S. M. Krishna
SM Krishna ( Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna; Kannada: ಎಸ್.ಎಂ. ಕೃಷ್ಣ; born May 1, 1932 in Somanahalli, Mandya district ) is an Indian politician (Congress Party). From May 2009 to October 2012, he was the Foreign Minister of India. Previously, he was from 1999 to 2004 Chief Minister ( head of government) of the State of Karnataka from 2004 to 2008 and Governor of the State of Maharashtra.
Biography
Early years
SM Krishna was born on 1 May 1932 at the village in the district of Mandya Somanahalli in the south of the present-day state of Karnataka. He is Hindu and is one of the Vokkaliga, a strong presence especially in the south Karnataka caste, which plays an important role in the marked box of loyalties policy Karnataka addition to also numerically strong Lingayat.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the Maharaja 's College in Mysore SM Krishna studied law at the University Law College in Bangalore, which he finished with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ). Later he graduated in 1959 with postgraduate studies at Southern Methodist University in University Park, Dallas, and a Fulbright Scholarship ( Fulbright Scholar ) at the Faculty of Law ( Law School ) of the George Washington University in Washington, DC. From a 1964 closed marriage came two daughters out.
Beginning of the political career
Shortly after his return to India SM Krishna began his political career, first in the Praja Socialist Party. In 1962 he was a deputy of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of the state of Karnataka, and was elected to this until 1967. During this time he was a delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Nations. He was first elected in a by-election in the constituency in the Mandya Lok Sabha, the lower house of the total Indian Parliament in 1968. After transferring to the Congress Party re-elected in 1971 Krisha, but came back in 1972. Between 1972 and 1977 he was a member of the upper house of the Parliament of Karnataka ( Karnataka Legislative Council ), Minister of Industry, Trade and Parliamentary Affairs of the Government of the State.
In 1980 he was re-elected as a representative of the constituency Mandya for the Members of the Lok Sabha and was part of this until the end of the 7th legislature in 1984. During this time he was in 1982 a member of the delegation to the United Nations. 1983 Krishna was appointed as Secretary of State for Industry in the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. After her death, he was 1984-1985 State Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Then he was again primarily in his home state of Karnataka politically active and initially from 1989 to 1992 and deputy speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Then in 1992 he became Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka and held that office until the end when the term of office of Chief Minister M. Veerappa Moily 1994. He became a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the total Indian Parliament, elected as a representative of Karnataka in 1996 and was one of this ten years until 2006.
Chief Minister, Governor and Secretary of State
SM Krishna was in 1999 as chairman of the Congress Party in Karnataka leading candidate in the parliamentary elections in the state and was named after the election victory of his party chief minister ( head of government) of Karnataka. Just at this time he gained a reputation as the father of modern Bangalore by the settlement of companies in the information technology. In addition, he was instrumental in the implementation of reforms in the electricity supply, the expansion of public-private partnership and the establishment of the Bangalore Advance Task Force. In 2004 he was re-elected as Member of Parliament. After the Congress party had as a result of the election has not its own majority and its coalition partner, the Janata Dal ( Secular ), made the separation of Krishna as a condition for participation in government, Krishna had to the Office of the Chief Minister to his party colleagues N. Dharam Singh exits.
2004 Krishna became governor of the state of Maharashtra, however, declared on 5 March 2008 its intention to withdraw. One day later, President Pratibha Patil accepted his resignation. In October 2008, Krishna was re-elected as a representative of Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha.
On 22 May 2009 Krishna was finally appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Cabinet and thus the successor of Pranab Mukherjee. In September 2009, he got together with the Deputy Foreign Minister and former Deputy UN Secretary-General for Public Information Shashi Tharoor in the headlines. The allegations of nights in luxury hotels at the expense of taxpayers turned out to be incorrect and both agreed that these visits were paid privately by them. Nevertheless, both according to a statement by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee refrained from further such stays. In February 2011, the 78 -year-old at the UN read about three minutes on a script that actually belonged to Portugal's Foreign Minister Luis Amado.
On October 26, 2012 Krishna resigned from his office to release his post in advance of a major cabinet reshuffle. Salman Khurshid successor.