Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda is an Indian politician and former Prime Minister of India from 1 June 1996 to 21 April 1997. He was previously the 14th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996. He presently is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing Karnataka.
Events in the year 1996 in the Republic of India.
The United Front was a coalition government of 13 political parties formed in India after the 1996 general elections. The coalition formed two governments in India between 1996 and 1998. The government was headed by two Prime Ministers from Janata Dal – H. D. Deve Gowda, and I. K. Gujral. Chandrababu Naidu of the Telugu Desam Party served as the convener of United Front.
Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna is an Indian politician who served as Minister of External Affairs of India from 2009 to October 2012. He was the 16th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1999 to 2004 and the 19th Governor of Maharashtra from 2004 to 2008. SM Krishna had served as the Speaker of the Karnataka Vidhan Sabha from December 1989 to January 1993. He was also a member of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha at various times from 1971 to 2014.
The Janata Dal (Secular) is an Indian political party led by former prime minister of India, H. D. Deve Gowda. The party is recognized as a State Party in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh. It was formed in July 1999 by the split of Janata Dal party. It has a political presence mainly in Karnataka. In Kerala, the party is a part of the Left Democratic Front (LDF).
Dharam Narayan Singh was an Indian senior congress politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Karnataka and 18th President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee. He was the Member of Parliament from Bidar, in 15th Lok Sabha. He was the nine-term Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Jevaragi constituency.
Siddaramaiah is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as the Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Legislative Assembly since 9 December 2019. Though he resigned from the Opposition Party leader on 9 December 2019, taking the moral responsibility of the party's defeat in the 2019 Karnataka Legislative Assembly by-elections, the party continued him in the same post and as the CLP leader, realizing his popularity in the state. He is a member of Congress Working Committee. Currently a leader of the Indian National Congress party,
Jayadevappa Halappa Patel was the 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 31 May 1996 to 7 October 1999.
Hardanahalli Devegowda Kumaraswamy is an Indian politician and businessman. He is a former Chief Minister of Karnataka. He is a former president of the Karnataka State Janata Dal (Secular) and son of former Prime Minister of India H. D. Deve Gowda.
Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda is an Indian politician serving as the Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers in the Government of India in the Second Modi Ministry representing the Bangalore North constituency. He had also served as the 20th Chief Minister of Karnataka.
Somappa Rayappa Bommai was an Indian Politician who was the 11th Chief Minister of Karnataka. He was also the Human Resource Development Minister in the United Front government from 1996 to 1998.
Third Front in Indian politics refers to various alliances formed by smaller parties at various points of time since 1989 to offer a third option to Indian voters, challenging the Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party.
Hassan Airport is a greenfield airport project under construction at Boovanahalli village, 6 km from Hassan, Karnataka, India. The State government had initially found the project financially un-viable and decided to revise the project plan in 2012. The project was revived in 2021 and the airport development will be taken up the UDAN scheme at a cost of Rs 175 crore.
Gowda is a surname native to the Karnataka state of India. It is mainly found among the Vokkaligas in south Karnataka, and the Lingayats in north Karnataka. It is also used by some Kurubas.
Halahalli Shreekantha Shetti Mahadeva Prasad was an Indian politician from the state of Karnataka and five-time Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Gundlupet constituency of the Chamarajanagar district. He first won the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections in 1994 while representing Janata Dal. He was re-elected in five straight subsequent elections in 1999, 2004, 2008 and 2013. Throughout his political career he had been member of Janata Dal, Janata Dal (United), Janata Dal (Secular) and the Indian National Congress. At the time of his death in January 2017, he was the incumbent state minister for Cooperation and Sugar in the Government of Karnataka led by Siddaramaiah as Chief Minister.
G. Puttaswamy Gowda was the member of parliament from Hassan seat of Karnataka state, elected to the 12th Lok Sabha in 1999. He defeated H.D. Deve Gowda, former prime minister of India. He was a member of the Indian National Congress.
Malavalli Venkatappa Chandrashekara Murthy, sometimes spelled M. V. Chandrashekhara Murthy, was a Union Minister of State for Finance and a member of parliament representing Kanakapura of Karnataka State in the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 13th Lok Sabhas.
Tumkur Ramaiya Satishchandran was a Padma Bhushan winning 1952 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Karnataka cadre, who served as the Governor of Goa and also served as the 7th Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, the Chief Secretary of Karnataka and Power Secretary of India.
Prajwal Revanna is an Indian politician who is the member of the 17th Lok Sabha from Hassan Constituency and also the 3rd youngest member of parliament in India.
Holenarasipur Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the seats in Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India.
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