Siddaramaiah | |
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22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka | |
Assumed office 20 May 2023 | |
Governor | Thawar Chand Gehlot |
Deputy | D. K. Shivakumar |
Preceded by | Basavaraj Bommai |
In office 13 May 2013 –17 May 2018 | |
Preceded by | Jagadish Shettar |
Succeeded by | B. S. Yediyurappa |
Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 13 May 2023 | |
Preceded by | Yathindra Siddaramaiah |
Constituency | Varuna |
In office 17 May 2018 –13 May 2023 | |
Preceded by | B B Chimmanakatti |
Succeeded by | Bhimsen Chimmanakatti |
Constituency | Badami |
In office 2008–2018 | |
Preceded by | Seat established |
Succeeded by | Yathindra Siddaramaiah |
Constituency | Varuna |
In office 2004–2007 | |
Preceded by | A. S. Guruswamy |
Succeeded by | M. Satyanarayana |
Constituency | Chamundeshwari |
In office 1994–1999 | |
Preceded by | M. Rajasekara Murthy |
Succeeded by | A. S. Guruswamy |
Constituency | Chamundeshwari |
In office 1983–1989 | |
Preceded by | D. Jayadevaraja Urs |
Succeeded by | M. Rajasekara Murthy |
Constituency | Chamundeshwari |
Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka | |
In office 28 May 2004 –5 August 2005 [1] | |
Chief Minister | Dharam Singh |
Preceded by | Himself |
Succeeded by | M. P. Prakash |
In office 16 May 1996 –22 July 1999 [2] | |
Chief Minister | J. H. Patel |
Preceded by | J. H. Patel |
Succeeded by | Himself |
Leader of the Opposition, Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
In office 9 October 2019 –20 May 2023 [3] | |
Preceded by | B. S. Yediyurappa |
Succeeded by | R. Ashoka |
In office 8 June 2009 –12 May 2013 | |
Preceded by | Mallikarjun Kharge |
Succeeded by | H. D. Kumaraswamy |
Personal details | |
Born | [4] [5] Siddaramana Hundi,Kingdom of Mysore,British India (present-day Karnataka,India) | 3 August 1947
Political party | Indian National Congress (2006–present) |
Other political affiliations |
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Spouse | Parvathi Siddaramaiah |
Children | 2;including Yathindra |
Residence | Anugraha |
Alma mater | |
Siddaramaiah (born 3 August 1947), [6] also referred to by his nickname Siddu, [lower-alpha 1] is an Indian politician who is serving as the 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka since 2023. [7] He also held that position previously from 2013 to 2018, being only the second person to hold that office for a full five-year term. He belongs to the Indian National Congress and is presently the leader of the Congress Legislative Party. He represented the Varuna Assembly constituency from 2023, previously from 2008 to 2018, Badami Assembly constituency from 2018 to 2023, and from Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency from 2004 to 2007, 1994 to 1999 and from 1983 to 1989 in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1996 to 1999 and from 2004 to 2005 while he was a member of the Janata Dal and Janata Dal (Secular). He also served as the Leader of the Opposition in Karnataka Legislative Assembly on two occasions from 2019 to 2023 and from 2009 to 2013. [8] [9] [10] Siddaramaiah was a member of various Janata Parivar factions for several years. [11] [12] [13]
He was born to Siddarame Gowda and Boramma in a remote village called Siddaramanahundi in Varuna Hobli near T. Narasipura of Mysore district in a farming family. [14] He had no formal schooling until he was ten years old, he studied his high school from Vidyavardhaka High School managed by Vidyavardhaka Sangha (VVS), Mysuru. Then went on to do his B. Sc. and LL.B. from Mysore University. [15] He is the fourth among six siblings and he belongs to Kuruba Gowda community. [16]
Siddaramaiah was a junior under a well renowned lawyer, P M Chikkaboraiah, in Mysore and later taught law for some time at Vidyavardhaka Law College [17] [18] [19] managed by Vidyavardhaka Sangha (VVS), Mysuru. [20]
Siddaramaiah is mononymous. Siddaramaiah is married to Parvathi and had two sons. His elder son, Rakesh, seen as his father's heir in politics, died of multiple organ failure in 2016 at the age of 38. [21] His other son, Yathindra, contested the 2018 Legislative Assembly elections and won from the seat of Varuna in Mysuru, formerly his father's seat, by over 45,000 votes. [22]
Siddaramaiah has stated on record that he is an atheist, [23] though he has more recently clarified his public stance on the subject: "Word has spread that I am an atheist, which I am not. I am spiritual -- I have participated in festivities as child. I have visited some of the popular pilgrimage centres. But I am definitely against superstition, as I view everything from science point of view". [24]
Siddaramaiah's political career began when Nanjunda 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. This was a surprise victory for all and it earned him a name and fame in the Old Mysore region.[ citation needed ]
Later he joined the ruling Janata Party and became the first president of the Kannada Surveillance Committee (Kannada Kavalu Samiti), set up to supervise the implementation of Kannada as an 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 at different stages. [25]
