What is A. Krishnappa?
{{Infobox person | name = A Krishnappa | image = A Krishnappa.jpg | caption = Portrait of Sri A Krishnappa | birth_date = {{birth date|1945|04|10}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|04|23|1945|04|10}} | death_cause = Cardiac arrest | monuments = Krishna Mahal | nationality = Indian | occupation = Politician }} '''A. Krishnappa''' (10 April 1945 - 23 April 2014) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[politician]]. In 1985, he was elected as Member of the [[Legislative Assembly]] for the [[Varthur]] [[Assembly Constituency]] in the [[States and union territories of India|state]] of [[Karnataka]]. Krishnappa was a member of the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]] for almost three decades. After he left it he joined the [[Janata Dal (United)|Janata Dal]] party. He contested as the Janata Dal candidate from [[Tumkur]] parliamentary constituency in the next elections and was confident of winning the seat. Being a former minister and a leader of backward classes as well, he was elected as the state president in the month of September 2013 after [[H D Kumaraswamy]] gave up his position. Mr. Krishnappa served at the Varthur constituency for almost four courses, that is twenty years in total and worked as a Minister for Animal Husbandry, Social Welfare, Horticulture, and Sugar. Following the polls, Mr. Deve Gowda said to press persons of The Hindu that by naming A. Krishnappa, one thing had been confirmed. It is that the [[Janata Dal (United)|Janata Dal]] was not a political party of father and son as it was claimed by other political critics. “This is the testimony of the party’s concern for backward classes,” as mentioned in the news reports. In the year 2015, The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike election for the wards within the K R Puram Assembly Constituency had transformed into a personal argument between the Congress MLA, [[Byrati Basavaraj]], and former BJP MLA, [[N. S. Nandiesha Reddy]]. Until 2008, this con