Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda(H.D Deve Gowda) Born on May 18, 1933, Deve Gowda is an Indian politician who led India as its 11th prime minister from June 1, 1996, to April 21, 1997. Formerly, from 1994 to 1996, he served as Karnataka’s 14th Chief Minister. He now represents Karnataka as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He is the Janata Dal (Secular) party’s national president. He was up in an agricultural family and became a member of the Indian National Congress in 1953. He stayed in the party until 1962.
He was held captive during the Emergency. He was seen as a key player in the Janata Dal triumph in Karnataka when he was elected president of the state branch in 1994. From 1994 until 1996, he presided as Karnataka’s eighth chief minister. No party was able to secure enough seats in the general elections of 1996 to establish a government. Following the Congress’s backing of the United Front, a confederation of regional parties, Deve Gowda was unceremoniously selected to lead the government and elected prime minister. In addition to becoming prime minister, he was home minister for a while. He served as prime minister for just under a year. Following his term as prime minister, he was elected as a member of parliament for the Hassan Lok Sabha seat to the 12th (1998), 14th (2004), 15th, and 16th Lok Sabhas. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha after losing the 2019 Tumkur Lok Sabha elections.
Childhood
On May 18, 1933, in the village of Haradanahalli, in the Holenarasipura Taluk of the former Kingdom of Mysore (now in Hassan, Karnataka), H. D. Deve Gowda was born. Dodde Gowda, his father, farmed paddy fields, while Devamma, his mother, worked around the house.
Early in the 1950s, Gowda graduated with a diploma in civil engineering from L. V. Polytechnic, Hassan.
Politics
In 1953, Gowda became a member of the Indian National Congress party, which he did so until 1962. He served as the Anjaneya Cooperative Society of Holenarasipura’s president during that time and afterwards joined the Taluk Development Board of Holenarasipura.
Gowda was elected as an independent from the Holenarasipura constituency to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1962. Later, from 1962 until 1989, he was elected to the Assembly six times in a row from the same constituency. He became a member of the Congress (O) when the Congress split, and he led the opposition in the Assembly twice, from November 1976 to December 1977 and from March 1972 to March 1976. He spent the years 1975–1977 at the Bangalore Central Jail during the Emergency.
Gowda served as the state president of the Janata Party twice. On the Janata Party ticket, he won the Holenarasipur assembly segment again in 1978, 1983, and 1985. From 1983 until 1988, he was a minister in the Karnataka Janata Party Government led by Ramakrishna Hegde.
In 1994, he was elected President of the Janata Dal state unit, and he was instrumental in the party’s triumph in the State Assembly elections that year. He was sworn in as Karnataka’s 14th Chief Minister in December after winning an election in Ramanagara.
As Prime Minister (June 1996 – April 1997)
The P. V. Narasimha Rao-led Congress party narrowly lost the general elections of 1996, but no other party secured enough seats to establish a government.
Deve Gowda became the 11th Prime Minister of India when the United Front, a coalition of regional parties that were not affiliated with the Congress and not the BJP, agreed to establish the government at the federal level with the Congress’s backing. He became India’s prime minister on June 1, 1996, and served in that capacity until April 21, 1997. In addition, he presided over the United Front’s Steering Committee, which is the highest policy-making body comprising all of the front’s members. He is recognized for bringing the Delhi Metro Project’s finances together and igniting its development.
Post leadership period
V. P. Singh created the Janata Dal, which is where the Janata Dal (Secular) had its start.
In 1988, the Janata Party merged with smaller opposition parties to form the Janata Dal. When he led the National Front administration in 1989, Vishwanath Pratap Singh became the first Prime Minister of India to come from the Janata Dal. Later, in 1996 and 1997, respectively, Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral also assumed the position of prime minister, leading coalition administrations led by the United Front (UF).
In 1999, the party broke into sections after a few of its senior leaders chose to work with the NDA, which was led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Many prominent figures joined the Janata Dal (Secular) group led by Deve Gowda, who rose to become the faction’s national president, including Madhu Dandawate and Siddaramaiah.
Under Siddaramaiah’s leadership, the Karnataka 2004 elections saw a resurgence of his party’s fortunes, with the Janata Dal (Secular) securing 58 seats and joining the state’s ruling coalition. Later, in 2006, the party merged with the BJP to create a coalition government. For twenty months, the state’s BJP-JD(S) coalition administration was led by his son, H. D. Kumaraswamy. Although the party did not fare well in the 2008 state elections, winning only 28 seats, it is still a powerful force in South Karnataka.
Due to Siddaramaiah’s leadership of the AHINDA movement, which represented the Dalit, backward, and minority populations in Karnataka, Deve Gowda removed both him and CM Ibrahim of the JDS party. Subsequently, CM Ibrahim and Siddaramaiah both joined the Indian National Congress, which went on to win the 2013 Vidhana Sabha election. In 2013, Siddaramaiah was chosen to serve as the state of Karnataka’s chief minister.
In the Karnataka seat of Tumkur for the Lok Sabha, Deve Gowda ran against G. S. Basavaraj in the 2019 general elections. By a margin of 13,339 votes, G. S. Basavaraj, the BJP candidate for the Tumkur Constituency, defeated Deve Gowda. Deve Gowda received 5,82,788 votes, while G. S. Basavaraj received 5,96,127.
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Family
In 1954, he wed Chennamma. Together, they are parents to six children: two daughters and four sons, including politicians H. D. Revanna and H. D. Kumaraswamy, the former Karnataka chief minister.
Role occupied
In the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, Gowda served as a member twice: from 1994 to 1996 and from 1962 to 1989. He served as the Leader of the Opposition from 1972 to 1976[42] and as the Janata Party’s (Jaya Prakash) Karnataka State President in 1989. Gowda was chosen from Hassan to serve in the 10th Lok Sabha in 1991. Three years later, he was elected to the parliament’s Committee on Commerce.
He was appointed Chief Minister of Karnataka and President of the Janata Dal in 1994; he served in these capacities until 1996. He was appointed Prime Minister of India the following year. He served in the Rajya Sabha from 1996 to 1998. In 1998, he was re-elected to the 12th Lok Sabha for a second time. In 1999, he was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha and again in 2002.
It was his third defeat against Tumkur in the general election on May 23, 2019. He was elected from Karnataka to the Rajya Sabha in 2020.1