N. H. Shivashankara Reddy

Nagasandra Hanumantha Shivashankara Reddy is an Indian politician who is a former Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the INC. He is the former deputy speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and 2018 Agriculture minister of Karnataka.He was a Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Gauribidanur legislative constituency for five consecutive terms and for the sixth time he contested unsuccessfully.

Political career
Reddy was first elected to the Karnataka legislative assembly in 1999 as an independent candidate after being denied an INC ticket. Prior to this, he had served at the village council level. In the subsequent three State legislative assembly elections, Reddy contested as an INC nominee and won each time.

In July 2013, he was elected the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly in a unanimous election upon being the only candidate to file the nomination papers. He was denied entry into Siddaramaiah's cabinet inspite of serving as an MLA for a long time.

He was the Minister for Agriculture in H D Kumarswamy's second cabinet.

In 2023 General Elections to Legislative Assembly, Gauribidanur constituency, he lost by a margin of about 37,000 votes to K H Puttaswamy Gowda(Independent).

Personal life and education
Reddy was born on 24 September 1954 in a Vokkaliga family in H. Nagasandra, a village in Gowribidanur taluk, (in present-day Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka) to Subhashanamma and N. S. Hanumantha Reddy. An affluent family, it consisted of multiple independence activists. Reddy holds a bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.