Deve Gowda
Deve Gowda was born on 18 May 1933 in Haradanahalli
village of Holendarasipura
taluk, Hassan District, Karnataka in a vokkaliga caste family. He earned his Diploma in
Civil Engineering from Smt. L. V. Polytechnic, Hassan, Karnataka. He married
Chennamma and the couple have four sons and two daughters. His parents, Dodde
Gowda and Devamma, were from a middle-class agricultural background. Gowda
joined the Indian Indian
National Congress party in 1953 and remained a member until 1962. In 1962, Deve Gowda was elected to the Karnataka
Legislative Assembly from Holenarasipura constituency as an independent candidate. Later, he was
elected from the same constituency to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly for
six consecutive terms from 1962 to 1989. He joined congress(O) during the Congress split and served as the
Leader of Opposition in the Assembly from March 1972 to March 1976 and again
from November 1976 to December 1977. During the Emergency (1975–77), he was imprisoned in the
Bangalore Central Jail. Deve Gowda was twice the President of state unit of the Janata Party. He served as a minister in the
Janata Party Government in Karnataka headed by Shri Ramakrishna Hegde from 1983 to 1988. He became President of
the state unit of Janata Dal in 1994 and was the driving force behind
the victory of the party in the 1994 State Assembly elections. He was elected
from the Ramanagara constituency sworn in as the 14th chief
Minister of Karnataka in December 1994.In the 1996 general elections , the Congress
party headed by P.V Narsimha Rao lost decisively but no other party won
enough seats to form a government. When the United Front (a conglomeration of non-Congress and
non-BJP regional parties) decided to form the Government at the Centre with the
support of the Congress, Deve Gowda was unexpectedly chosen to head the
government and became the 11th Prime minister of india. He
took over as Prime Minister of India on 1 June 1996 and continued until 11 April
1997. . Later Deve Gowda and InderKumar Gujral too became prime ministers heading the
United Front (UF) coalition governments in 1996 and 1997 respectively.
An Indian politician He was the Prime Minister of
India from June 1996 to April 1997. Previously he was the 14th Chief
Minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996.
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