Siddaramaiah: Early Life

Siddaramaiah
K Siddaramaiah (born 12 August 1944) is an Indian politician who has been the 22nd Chief Minister
of Karnataka, a state in South India, since 2013. Currently a leader of the Indian National
Congress party, Siddaramaiah was a member of various Janata Parivarfactions for several years.
[2]
Earlier, as a Janata Dal (Secular) leader, he was Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka on two
occasions.[3]On 13 May 2013 he was sworn in as the new chief minister of Karnataka.[4] K
Siddharamaiah, an atheist, is known for his socialist, secular and anti-caste outlook.
Early life[edit]
He was born to Siddarame Gowda and Boramma in a remote village called Siddaramanahundi in
Varuna Hobli near to T.Narasipura of Mysore District in a farming family.[5] He had no formal
schooling till he was ten but went on to do his B.Sc and Bachelor of Law from Mysore University. He
is a leader from the Kuruba Gowda community(recognised as Other Backward Class and it is 3rd
largest populated community in Karnataka and most populated in India.Kuruba Gowda are very
important in Karnataka politics and deciding factor for Chief Minister position), . [6][7][8][9] He is the
second amongst five siblings.[10]
Career[edit]
Siddaramaiah was a junior under a lawyer, Chikkaboraiah, in Mysore and later taught law for some
time.
Political career[edit]
Before 1978, he began political career when Najunda Swamy, a lawyer in Mysore, spotted him at the
district courts as a law graduate. He was asked to contest and was elected to the Mysore Taluka. He
contested on a Bharatiya Lok Dal ticket from Chamundeshwari constituency and entered the 7th
Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1983. His was a surprise victory and it earned him name and
fame in the Old Mysore region.
Later he joined the ruling Janata Party and became the first president of Kannada Surveillance
Committee (Kannada Kavalu Samiti) set up to supervise the implementation of Kannada as official
language. During the mid-term polls in 1985, Siddaramaiah was re-elected from the same
constituency and became Minister for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services. In Chief
Minister Ramakrishna Hegde's government, he handled diverse portfolios such as Sericulture,
Animal Husbandry and Transport portfolios during different stages.
He first suffered defeat in 1989 Assembly elections in front of a veteran Congress Leader M.
Rajasekara Murthy. Later in 1992, he was appointed as Secretary General of Janata Dal which H. D.
Deve Gowda had also joined. He was elected again in the 1994 State Elections and became the
Minister for Finance in the Janata Dal government headed by Deve Gowda. He was made Deputy
Chief minister when J. H. Patel became Chief Minister in 1996. After the split in the Janata Dal, he
joined the Janata Dal (Secular) faction of Deve Gowda and became the president of its state unit.
However, he lost in the 1999 state elections. In 2004, when the Indian National Congress and JDS
formed a coalition government with Dharam Singh as Chief minister, he was again appointed as
Deputy Chief Minister.[11]
Congress[edit]
In 2005, after differences with H D Deve Gowda, Siddaramaiah was expelled from JD (S). He
wanted to form a regional party "ABVPJD" in the state after quitting the JD-S, he did not because
regional parties, formed in Karnataka earlier did not survive.[12] He subsequently garnered mass
support from the backward classes and joined the Congress at a large public meeting held in
Bangalore, in Sonia Gandhi's presence. He won the Chamundeshwari bypolls held in December
2006, by a margin of 257 votes against M. Shivabasappa of JDS, despite a fierce campaign against
him by Deve Gowda, Chief Minister Kumaraswamy and Deputy Chief Minister Yeddyurappa in the
constituency.[11] In the 2008 state Assembly elections, he contested from Varuna Constituency and
was re-elected for the fifth time.
He won 2013 election from same constituency on 8 May 2013. He was elected as the leader of the
Congress legislative party in the Karnataka assembly on 10 May 2013.[13] He had previously
announced that 2013 assembly election would be his last election.[14]
Chief Minister of Karnataka[edit]

Siddaramaiah was elected as Chief Minister, after the Congress adopted secret balloting to select
the new chief minister.[15][16] He led the Indian National Congress to victory by achieving an absolute
majority in the May 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election.[17]
Personal life[edit]
He is married to Parvathi and has two sons: Rakesh, who has held a few film roles and helps his
father, and Yathindra, who is a doctor.[18][19] He is an atheist, and took the chief minister's oath in name
of "Truth" instead of "God".[20]
Positions held[edit]
Chief Minister of Karnataka (13 May 2013 present)
Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka (twice, 1996 and 2004)
Minister for Finance
Minister for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services (1985)
Minister for Sericulture and Animal Husbandry
Minister for Transport
Finance Minister

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Chief Minister of Karnataka[edit]

Chief Minister of Karnataka (13 May 2013 present)

Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka (twice, 1996 and 2004)

Minister for Finance

Minister for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services (1985)

Minister for Sericulture and Animal Husbandry

Minister for Transport

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