Shri Ajjikuttira Kariappa Subbaiah (9 August 1934 – 27 August 2019) was the Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council, and a four time Member of the Legislative Council of Karnataka state in India.

[2] AKS started his career as a second division clerk in the health department before moving on to get his bachelor's degree in Science (BSc).

AKS graduated with a Bachelor of Law (BL) degree from Sharada Vilas college in Mysore in 1963 and was first elected to the Karnataka council in 1966 from the Jana Sangha party.

[citation needed] Subbaiah was elected as first president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1980.

[3] The first non-congress government in Karnataka was then formed by Shri Ramakrishna Hegde with outside support from AKS and the 18 BJP MLAs (Members of Legislative Assembly).