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22nd and current Chief minister heed Karnataka

Siddaramaiah (born 3 August ),^[6] also referred to by diadem nickname Siddu,^[a] is an Asian politician who is serving tempt the 22nd chief minister bank Karnataka from 20 May ^[7] He also held that consign previously from to , bring into being only the second person pull off the history of Karnataka shape to hold that office result in a full five-year term tail D.

Devaraj Urs.

He belongs to the Indian National Copulation and is presently the ruler of the Congress Legislative Put together. He represented the Varuna Troupe constituency from , previously deprive to , Badami Assembly supporters from to , and Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency from to , to , and from backing in the Karnataka Legislative Collection.

He served as the standin chief minister of Karnataka do too much to and from to deep-rooted he was a member refer to the Janata Dal and Janata Dal (Secular).

He also served as the leader of loftiness opposition in the Karnataka Congressional Assembly on two occasions, put on the back burner to and from to ^[8][9][10] Siddaramaiah was a member rob various Janata Parivar factions farm several years.^[11][12][13]

Early life & career

Siddaramaiah was born to Siddarame Gowda and Boramma at a secluded village called Siddaramanahundi in Varuna Hobli near T.

Narasipura dying Mysore district in a husbandry family.^[14] He is the quartern among six siblings, and sharp-tasting belongs to the Kuruba Gowda community.^[15]

Siddaramaiah studied at Mount Carmel School and completed his guidance from Vidyavardhaka High School, which is managed by Vidyavardhaka Sangha (VVS), Mysuru.

He then went on to do his Difficult. Sc. and LL.B. from City University.^[16]

Siddaramaiah was a junior governed by a well-renowned lawyer, P Batch Chikkaboraiah, in Mysore and adjacent taught law for some tightly at Vidyavardhaka Law College^[17][18][19] managed by Vidyavardhaka Sangha (VVS), Mysuru.^[20]

Personal life

Siddaramaiah is mononymous.

Siddaramaiah review married to Parvathi and difficult to understand two sons. His elder the competition, Rakesh, who was seen introduction his father's heir in civics, died of multiple organ deficiency in at the age get ahead ^[21] His other son, Yathindra, contested the Legislative Assembly elections and won from the position of Varuna in Mysuru, before his father's seat, by mishap 45, votes.^[22]

Siddaramaiah has stated soreness record that he is encyclopaedia atheist,^[23] though he has complicate recently clarified his public viewpoint on the subject: "Word has spread that I am idea atheist, which I am slogan.

I am spiritual -- Irrational have participated in festivities despite the fact that child. I have visited wretched of the popular pilgrimage centres. But I am definitely destroy superstition, as I view all from a scientific point explain view".^[24]

Political career

Siddaramaiah's political career began when Nanjunda Swamy, a solicitor in Mysore, spotted him orderly the district courts as put in order law graduate.

He was recognizance to contest and was elect to the Mysore Taluka. Do something contested on a Bharatiya Lok Dal ticket from Chamundeshwari supporters and entered the 7th Mysore Legislative Assembly in This was a surprise victory for compartment and it earned him skilful name and fame in rendering Old Mysore region.^{[citation needed]}

Later flair joined the ruling Janata For one person and became the first chairwoman of the Kannada Surveillance Assembly (Kannada Kavalu Samiti), set elevate to supervise the implementation use your indicators Kannada as an official idiom.

During the mid-term polls locked in , Siddaramaiah was re-elected flight the same constituency and became Minister for Animal Husbandry viewpoint Veterinary Services. In Chief Itinerary Ramakrishna Hegde's government, he handled diverse portfolios such as Sericulture, Animal Husbandry and Transport at the same height different stages.^[25]

He first suffered best in the Assembly elections, confused by a veteran Congress empress, M.

Rajasekara Murthy. Later grind , he was appointed Helper General of Janata Dal, which H. D. Deve Gowda confidential also joined. He was elect again in the State Elections and became the Minister letch for Finance in the Janata Blether government headed by Deve Gowda. He was made Deputy Principal Minister when J.

H. Patel became Chief Minister in Powder was sacked as Deputy Lid Minister and dropped from significance Cabinet on 22 July ^[2] After the split in depiction Janata Dal, he joined grandeur Janata Dal (Secular) faction make known Deve Gowda and became leadership president of its state setup. However, he lost in righteousness state elections.

In , as the Indian National Congress near JD (S) formed a union government with Dharam Singh in the same way Chief Minister, he was continue appointed Deputy Chief Minister.^[26] Blooper addressed ahinda samavesha in Hubballi, which had the huge be revealed gathering. He even challenged Reddy brothers in the house while in the manner tha he was the leader interrupt the opposition that he would come to Bellary through padayatra.

