Halady Srinivas Shetty (born 6 April 1951) is a five-term MLA from Kundapur.^[1] He quit the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2012 after he was invited by BJP to take oath as a minister and later insulting him by denial of a ministerial position,^[2] fought and won the 2013 election as an independent candidate without the support of any political party, and rejoined the party before the 2018 assembly election.^[3] He is called ''ಕುಂದಾಪುರದ ವಾಜಪೇಯಿ (Vajapayee of Kundapura)'' due to his simplicity.