K J George

Kelachandra Joseph George is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is currently serving as Cabinet Minister of Energy in the Government of Karnataka and as a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing Sarvagnanagar in Bangalore

He was a minister of large and medium-sized industry in the cabinet of H D Kumaraswamy and was the Minister for Bengaluru Development and Town Planning. He was previously the Home Minister of Karnataka. He was also the Minister of State (Independent Charge) Transport, Food, and Civil Supplies in the Veerendra Patil government and Cabinet Minister for Housing & Urban Development in the S. Bangarappa government.

George was born on 24 August 1946  in the Kingdom of Travancore (now in Kottayam, Kerala). His family moved to the Kodagu district of Karnataka in the 1960s.  His family founded the Kelachandra Group in 1980. George is married to Suja and has two children.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was the Minister of State (Independent Charge) Transport, Food, and Civil Supplies under Chief Minister Veerendra Patil and Cabinet Minister for Housing and Urban Development under Chief Minister Bangarappa.

Currently, he is a State Election Commission Member, the General Secretary K.P.C.C., a Member of the A.I.C.C., and a Working Committee Member of All India I.N.T.U.C. (Collected from public domain)