M. Raghupathy

M. Raghupathy (1941 – 18 June 2022) was an Indian politician and senior leader of the erstwhile Janata Parivar (JNP) who served as the Higher Education Minister in the cabinet of former Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde from 1976 to 1982. He also served as MLC and was elected twice as MLA to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, once from the Shivajinagar constituency in 1983 and once from the Malleshwaram constituency in 1985.

From 1976 to 1982, he served as the Minister of Education and Information in the Government of Karnataka.

He first became an MLA in 1983 as a candidate of the JNP. He won by a margin of 7527 votes and represented the Shivajinagar constituency from 1983 to 1985. In 1985, he again contested as a JNP candidate, this time for the Malleshwaram constituency in the assembly election. He defeated the Indian National Congress party candidate Vijoilakshami Ram Bhat by a significant margin of 21,699 votes and represented the Malleshwaram constituency from 1985 to 1989. During his time as an MLA, he introduced free uniforms for students in state-run schools and provided free textbooks for children in government schools. and in 1999, for the Vidhan Sabha election from Malleswaram, but he did not win either election.

Death Raghupati died on 18 June 2022, at the age of 81 at his residence in Malleswaram.