D. V. Sadananda Gowda

D. V. Sadananda Gowda
Minister of Law and Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 November 2014
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Ravi Shankar Prasad
Minister of Railways
In office 26 May 2014 – 9 November 2014
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Mallikarjun Kharge
Succeeded by	Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu
Chief Minister of Karnataka
In office 4 August 2011 – 12 July 2012
Governor	Hans Raj Bhardwaj
Preceded by	B. S. Yeddyurappa
Succeeded by	Jagadish Shettar
Personal details
Born	Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda 18 March 1953 Sullia, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)	Datty Sadananda
Children	Karthik Kaushik
Alma mater	St. Philomena’s College, Puttur Vaikunta Baliga College of Law
Religion	Hinduism
Website	Official website

Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda (born 18 March 1953) is an Indian politician who was the 20th Chief Minister of Karnataka and is currently the Minister of Law and Justice in the Government of India. He was shifted from the Ministry of Railways in the cabinet reshuffle of 9 November 2014.^[1] He is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha representing the Bangalore North constituency.

Early life

Sadananda Gowda was born in 1953 to Venkappa Gowda and Kamala of Mandekolu Village in Sulya taluk Karnataka.^[2][3]

Gowda graduated in Science from the St. Philomena College, Puttur and then went on to obtain his degree in law at Udupi Vaikunta Baliga College of Law. He became active in student politics during this period and was elected as the General Secretary of the Students Union of the Law College. Subsequently, he became the District General Secretary of the ABVP

In 1976, he started practising law at both Sulya and Puttur. He was a public prosecutor for a brief period in Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district but resigned his job to concentrate on his political career.^[4]

Political career

He began his political career as a member of the Jan Sangh. He was President of the party's Sulya Assembly segment. After the split of the Janata Party, he became a member of the BJP. Later on, he served the BJP as Dakshina Kannada BJP Yuva Morcha President, Dakshina Kannada BJP Vice-President, State BJP Yuva Morcha Secretary (1983–88), State BJP Secretary (2003–04) and National Secretary of the party (2004).

Sadananda Gowda was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1994 and 1999 from the Puttur Assembly seat in Dakshina Kannada. He became Deputy Leader of the Opposition in his second term as MLA. He has served in various committees of the Karanataka State legislature including the Cell for preparing Draft Bill on prohibiting Atrocities on Women, Karnataka, the Committee of Energy, Fuel and Power, and the Committee for Public Undertaking. He was nominated as the President of the Public Accounts Committee in 2003.^[5]

He was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004 from the Mangalore Lok Sabha seat,defeating Veerappa Moily of the Indian National Congress by a margin of 32,314 votes.^[6] In 2009, the party shifted him to the Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency.^[7] In parliament, he was on the Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests. In the 14th Lok Sabha, he was a member of the Committee on Commerce. Government of India had appointed him as Director of Coffee Board during January 2005.

In 2006, Sadananda Gowda was appointed as President of Karnataka State BJP. He earned National prominence being the President when BJP won an assembly election for the first time in South India in May 2008.^[8]

He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Udupi Chikmagalur Constituency before he became the Chief Minister of Karnataka.

Sadananda Gowda was chosen as the Chief Minister of Karnataka in August 2011 following the resignation of his mentor B.S. Yeddyurappa in an illegal mining case. Handpicked by Yeddyurappa, he was the second ethnic Tuluva Chief Minister of Karnataka after Veerappa Moily. As Chief minister, he strived hard to improve the image of his party that had been tarnished due to allegations of corruption. He introduced various schemes such as Sakaala, aimed at providing time bound services at government offices. But within a few months of becoming Chief Minister, he fell out with Yeddyurappa and was unable to unite the various factions of the party. In July 2012, he was asked to resign to make way for Jagadish Shettar when dissident activities in the party peaked.^[9]

After suffering big loss in May 2013 elections, BJP elected DV Sadananda Gowda as the opposition leader of legislative council in Karnataka.^[10]

On 26 May 2014, Sadananda Gowda was sworn in as a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's newly elected government. He was put in charge of the Ministry of Railways.^[11] He presented his maiden budget on 8 July 2014.

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Co-operative field

Sadanada Gowda has served in the Co-operative Movement in Karnataka in various capacities:

• Vice-President of SCDCC Bank, Mangalore
• Director, SKACM Society, Mangalore

• Director, CAMPCO, Mangalore (1991–94)
• President, Mandekolu S.C.Society, Mandekolu, Sullia
• Member, State PLD Bank staff Selection Committee (1989–90)

Labour movement

Sadanada Gowda has worked for the labour movement being the General Secretary of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Puttur Division and President of Sullia Taluk Auto Rickshaw Drivers and Owners Union.

Family and personal life

Sadananda Gowda is married to Datty Sadananda and has a son, Karthik Gowda who is an engineer. His elder son, Kaushik Gowda, who was a medical student, died in a road accident near Puttur in 2003.^[13] He is interested in Yakshagana, Folk Arts of Dakshina Kannada and also in Shuttle Badminton and Tennis.

Positions held

• 1983–1988 State Secretary, BJP Yuva Morcha, Karnataka
• 1994–2004 Member, Karnataka Legislative Assembly (two terms)
• 1995–1996 Member, Cell for preparing Draft Bill on Prohibiting atrocities on Women, Government of Karnataka
• 1999–2004 Deputy Leader of Opposition, Karnataka Legislative Assembly
• 1999–2001 Member, Committee on Commerce
• 2001–2002 Member, Committee for Energy, Fuel & Power, Karnataka Legislative Assembly
• 2002–2003 Member, Public Undertaking Committee, Karnataka Legislative Assembly
• 2003–2004 President, Public Accounts Committee, Karnataka Legislative Assembly
• 2004 Elected to 14th Lok Sabha
• 2006–2010 State President, BJP, Karnataka
• 2006–2009 Member, Committee on Commerce
• 2006–onwards Member, Sub-committee of the Department Related Parliamentary standing Committee on Commerce for Special Economic Zones
• 2009 Elected to 15th Lok Sabha
• 2011–2012 Elected as 20th Chief minister of Karnataka
• 2013 Elected as the leader of opposition of Karnataka legislative council
• 2014 Elected to 16th Lok Sabha from Bangalore North and took oath as Central Railway Minister
• 2015-Cabinet Minister-Law & justice

References

1. "Manohar Parrikar gets Defence, Suresh Prabhu Railways, Sadananda Gowda shifted to Law and Justice". CNN IBN. Press Trust of India. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
2. "I will strive for development of Tulu: Gowda". The Times of India. 24 June 2009.
3. "Mangalore : D V Sadananda Gowda – Destiny's Child".
4. About DVS | D V Sadananda Gowda :: Chief Minister of Karnataka
5. "Lok Sabha Website Detailed Profile: Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda".
6. "Moily loses to Sadananda Gowda". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 14 May 2004.
7. "DV Sadananda: The dark horse from the coast".
8. "Sadananda Gowda, a genial but canny politician".
9. "BJP latest: Gowda out, Shettar in". 8 July 2012.
10. "Jagadish Shettar, DV Sadananda Gowda elected opposition leaders". 15 May 2013.
11. "Narendra Modi government: Full list of portfolios and ministers". The Indian Express. 27 May 2014.
12. http://www.ndtv.com/article/cheat-sheet/rail-budget-2014-minister-sadananda-gowda-promises-to-take-politics-out-of-railways-554781
13. "Sadananda Gowda to head State BJP". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 18 March 2006.

External links

• Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha – Parliament of India website
• BJP Karnataka
• DV Sadananda Gowda
• D. V. Sadananda Gowda at the Internet Movie Database