SIDDARAMAIAH
Siddaramaiah (born 12 August 1948) is an Indian politician who has been the 22nd chief minister of
karnataka, a state in south india,since 2013. Currently a leader of the Indian national congress party, Siddaramaiah was a member of various janata parivar factions for several years.Earlier, as a janata dal(secular) leader, he was Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka on two occasions. On 13 May 2013 he was sworn in as the new chief minister of Karnataka Siddharamaiah, an atheist, is known for his socialist, secular and anti-caste outlook.
Early
life
He was born to Siddarame Gowda and
Boramma in a remote village called Siddaramanahundi in Varuna Hobli of Mysore
district in a farmer family. He had no formal schooling till he was ten but
went on to do his B.Sc and Bachelor of Law from Mysore university . He is a
leader from the Kuruba Gowda community, the second largest in Karnataka. He is
the second amongst five siblings.
Career
Siddaramaiah was a junior under a
lawyer, Chikkaboraiah, in Mysore and later taught law for some time.
Political
career
Before 1978, he began political
career when Najunda Swamy, a lawyer in Mysore, spotted him at the district
courts as a law graduate. He was asked to contest and was elected to the Mysore
Taluka. He contested on a Bharatiya Lok Dal ticket from
Chamundeshwari constituency and entered the 7th Karnataka Legislative Assembly
in 1983. His was a surprise victory and it earned him name and fame in the Old
Mysore region.
Later he joined the ruling Janata party and became the first
president of Kannada Surveillance Committee (Kannada Kavalu Samiti) set up to
supervise the implementation of Kannada as official language. During the
mid-term polls in 1985, Siddaramaiah was re-elected from the same constituency
and became Minister for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services. In Chief
Minister Ramakrishna hegde’s government, he handled diverse portfolios such as
Sericulture, Animal Husbandry and Transport portfolios during different stages.
He first suffered defeat in 1989
Assembly elections in front of a veteran Congress Leader M.Rajashekara murhty Later
in 1992, he was appointed as Secretary General of Janata Dal which H.D.Deve
Gowda had also joined. He was elected again in the 1994 State Elections and
became the Minister for Finance in the janata dal government headed by Deve
Gowda. He was made Deputy Chief minister when J.H.Patil became Chief Minister
in 1996. After the split in the Janata Dal, he joined theJanata dal (secular)
faction of Deve Gowda and became the president of its state unit. However, he
lost in the 1999 state elections. In 2004, when the Indian
national congress and JDS formed a coalition government with Dharam
singh as Chief minister, he was again appointed as Deputy Chief Minister.
Congress
In 2005, after differences with Deve
Gowda, Siddaramaiah was expelled from JD (S). He wanted to form a regional
party in the state after quitting the JD-S, he did not because regional
parties, formed in Karnataka earlier did not survive. He subsequently garnered
mass support from the backward classes and joined the Congress at a large
public meeting held in Bangalore, in sonia gandhi's presence. He won the
Chamundeshwari bypolls held in December 2006, by a margin of 257 votes, despite
a fierce campaign against him by Deve Gowda, Chief Minister Kumaraswamy and
Deputy Chief Minister Yeddyurappa in the constituency. In the 2008 state
Assembly elections, he contested from Varuna Constituency and was re-elected
for the fifth time.
He won 2013 election from same
constituency on 8 May 2013. He was elected as the leader of the Congress
legislative party in the Karnataka assembly on 10 May 2013. He had previously
announced that 2013 assembly election would be his last election.
Chief
Minister of Karnataka
Siddaramaiah was elected as Chief
Minister, after the Congress adopted secret balloting route to select the new
chief minister. He led the Indian national congress to victory by achieveing an
absolute majority in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2013. Siddaramaiah rated fourth most popular Chief Minister in
India.
Personal
life
He is married to Parvathi and has
two sons: Rakesh, who has held a few film roles and helps his father, and
Yathindra, who is a doctor. He is an atheist, and took the chief minister's
oath in name of "Truth" instead of "God".
Positions
held
- Chief Minister of Karnataka (13 May 2013 – present)
- Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka (twice, 1996 and 2004)
- Minister for Finance
- Minister for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services (1985)
- Minister for Sericulture and Animal Husbandry
- Minister for Transport
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