B. Rachaiah

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| name = Basavaiah Rachaiah

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|8|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Alur, Chamarajanagar District, British India

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| death_date = {{death date and age|2000|2|14|1922|8|10|df=yes}}{{cite web | url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1547088/ | title=Reference Made To The Passing Away Of Shri B. Rachaiah | publisher=Indian Kanoon | accessdate=1 May 2021}}

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| office = Governor of Kerala

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| term = 20 December 1990 – 9 November 1995

| predecessor = Sarup Singh

| successor = P. Shiv Shankar

| office2 = 6th Governor of Himachal Pradesh

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| term2 = 16 February 1990 – 19 December 1990

| predecessor2 = H. A. Brari
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| successor2 = Virendra Verma

| office3 = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

| constituency3 = Chamarajanagar, Karnataka

| term_start3 = 1977

| term_end3 = 1980

| predecessor3 = S.M. Siddaiah

| successor3 = Srinivasa Prasad

| office4 = Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha

| constituency4 = Karnataka

| term4 = 1974–1977 {{cite web | url=https://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/r.pdf | title=RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 1952–2003 | publisher=Rajya Sabha | accessdate=2 August 2018}}

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| party = Indian National Congress, Janata Dal

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| source = https://loksabha.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2514.htm

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Basavaiah Rachaiah (10 August 1922 – 14 February 2000[http://164.100.47.5/newsynopsis1/Englishsessionno/189/23022000.html RAJYA SABHA, February 23, 2000]) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Santhemarahalli{{Cite web |url=http://kla.kar.nic.in/4lamembers.html |title=Previous MEMBERS OF KARNATAKA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 4th |access-date=19 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308035547/http://kla.kar.nic.in/4lamembers.html |archive-date=8 March 2011 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=http://kla.kar.nic.in/3lamembers.html |title=Previous MEMBERS OF KARNATAKA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 3rd |access-date=19 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110306165637/http://kla.kar.nic.in/3lamembers.html |archive-date=6 March 2011 |url-status=dead}} and a member of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka.[http://164.100.47.5/Newmembers/alphabeticallist_all_terms.aspx Rajya Sabha Previous MEMBERS] He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Chamarajanagar Karnataka in 1977.{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2514.htm |title=Lok Sabha Profile |access-date=19 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826121411/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2514.htm |archive-date=26 August 2014 |url-status=dead }} He was the governor of Kerala and Himachal Pradesh{{Cite web |url=http://www.rajbhavan.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=41 |title=Previous Governor Kerala |access-date=19 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813042814/http://www.rajbhavan.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=41 |archive-date=13 August 2012 |url-status=dead}}[http://himachalrajbhavan.nic.in/information.html PAST GOVERNORS Himachal Pradesh] and a Dalit leader, a member of the Karnataka state cabinets headed by S. Nijalingappa, B. D. Jatti, Devraj Urs, Veerendra Patil, Ramakrishna Hegde and S. R. Bommai.

Rachaiah was born in 1922 in Chamarajnagar and was an advocate by profession. One of his sons in Law, B. B. Ningaiah, was a minister in the government headed by J. H. Patel. Rachaiah died in 2000 aged 77.{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysuru/siddaramaiah-launches-works-on-memorial-for-b-rachaiah/articleshow/60010098.cms | title=Siddaramaiah launches works on memorial for B Rachaiah | publisher=The Times of India | date=11 August 2017 | accessdate=1 May 2021}}