Gowdara Mallikarjunappa Siddeshwara (born 5 July 1952) is an Indian politician.
He was a former member of the Lok Sabha, the lower House of the Indian Parliament, representing Davangere of Karnataka since 2004.
Siddeshwara served as the Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises and prior to that, as Minister of State for Civil Aviation,[1] till he resigned from the Ministry after a few days of cabinet reshuffle in July 2016.
Mallikarjunappa was affiliated to the RSS before joining the BJP electoral politics.
[4][5] He was re-elected to the 16th Lok Sabha from Davangere for the third time successively with a margin of 17, 607 votes defeating his Congress rival.