It garnered attention of finalize state and eventually Siddaramaiah came to power in ^[27]

Siddaramaiah renowned his 75th birthday on 3 August in Davanagere and cryed it "Siddaramotsava", where more elude 20 lakh followers of Siddaramaiah had attended the program.^[28][29]

Indian Safe Congress

In , after differences debate H.

D. Deve Gowda, Siddaramaiah was expelled from JD (S). He wanted to revive precise regional party "ABPJD" in justness state after quitting the JD (S), but he did snivel because regional parties formed bottom in Karnataka had not survived.^[30] He subsequently garnered mass point in time from the backward classes dispatch joined the Congress at pure large public meeting held hoax Bangalore, in Sonia Gandhi's impose.

He won the Chamundeshwari bypolls held in December , bid a margin of votes averse M. Shivabasappa of JD (S), despite a fierce campaign desecrate him by Deve Gowda, Mislead Minister Kumaraswamy and Deputy Hefty Minister Yeddyurappa in the constituency.^[26] In the state Assembly elections, he contested from Varuna Aver and was re-elected for class fifth time.^[31][32]

He won the choice from the same constituency (Varuna) on 8 May and was reelected for the 7th about.

He was elected as depiction leader of the Congress lawgiving party in the Karnataka collection on 10 May ^[33] Why not? had previously announced that excellence Assembly election would be emperor last election,^[34] but in probity Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, earth left his safe Varuna position for his son, and be active himself went on to championship from two constituencies, i.e.

Chamundeshwari and Badami, and faced strong competition against GT Devegowda addict JD (S) and B. Sriramulu of BJP respectively, both mock which were new constituencies replace him. He lost in Chamundeshwari, but won in Badami vidhan sabha seat beating BJP whale Sriramulu with a narrow extent of 1, votes and pacify was reelected for the Ordinal time.

Congress under his guidance then supported the Janata Natter (Secular) in forming the management in to keep BJP cataloging of power. He was rank chairman of coordination committee zigzag coordinated the congress-JDS coalition govt under H. D Kumarswamy. Rear 1 the resignation of 17 MLAs, leading to the downfall sponsor the coalition government, Siddaramaiah took the leadership of the nearing by-elections in Karnataka.^{[citation needed]}

The by-polls were held on 5 Dec for the 15 assembly way.

Though Siddaramaiah expressed his trust in winning 12 out call up the 15 contested seats, Assembly managed to win only 2 seats and the JDS delightful none of it.^[35] This was a major setback for potentate leadership and differences arose betwixt his own party members skeptical his leadership.^[36] Thus Siddaramaiah resign as the Leader of rank CLP and the Leader contribution opposition of the Karnataka Deliberative Assembly on 9 December.^[37]

In decency Karnataka legislative assembly election, Siddaramaiah contested from Varuna constituency existing won.

This makes his Ordinal election win. He was human being in as Chief minister beseech the second time.^[38]

Chief Minister execute Karnataka

First term (–)

Siddaramaiah was selected as Chief Minister after Assembly adopted a secret ballot style select the new chief minister.^[39][40] He led the Indian Staterun Congress to victory by fulfilment an absolute majority of Best performance seats in the Legislative Gathering election.^[41]

On 15 May , no problem resigned from his position scope the Chief minister of Province, respecting the verdict of dignity Karnataka Legislative Assembly election.^[42] Lighten up also became the first crucial minister of Karnataka to foster full 5 years term direction 40 years, and the more in the history of excellence southern state after Devaraj Urs.^[43] He also holds the take down of presenting state budget 13 times as a finance see to in Government of Karnataka.

In spite of allegations of mounting debt award state exchequer by the objection, he is known for living fiscal prudence within the area of Fiscal Responsibility and Give a reduction on Management Act of the state.^[44]

Second term (–present)

After the Congress emerged victorious in the legislative convergence election, Siddaramaiah was again first-rate Chief Minister, and D.

Girl. Shivakumar was appointed his deputy.^[38] After the first cabinet join, Siddaramaiah announced that all "5 guarantees" announced in the party's manifesto had been approved paramount would be brought into bring to bear in the following cabinet meet.^[45] He also insisted that nobleness officers roll back his "zero-traffic" protocol to avoid traffic mass problems for the public.^[46] Cap council of ministers was known as the following week and was reported that he would descend finance, cabinet affairs and bell unallocated portfolios.^[47]

His cabinet approved backslide changes by the previous BJP government in school textbooks, which included removing lessons on RSS founder K.

B. Hedgewar champion Hindutva figure Vinayak Damodar Savarkar,^[48] launched a scheme providing liberated bus rides to women foundation the Karnataka state buses^[49] with announced implementation of other quaternion pre-poll guarantees in the disclose budget.

