Karnataka education minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader BC Nagesh was defeated by the Congress' K Shadakshari, from the Tiptur constituency, by a margin of 17,652 votes during the 2023 Karnataka Assembly election on Saturday, 13 May.
At the centre of the hijab ban in educational institutions controversy, his loss also comes on the heels of supporting a controversial revision of school textbooks.
BJP candidate Nagesh won in 2008 and 2018 from this constituency while Congress' Shadakshari won and became MLA from this constituency in 2013. Nagesh was inducted as minister in 2021 after Basavaraj Bommai took charge as chief minister.