Ramakrishna Hegde

Ramakrishna Mahabaleshwar Hegde ( Kannada: ರಾಮಕೃಷ್ಣ ಹೆಗಡೆ ) ( born August 29, 1926 in Siddapura Karnataka, † January 12, 2004 in Bangalore, Karnataka ) was an Indian politician.

Biography

Hegde has already participated as a young man in India's struggle for sovereignty and in 1942 was arrested for his participation in the Quit India Movement.

After India's independence it was the first time in 1957 (State Legislative Assembly ) later elected as a member of the Indian National Congress as a member of the Legislative Assembly and re-elected in the elections in 1962 and 1967. After working as a Deputy Minister, he was a Minister of the governments of the Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddhavvanahalli Nijalingappa and Veerendra Patil and was in their cabinets 1962-1971 Minister of Youth, Welfare and Sport, cooperation, industries, planning, Panchayati Raj, Development, information and publicity, customs and finance.

After splitting the party in 1969 he succeeded his mentor Nijalingappa in the Indian National Congress ( Organisation). He became a member of the Legislative Council (State 's Legislative Council ) of Karnataka in 1972 and was in this until 1978, leaders of the opposition. During this time, he also belonged to the politicians, the material to a union of opposition parties and the formation of Janata Party in 1977 campaigning. In 1978 he was MP for the upper house ( Rajya Sabha ) elected and represented in this until 1983, the interests of Karnataka.

In 1983 he was again elected to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka and re-elected in both 1985 and 1989.

On 10 January 1983, he eventually became Chief Minister of Karnataka and was the first Prime Minister of the State, who was not (any longer ) the Congress Party. During his tenure, he was in particular an for further development of the local Panchayati Raj system. In 1988, however, he had to resign.

He then became a member of the separated from the Janata Dal and Janata Party was called by their leader and Prime Minister V. P. Singh in December 1989 as Vice-Chairman of the National Planning Commission. This office he held until the end of Singh's term of office in November 1990.

In 1996, he competed as a candidate of Janata Dal for the Office of the Prime Minister, but lost in the internal party nominations the later prime minister HD Deve Gowda. For this reason, he resigned from the Janata Dal and Lok Shakti 1997 instead founded party, which formed a coalition with the Bharatiya Janata Party after the 1998 elections.

In the coalition government formed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 19 March 1998 he was appointed to the then Minister of Trade and Industry.