Ujaneshwar B. Banakar (born 4 May 1960) is an Indian politician from Karnataka.
[1] He won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election on Indian National Congress ticket.
He is the son of former speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly and three time MLA, B.G.
He lost on BJP ticket in 1999 and 2004 and then contested as an independent candidate without any success in 2008.
[5] Again he lost the 2018 Assembly election as a BJP candidate to B. C. Patil of Congress by a narrow margin of 555 votes.