Baburao Chinchansur

Baburao Chinchansur is an Indian politician and who served as an MLA represented Gurmitkal for three terms and Chittapur for two terms from the state of Karnataka and served as a Minister of Textiles, Ports & Inland Transport of Karnataka from 2013 to 2016. He also served as a Member of Karnataka Legislative Council from 2022 to 2023.
Baburao Chinchansur has been appointed as Karnataka State Border Area Development Authority Chairman in 2016.

Early life

Chinchansur was born in a Koli family to Basavannappa Chinchansur and hails from Gulbarga in Karnataka. He did his Master of Arts from Mysore University.

Political career

Baburao Chinchansur has been elected as MLA for 5 terms, 3 terms from Chittapur Assembly constituency, 2 terms from Gurmitkal Assembly constituency. He was the Minister for Textiles Ports & Inland Transport in K. Siddaramaiah led Indian National Congress Karnataka Government. After losing in 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 29 August 2018.

BJP

After joining BJP in 2018, On 30 July 2022, BJP gave a ticket to Chinchansur for MLC by-polls. On 5 August 2022, he unopposed got elected as a Member of Karnataka Legislative Council. Later on 20 March 2023, he resigned from his post.
On 22 March 2023, two days after his resignation from the MLC, Chinchansur joined Indian National Congress.