He first suffered defeat in the 1989 Assembly elections, beaten by a veteran Congress leader, M. Rajasekara Murthy. Later in 1992, he was appointed 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. He was sacked as Deputy Chief Minister and dropped from the Cabinet on 22 July 1999. [2] 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 JD (S) formed a coalition government with Dharam Singh as Chief Minister, he was again appointed Deputy Chief Minister. [26] He addressed ahinda samavesha in Hubballi, which had the huge public gathering. He even challenged Reddy brothers in the house when he was the leader of the opposition that he would come to Bellary through padayatra. It garnered attention of whole state and eventually Siddaramaiah came to power in 2013. [27]
Siddaramaiah celebrated his 75th birthday on 3 August 2022 in Davanagere and called it "Siddaramotsava", where more than 20 lakh followers of Siddaramaiah had attended the program. [28] [29]
In 2005, after differences with H. D. Deve Gowda, Siddaramaiah was expelled from JD (S). He wanted to revive a regional party "ABPJD" in the state after quitting the JD (S), but he did not because regional parties formed earlier in Karnataka had not survived. [30] 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 JD (S), despite a fierce campaign against him by Deve Gowda, Chief Minister Kumaraswamy and Deputy Chief Minister Yeddyurappa in the constituency. [26] In the 2008 state Assembly elections, he contested from Varuna Constituency and was re-elected for the fifth time. [31] [32]
He won the 2013 election from the same constituency (Varuna) on 8 May 2013 and was reelected for the 7th time. He was elected as the leader of the Congress legislative party in the Karnataka assembly on 10 May 2013. [33] He had previously announced that the 2013 Assembly election would be his last election, [34] but in the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, he left his safe Varuna seat for his son, and he himself went on to contest from two constituencies, i.e. Chamundeshwari and Badami, and faced stiff competition against GT Devegowda of JD (S) and B. Sriramulu of BJP respectively, both of which were new constituencies for him. He lost in Chamundeshwari, but won in Badami vidhan sabha seat beating BJP heavyweight Sriramulu with a narrow margin of 1,696 votes and he was reelected for the 8th time. Congress under his leadership then supported the Janata Dal (Secular) in forming the government in 2018 to keep BJP out of power. He was the chairman of coordination committee that coordinated the congress-JDS coalition govt under H. D Kumarswamy. After the resignation of 17 MLAs, leading to the downfall of the coalition government, Siddaramaiah took the leadership of the upcoming by-elections in Karnataka.[ citation needed ]
The by-polls were held on 5 December 2019 for the 15 assembly seats. Though Siddaramaiah expressed his confidence in winning 12 out of the 15 contested seats, Congress managed to win only 2 seats and the JDS winning none of it. [35] This was a major setback for his leadership and differences arose among his own party members questioning his leadership. [36] Thus Siddaramaiah resigned as the Leader of the CLP and the Leader of opposition of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly on 9 December. [37]
In the 2023 Karnataka legislative assembly election, Siddaramaiah contested from Varuna constituency and won. This makes his 9th election win. He was sworn in as Chief minister for the second time. [38]
Siddaramaiah was elected as Chief Minister after Congress adopted a secret ballot to select the new chief minister. [39] [40] He led the Indian National Congress to victory by achieving an absolute majority of 122/224 seats in the 2013 Legislative Assembly election. [41]
On 15 May 2018, he resigned from his position of the Chief minister of Karnataka, respecting the verdict of the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. [42] He also became the first chief minister of Karnataka to serve full 5 years term in 40 years, and the second in the history of the southern state after Devaraj Urs. [43] He also holds the record of presenting state budget 13 times as a finance minister in Government of Karnataka. Despite allegations of mounting debt on state exchequer by the opposition, he is known for maintaining fiscal prudence within the ambit of Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act of the state. [44]
After the Congress emerged victorious in the 2023 legislative assembly election, Siddaramaiah was again elected Chief Minister, and D. K. Shivakumar was appointed his deputy. [38] After the first cabinet meet, Siddaramaiah announced that all "5 guarantees" announced in the party's manifesto had been approved and would be brought into effect in the following cabinet meet. [45] He also insisted that the officers roll back his "zero-traffic" protocol to avoid traffic congestion problems for the public. [46] His council of ministers was named the following week and was reported that he would hold finance, cabinet affairs and all unallocated portfolios. [47]
His cabinet approved reverting changes by the previous BJP government in school textbooks, which included removing lessons on RSS founder K. B. Hedgewar and Hindutva figure Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, [48] launched a scheme providing free bus rides to women in the Karnataka state buses [49] and announced implementation of other four pre-poll guarantees in the state budget.