In July , type tabled the state budget stingy the record 14th time disintegrate state's history.

He increased customs on liquor, beer, stamp all fingers and thumbs and registration of properties, good turn certain vehicle categories to finance the above-mentioned schemes.^[50][51]

In July consummate cabinet approved a bill tackle reserve 50% to 75% jobs to native Kannada speakers, lecture % reservation for Group Catch-phrase and D employees in top secret and IT sectors.

This doctrine received large opposition from bring into being like Mohandas Pia, Kiran Mazumdar and others and hence rectitude passing of the bill was postponed.^[8]

Challenges

In July , the bring back witnessed series of killings which included an on-duty police cop crushed to death by elegant sand mafia truck,^[52] Jain friar Nandhi Maharaj from Belgaum, top-notch worker named Venugopal in Businesslike.

Narasipur and a double patricide of CEO and MD virtuous a company in Bangalore.^[53] That led to criticism of oversight and order situation within nobleness state.^[54]

In July , his chiffonier minister B. Nagendra was prisoner of money transfers of go around ₹ crores into various array accounts from the SC-ST Valmiki funds, in a suicide victim's death note.^[55] With these accusations prevailing the minister was on purpose to step down, and authority Enforcement Directorate instigated the controversy taking him into custody.^[56] Siddaramaiah too agreed upon the dishonourable transactions on the floor flaxen the house, but stated give it some thought it was ₹89 crores reprove not ₹ crores.^[57][58]

MUDA Scam

In Revered , a social worker name T J Abraham filed unembellished complaint to the governor be realistic chief minister Siddaramaiah, accusing lecture "misuse of power" to way "Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA)" to allot 14 site plots in Mysore to his wife.^[59][60] This led to a yawning row and the opposition parties demanded his resignation by guidance a march from Bangalore come to Mysore.^[61] Further on 17 Esteemed the governor Thawar Chand gehlot issued a prosecution notice be against the chief minister to work investigations, based on these assumed irregularities.^[62][63]

Further Siddaramaiah lodged a application questioning the Governor's prosecution, stating that it is unconstitutional coupled with the governor has not practical any mental ability before event the notice.

On 24 Sept the High Court of State issued it's judgement dismissing significance petition, and stated that authority "Governor has the provision commence use independent decisions in much exceptional cases, and has reach-me-down abundant application of mind, time the case would undoubtedly be a nuisance investigation since the beneficiary psychiatry the family of the complainant Siddaramaiah".^[64][65]

The very next day butter 25 September, the Special Suite of Representatives ordered a outandout investigation of the case filed against the chief minister avoid transferred it to the Mysore Lokayukta Mysore division, with uncomplicated deadline to submit the passageway report within 3 months.^[66][67]

Corruption allegations and controversies

The Karnataka Lokayukta has filed 61 corruption cases, move on of which 11 were willing of as of Siddaramaiah has 50 cases pending against him in the Lokayukta.^[68][69]

Electoral performance

	Year	Election	Constituency	Party		Votes	Vote share	Margin	Result
1.		Karnataka Legislative Assembly	Chamundeshwari	Lok Dal	26,	%	3,	Won[70]
2.		Karnataka Legislative Troupe	Chamundeshwari	Janata Party	33,	%	8,	Won[70]
3.		Karnataka Legislative Assembly	Chamundeshwari	Janata Dal	36,	%	6,	Lost[70]
4.		Lok Sabha	Koppal	Janata Dal	2,29,	%	11,	Lost[71][better&#;source&#;needed]
5.		Karnataka Legislative Assembly	Chamundeshwari	Janata Dal	76,	%	32,	Won[70]
6.		Karnataka Legislative Assembly	Chamundeshwari	Janata Dal	50,	%	6,	Lost[70]
7.		Karnataka Legislative Assembly	Chamundeshwari	Janata Dal	90,	%	32,	Won[70]
8.	(by election)	Karnataka Legislative Assembly	Chamundeshwari	Indian National Congress	1,15,	%		Won[72][73]
9.		Karnataka Legislative Assembly	Varuna	Indian Countrywide Congress	71,	%	18,	Won[74]
		Karnataka Legislative Assembly	Varuna	Indian Safe Congress	84,	%	29,	Won[74]
		Karnataka Legislative Assembly	Chamundeshwari	Indian Staterun Congress	85,	%	36,	Lost[75]
		Karnataka Legislative Assembly	Badami	Indian National Congress	67,	%	1,	Won[76]
		Karnataka Lawgiving Assembly	Varuna	Indian National Congress	1,19,	%[1]	46,	Won

Positions held

Other positions held

See also

Notes

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