D. V. Sadananda Gowda
DV Sadananda Gowda ( Devaragunda Sadananda Gowda Venkappa; Kannada: .. ಡಿ ವಿ ಸದಾನಂದ ಗೌಡ [ sʌdɑ ː nʌndʌ gau̯ɖʌ ]; born March 18, 1953 in Mandekolu ) is an Indian politician of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ). He was chief minister 2011-2012 ( head of government) of the state of Karnataka.
Biography
DV Sadananda Gowda was born on 18 March 1953 as the son of Venkappa Gowda and Kamala in the village Mandekolu near Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district in the coastal region 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. Sadananda Gowda made a Bachelor of Science in Puttur and then a Bachelor of Laws in Udupi. In 1976 he began to practice as a lawyer. DV Sanananda Gowda has been married to his wife Datty Sadananda since 1980. The couple has a son.
His political career began DV Sadananda Gowda in the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS), which went up in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ) in 1980. After he had held various party offices at the district level, he took over from 1983 to 1989 the leadership of the BJP Yuva Morcha ( youth organization of the party ) in Karnataka. 1989 candidate Sadananda Gowda first unsuccessful in the election to Karnataka Legislative Assembly ( the lower house of the federal state parliament). At the next election in 1994, but he was successful and was able to defend his constituency Puttur in 1999. During his second term he was from 1999 to 2004 Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Sadananda Gowda in 2004, was elected in the constituency of Mangalore in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the total Indian Parliament. In the 2009 election, he stepped to the constituency Udupi - Chikmagalur and was again successful. After his election as Chief Minister of Karnataka Sadananda Gowda resigned his Lok Sabha - seat. Instead, he settled in a by-election in the Legislative Council ( the upper house of Karnataka ) select (prerequisite for the office of the Chief Minister is a parliamentary seat in the state ).
After the Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, the BJP government in Karnataka led since 2008, had in 2011 to resign over a corruption scandal, is DV Sadananda Gowda put against his factional rival Jagadish Shettar, Minister for Rural Development in the Cabinet Yeddyurappas, through and was developed by the BJP Group determines to succeed the retiring Government. On 4 August 2011, he was sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka. Against the backdrop of widespread voices that suggest Yeddyurappa will continue in the background pulling through the choice of his confidant the threads and prepare his return to office of the Chief Minister, Sadananda Gowda was forced to clarify that he would not govern as a " puppet Yeddyurappas ". When Yeddyurappa was acquitted in March 2012, charges of corruption and was preparing to return to power, to Sadananda Gowda opposed but whose ambitions. Yeddyurappa then transferred his support to Jagadish Shettar. It was followed by an internal party crisis, in which especially the Lingayat Sadananda Gowda Group refused their support and banged on the side of this caste also belonging Shettar. On June 29, 2012 were nine ministers back from Sadanada Gowdas Cabinet and openly opposed the government. On July 11, 2012 Sadananda Gowda had to eventually give up the post of Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar in favor of.