Siddaramaiah

Siddaramaiah ( Kannada: ಸಿದ್ದರಾಮಯ್ಯ; born August 12, 1948 in Siddaramanahundi, Mysore district ) is an Indian politician (Congress Party) and since May 13, 2013 Office of the Chief Minister ( head of government) of the state of Karnataka. Since 2006 he is a member of the Congress Party, he previously was a member of the Janata Dal and Janata Dal ( Secular ).

Biography

Siddaramaiah was born into a poor peasant family on 12 August 1948 Siddaramanahundi village in the district of Mysore in Südkarnataka. It belongs to the Caste Kuruba, a low standing in the traditional caste hierarchy, but numerically strong shepherd caste. In the highly caste loyalties policy Karnataka Siddaramaiah enjoys the support of the Kuruba caste. Hailing from a Hindu family Siddaramaiah describes himself as an atheist, but that does not prevent him from public temple visits.

Siddaramaiah studied law at the Mysore University and then worked as a lawyer. His political career began when he was first elected in 1983 as an independent candidate in the Parliament Karnakatas. A little later, he joined the ruling Janata Party, emerged from the Janata Dal in 1988 (JD). At the election in 1985 Siddaramaiah defended his parliamentary seat and then served in the government as Minister Ramakrishna Hegdes of Animal Breeding and Veterinary Services. In the parliamentary elections in 1989 Siddaramaiah lost his constituency, but in 1994 he succeeded in re-entry. In the government's HD Deve Gowdas he held the post of finance minister. When Deve Gowda was appointed in 1996 to the all-India Prime Minister, Siddaramaiah was considered a successor candidate for the office of the Chief Minister in Karnataka, but could not prevail against JH Patel. When the Janata Dal split in 1999, Siddaramaiah Janata Dal the ( Secular ) (JD (S)) followed. At the next election in 1999, he again lost his constituency, but did it in 2004 to recapture.

2005 Siddaramaiah was excluded from the JD (S ), after he had with HD Deve Gowda, who patronized his son HD Kumaraswamy, fallen out. A year later, Siddaramaiah joined the Congress Party, for which he was elected in a by-election to parliament Karnataka in 2007. In the elections of 2008 and 2013, he was re-elected. As a result, the obtained by the Congress party election 2013, Siddaramaiah was able to beat the Union Minister Mallikarjun Kharge and became the new Chief Minister of Karnataka determined. On May 13, 2013, was sworn in office.