Vadigenahalli Munishamappa Muniyapppa popularly known as V.Muniyappa (born 20 april 1947) is an Indian politician who was the Minister of Sericulture department (1991), Minister of Energy(1993) and Minister of Mines & Geology(1999) in cabinet of S. Bangarappa, Veerappa Moily and S. M. Krishna Respectively. Currently he is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Sidlaghatta Constituency. He was contesting Member of the Legislative Assembly elections from Sidlaghatta (Vidhana Sabha constituency) of Chikkaballapur district since 1983 as a candidate of Indian National Congress. He is the one of the senior Leader of Indian National Congress- Karnataka and elected 6 times as Member of the Legislative Assembly from Sidlaghatta. As a token of honesty, sincerity, loyalty towards party he was selected as a candidate to contest Member of Legislative Assembly for 9 times and 1 time for Member of Parliament(1996) .[1]