In July 2023, he tabled the state budget for the record 14th time in state's history. He increased taxes on liquor, beer, stamp duty and registration of properties, and certain vehicle categories to fund the above mentioned schemes. [50] [51]
In July 2023, the state witnessed series of killings which included an on-duty police constable crushed to death by a sand mafia truck, [52] Jain monk Nandhi Maharaj from Belgaum, a worker named Venugopal in T. Narasipur and a double murder of CEO and MD of a company in Bangalore. [53] This led to speculations on fragile law and order in the state, and the opposition BJP led protests and march to Raj Bhavan seeking CBI probe into these matters. [54] [55]
The Karnataka Lokayukta has filed 61 corruption cases, out of which 11 were disposed as of 2019. Siddaramaiah has 50 cases pending against him in the Lokayukta. [56] [57]
Sl.No | Year | Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Vote share | Margin | Result | |
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1. | 1983 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Chamundeshwari | Lok Dal | 26,614 | 43.33% | 3,504 | Won [58] | |
2. | 1985 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Chamundeshwari | Janata Party | 33,725 | 43.45% | 8,271 | Won [58] | |
3. | 1989 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Chamundeshwari | Janata Dal | 36,483 | 36.27% | 6,409 | Lost [58] | |
4. | 1991 | Lok Sabha | Koppal | Janata Dal | 2,29,979 | 41.96% | 11,197 | Lost [59] | |
5. | 1994 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Chamundeshwari | Janata Dal | 76,823 | 54.46% | 32,155 | Won [58] | |
6. | 1999 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Chamundeshwari | Janata Dal | 50,907 | 30.66% | 6,200 | Lost [58] | |
7. | 2004 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Chamundeshwari | Janata Dal | 90,727 | 43.43% | 32,345 | Won [58] | |
8. | 2006 (by election) | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Chamundeshwari | Indian National Congress | 1,15,512 | 47.24% | 256 | Won [60] [61] | |
9. | 2008 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Varuna | Indian National Congress | 71,908 | 50.23% | 18,837 | Won [62] | |
10. | 2013 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Varuna | Indian National Congress | 84,385 | 52.53% | 29,641 | Won [62] | |
11. | 2018 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Chamundeshwari | Indian National Congress | 85,283 | 37.69% | 36,042 | Lost [63] | |
12. | 2018 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Badami | Indian National Congress | 67,599 | 41.24% | 1,696 | Won [64] | |
13. | 2023 | Karnataka Legislative Assembly | Varuna | Indian National Congress | 1,19,430 | 60.09% | 46,006 | Won |
Sl no. | Term of office | Party | Position |
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1. | 16 May 1996 – 22 July 1999 | Janata Dal | Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka [2] |
2. | 28 May 2004 – 5 August 2005 | Janata Dal (Secular) | Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka [65] |
3. | 13 May 2013 – 17 May 2018 | Indian National Congress | Chief Minister of Karnataka [66] |
4. | 20 May 2023 – present | Indian National Congress | Chief Minister of Karnataka [7] |
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