Actor Tara among three nominated to Legislative Council

Bangalore: Noted Kannada film actress Tara and two others have been nominated as members to the Karnataka Legislative Council.

Former Rajya Sabha MP, K B Shanappa and former MLA M D Lakshminarayan (both BJP) were the others whose nomination to the upper house was approved today by Governor H R Bhardwaj.

Governor Bhardwaj told reporters in Bangalore that he had cleared the proposal for nomination of the three members to the Council sent by Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar.

Tara currently heads the Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy and Lakshminarayana, the Karnataka Handloom Development Corporation.

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