Ashok Kheny

Ashok Maharudrappa Kheny is an Indian film producer, actor, director, businessman, politician, social worker and owner of Karnataka Bulldozers cricket team, and chairman of the Indian Institute of Cartoonists, also Managing Director of the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises Limited. (NICE Road Ltd). also Director of IIIE Limited. He was Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Bidar South Vidhan Sabha constituency from 09 May 2013 to 15 May 2018.
He is a graduate of Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka.
Kheny has been in the news for his scuffles with former Prime Minister of India H. D. Deve Gowda over the land acquisition for the BMIC project.
Kheny received the Outstanding Businessman of the Year from a Minority community award for 1987, conferred by the then President of the United States Ronald Reagan.
Kheny owns the cricket team Karnataka Bulldozers in the Celebrity Cricket League.
Indian Institute of Cartoonists.
In 2004, Kheny, an ardent admirer of cartoons, became an Honorary Chairman of the Indian Institute of Cartoonists. He dedicated the institute 5000 square feet of premises in the heart of Bangalore to establish the Indian Cartoon Gallery, the first of its kind in India.