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Siddaramaiah
22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka
Assumed office
13 May 2013
GovernorH. R. Bhardwaj
Konijeti Rosaiah
Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala
Preceded byJagadish Shettar
ConstituencyVaruna, Mysore
Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka
In office
31 May 1996 – 7 October 1999
Preceded byJ. H. Patel
Succeeded byhimself
ConstituencyChamundeshwari, Mysore
In office
28 May 2004 – 5 August 2005[1]
Preceded byhimself
Succeeded byM. P. Prakash
ConstituencyChamundeshwari, Mysore
Personal details
Born (1948-08-12) 12 August 1948 (age 75)
Siddaramanahundi, Mysore State, India
(now in Karnataka, India)
Political partyHand INC Indian National Congress (since 17 years, 339 days)
Other political
affiliations		Indian Election Symbol Lady FarmerJanata Dal (Secular) (until 2006)
SpouseParvathi
Children2
Alma mater
WebsiteGovernment website

C. Siddaramaiah (born 12 August 1948)[2] is an Indian politician and present Chief Minister of Karnataka since 2013. Currently a leader of the Indian National Congress party,[3] Siddaramaiah was a member of various Janata Parivar factions for several years.[4] Earlier, as a Janata Dal (Secular) leader, he was Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka on two occasions.[5] On 13 May 2013 he was sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka.[6]

Early life

He was born to Siddarame Gowda and Boramma in a remote village called Siddaramanahundi in Varuna Hobli near to T.Narasipura of Mysore District in a farming family.[7] He had no formal schooling until he was ten but went on to do his B.Sc and Bachelor of Law from Mysore University. He is a leader of the Kuruba Gowda community.[8][9][10][11] He is the second amongst five siblings.[12]

Career

Siddaramaiah was a junior under a lawyer, Chikkaboraiah, in Mysore and later taught law for some time.[13]

Political career

Before 1978, he began political career when Nanjunda 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. This was a surprise victory for all and it earned him a lot of name and fame in the Old Mysore region.

Later he joined the ruling Janata Party and became the first president of the Kannada Surveillance Committee (Kannada Kavalu Samiti), set up to supervise the implementation of Kannada as an 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 at different stages.

He first suffered defeat in the 1989 Assembly elections, beaten by a veteran Congress leader, M. Rajasekara Murthy. 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. Patel became Chief Minister in 1996. After the split in the Janata Dal, he joined the Janata 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.[14]

Congress

In 2005, after differences with H. D. Deve Gowda, Siddaramaiah was expelled from JD (S). He wanted to form a regional party "ABPJD" in the state after quitting the JD (S), but he did not because regional parties formed earlier in Karnataka had not survived.[15] 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 against M. Shivabasappa of JDS, despite a fierce campaign against him by Deve Gowda, Chief Minister Kumaraswamy and Deputy Chief Minister Yeddyurappa in the constituency.[14] In the 2008 state Assembly elections, he contested from Varuna Constituency and was re-elected for the fifth time.

He won the 2013 election from the 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.[16] He had previously announced that the 2013 Assembly election would be his last election.[17]But he is going to contest in 2018 Karnataka assembly polls in 2 constituencies as the chief ministerial candidate of Indian National Congress.

Chief Minister of Karnataka

Siddaramaiah was elected as Chief Minister after Congress adopted secret balloting to select the new chief minister.[18][19] He led the Indian National Congress to victory by achieving an absolute majority in the 2013 Legislative Assembly election.[20]

Personal life

Siddaramaiah is married to Parvathi and had two sons: late Rakesh, who did a few film roles and Yathindra, who is a doctor. Rakesh died in July 2016 in Belgium due to multiple organ failure As revealed by the Facebook profiles of some of his friends who were traveling with him, they were possibly attending ‘Tomorrowland’, one of the world’s biggest electronic dance music festivals, held annually in Belgium.[21]

Siddaramaiah has stated on record that he is an atheist [22], though he has more recently clarified his public stance on the subject: "Word has spread that I am an atheist, which I am not. I am spiritual -- I have participated in festivities as child. I have visited some of the popular pilgrimage centres. But I am definitely against superstition, as I view everything from science point of view,".[23]

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
  • Minister for Higher Education

See also

References

  1. ^ Special Correspondent: Siddaramaiah, two others dropped., The Hindu, 6 August 2005.
  2. ^ "ಬಾಳಪಯಣ" [Biography] (in Kannada). Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  3. ^ "I'm Sidda-Rama and 100% Hindu: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah".
  4. ^ Raghuram, M. (10 May 2013). "Siddaramaiah: How a Mysore boy made it to the top". DNA. Mysore. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  5. ^ Kulkarni, Mahesh (8 May 2013). "Siddaramaiah - Profiling the front runner for K'taka CM". Business Standard. Bangalore. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  6. ^ "Siddaramaiah sworn in as Karnataka chief minister". Southmonitor.com.
  7. ^ Raghuram, M. (11 May 2013). "He was born headstrong: Siddaramaiah". DNA. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  8. ^ http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/apr/21spec.htm
  9. ^ http://scroll.in/article/662088/today-could-be-former-prime-minister-deve-gowdas-last-hurrah
  10. ^ Sudhir, T. S. (10 May 2013). "Deve Gowda, Kumaraswamy mutely watch Siddaramaiah's rise". Firstpost.com. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  11. ^ Hegde, Bhaskar (10 May 2013). "If denied CM gaddi, irked Siddaramaiah likely to revive AHINDA". Deccan Chronicle. Bengaluru. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  12. ^ Bennur, Shankar (11 May 2013). "Siddaramanahundi celebrates elevation of its proud son". The Hindu. Siddaramanahundi. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  13. ^ http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report-he-was-born-headstrong-siddaramaiah-1833203
  14. ^ a b "Siddaramaiah journey so far". The Times of India. Bangalore. 8 June 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  15. ^ "Siddaramaiah quits assembly, to join Congress soon". Whereincity. Bangalore. 19 July 2006. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  16. ^ "Siddaramaiah elected as CLP leader, set to be Karnataka CM". Hindustan Times. Bangalore. PTI. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  17. ^ Rajendran, S. (10 May 2013). "A decade-long wait ends for Siddaramaiah". The Hindu. Bangalore. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  18. ^ "Siddaramaiah elected Karnataka's new chief minister in secret ballot". The Times of India. Bangalore. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  19. ^ "Karnataka: Siddaramaiah elected Congress Legislative Party leader, set to be CM". CNN-IBN. Bangalore. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  20. ^ Siddaramaiah rated fourth most popular Chief Minister in the country
  21. ^ "Rakesh Siddaramaiah, Karnataka CM's son, dies in Belgium". The Indian Express. New Delhi. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  22. ^ "Siddaramaiah to file defamation case against Yeddyurappa". The Hindu. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  23. ^ "I'm not an atheist says Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah". Mail Today. 23 February 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2017.

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