N. Dharam Singh

N. Dharam Singh ( Narayan Singh Dharam Singh, Kannada: ಧರಮ್ ಸಿಂಗ್; born December 25, 1936 in Nelogi, District Gulbarga ) is an Indian politician of the Congress Party. He was chief minister 2004-2006 ( head of government) of the state of Karnataka.

Biography

N. Dharam Singh was born into a Rajputenfamilie on December 25, 1936 at village Nelogi Jevargi in Gulbarga district in the north of the present-day state of Karnataka. Some members of that originally lived in Rajasthan box group had immigrated from the 18th century to Hyderabad and Mysore, today represent the Rajputs in Karnataka a very small caste dar. Dharam Singh first made a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Arts from the Osmania University in Hyderabad. From a 1970 closed marriage produced three children. Dharam Singh's youngest son Ajay Singh has also embarked on a political career and was elected in 2013, the Parliament of Karnataka.

Dharam Singh began in the late 1960s a political career for the Congress Party. From 1968 to 1980 he was Chairman of the City Council of Gulbarga. In 1978 he was removed from the constituency Jewargi, first elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Federal State Parliament. In 1980, he joined successfully in the constituency Gulbarga in the election for Lok Sabha, the all-India House of Lords, gave his parliamentary seat but immediately back on, to allow his party colleague CM Stephen, who had failed in his constituency in a by-election in the collect Parliament. Instead, he came in the next election to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1983 again in the constituency Jewargi. He won the constituency and was able to defend him even for the next elections in 1985, 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2004. During this time he held several ministerial posts in the various Congress -led governments of Karnataka.

According to the Federal State election in 2004, the Congress Party was a coalition government with the party Janata Dal ( Secular ) (JD (S)), in order to form a government of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ), which had emerged as the strongest party in the election, but no own majority decreed to prevent. The JD (S ) prevailed with this is that the former Chief Minister SM Krishna has been replaced by the Congress party Dharam Singh by. Dharam Singh did it in good stead, that he did not belong to the politically competing big box of Karnataka. On 28 May 2004 he was sworn in as Chief Minister. Dharam Singh but remained less than two years in office: In early 2006 failed the JD (S ) under the leadership HD Kumaraswamys Dharam Singh allegiance to enter into a coalition with the BJP. Therefore, Dharam Singh was forced to resign from the office of Chief Minister on 28 January 2006.

In the election, after the failure of the BJP - JD (S ) coalition in Karnataka were due in 2008, Dharam Singh was defeated in his ancestral constituency Jewargi narrowly to the candidate of the BJP. In 2009, he stepped in to the all-India general election and was elected from the constituency in the Bidar Lok Sabha.

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