Bhimappa Gundappa Gadad is an RTI (Right To Information) activist and a small agriculturist who hails from Mudalgi town of Mudalagi taluk in Belgaum district. He has been a whistleblower in many cases such as uncovering the amount of money spent on Prime minister Narendra Modi's foreign visits and also he exposed the arrears owed by politicians to government due to their over stay at government Bungalow as well as he was instrumental in making Karnataka Government admit that Yellur, Belgaum belongs to Karnataka.[1] [2] [3]
He contested 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election from Janata Dal (Secular) from Arabhavi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and was defeated against Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Balachandra Jarkiholi with a margin of 47,328 votes.[4]