Jagadish Shettar

Jagadish Shettar ( Kannada: ಜಗದೀಶ್ ಶೆಟ್ಟರ್; born December 17, 1955 in Kerur, Bagalkot district ) is an Indian politician of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ). He was from July 2012 to May 2013 Chief Minister ( head of government) of the state of Karnataka.

Biography

Jagadish Shettar was born on December 17, 1955 at village Kerur near Badami in Bagalkot district today in the north Karnataka. He is Hindu and belongs to the Lingayat, one in Karnataka widespread and influential political caste. His father SS Shettar was a lawyer, politically active in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the predecessor of the BJP party, and Mayor of Hubli -Dharwad. Also Jagadish Shettars uncle Sadashiv Shettar Bharatiya Jana Sangh was active in and (now Karnataka ) were elected to the parliament of the state of Mysore in 1967. Jagadish Shettar initially charged a bachelor's degree in economics and then a Bachelor of Laws in Hubli. He has 20 years experience as a lawyer. From a 1984 closed marriage had two sons.

Jagadish Shettar began his political career in the BJP -affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad student organization. He was also a member of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh cadre organization (RSS). Jagadish Shettar was first elected in 1994 in the federal state elections in Karnataka for the BJP in the constituency Hubli Rural in the Legislative Assembly ( the lower house of the federal state parliament). In the elections of 1999, 2004, 2008 and 2013, he defended his constituency. From 1999 to 2004 Shettar was Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly. He became chairman of the BJP in Karnataka in 2005. When the BJP in 2006 a coalition with the ruling party Janata Dal ( Secular ) came in, Jagadish Shettar held the post of finance minister. After the coalition soon broken and the BJP had emerged from the due election with a majority, Jagadish Shettar in 2008 was first elected Speaker of Parliament and then appointed on 17 November 2009 to the Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj in the BJP government BS Yeddyurappas.

After the Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa had to resign because of a 2011 corruption scandal, Jagadish Shettar was one of the candidates to succeed him. Ultimately, however, DV Sadananda Gowda sat down with the support Yeddyurappas in internal party power struggle through and was determined by the BJP Group to succeed the retiring Chief Minister. Jagadish Shettar also retained in the government Sadananda Gowdas at his ministerial office. As BS 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 Group banged on the Shettars page Sadananda Gowda and eventually forced to resign. On 12 July 2012, Jagadish Shettar was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka. But His term of office lasted only ten months since the BJP lost the following election to the Congress Party. In response to the election defeat Jagadish Shettar filed on May 8, 2013, his resignation.