J. Krishna Palemar is a former member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Mangalore City North (and erstwhile Surathkal) and a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party, who had served as Minister of Environment and Ports in the B. S. Yeddyurappa government and as Minister for Ports, Science and Technology in the D. V. Sadananda Gowda Government.
He is a realtor, builder, businessman, and educationist.
He resigned as a Minister on 8 February 2012, during the Video clip controversy, when he was caught on camera viewing a pornographic video clip on a mobile device.
[1][2] He was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly in the following years.
This article about a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Karnataka is a stub.