramesh Kumar was inducted into the Siddaramaiah led government of Karnataka as a cabinet minister. Ramesh Kumar holds the Health and Family Welfare Ministry portfolio in the Government of Karnataka.

Political life
Ramesh Kumar is from the Indian National Congress and represents Srinivaspur constituency of Kolar district, Karnataka. Ramesh Kumar started his political career in the seventies with the Indian National Congress later on he moved to the Janata Party in the mid-eighties. Subsequently, in the nineties Ramesh Kumar moved to the Janata Dal. In early two thousand he came back into the Indian National Congress. Ramesh Kumar won his first Karnataka Legislative Assembly election in 1978 by beating R. G. Narayanareddy by over 18000 votes. Ramesh Kumar fought on a Indian National Congress ticket. In the following Karnataka Legislative Assembly election of 1983 he lost the election to G. K. Venkatashiva Reddy by a narrow margin of only about 700 votes. In the 1985 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election Ramesh Kumar stood on a Janata Party ticket and won the seat by about 7000 votes beating G. K. Venkata Shiva Reddy of the Indian National Congress. In the 1989 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election Ramesh Kumar lost the seat to G. K. Venkata Shiva Reddy of the Indian National Congress by about 8000 votes. In the following 1994 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election Ramesh Kumar stood on a Janata Dal ticket and won the seat by about 4000 votes defeating G. K. Venkata Shiva Reddy of the Indian National Congress. In the 1999 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election Ramesh Kumar stood as an independent candidate and lost the assembly seat to G. K. Venkata Shiva Reddy of the Indian National Congress by about 1000 votes. In the 2004 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election Ramesh Kumar joined the Indian National Congress and fought on their ticket winning by over 8000 votes against G. K. Venkata Shiva Reddy who had by then joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. The 2008 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election Ramesh Kumar fought on a Indian National Congress ticket and lost his assembly seat by about 3500 votes to G. K. Venkata Shiva Reddy who was on a Janata Dal ticket. Ramesh Kumar is a sitting member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly as he won the 2013 assembly election on a Indian National Congress ticket beating G. K. Venkata Shiva Reddy of the Janata Dal (Secular) by 3000 votes.

Ministry
Besides holding the Health and Family Welfare Ministry portfolio. Ramesh Kumar in his forty-year Political career has held many posts in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and the Government of Karnataka.Ramesh Kumar was the Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from 27.12.1994 to 24.10.1999.