Mantar Gowda (born 1985) is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is an MLA from Madikeri Assembly constituency in Kodagu district. He represents Indian National Congress Party and won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. [1] [2] [3]
Gowda is from Arakalgud, Hassan district. He is the son of A. Manju, the JD (S) candidate who won from Arkalgud Assembly seat in Hassan. [4] He is the grandson of Sakamma, a philanthropist from Somwarpet. He resides in his ancestral home in Somwarpet. He married Divya, daughter of Narain, alias Madeyanda Narendra and Yashoda Bopanna, who served as Director of Karnataka SSLC Board. He completed his M.D. in radiology. [5] [6]
Gowda won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election from Madikeri Assembly constituency representing Indian National Congress. He polled 84,879 votes and defeated his nearest rival and five time MLA, Appachu Ranjan of Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 4,413 votes. [7] [8] He lost the election for legislative council from local bodies in 2021 on Congress ticket. [9]
Kodagu district is an administrative district in the Karnataka state of India. Before 1956, it was an administratively separate Coorg State, at which point it was merged into an enlarged Mysore State.
Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda is an Indian politician who served as the 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. He is the national president of the Janata Dal (Secular) party. Born in a farming family, he joined the Indian National Congress party in 1953, and remained a member until 1962. He was imprisoned during the Emergency. He became President of the state unit of Janata Dal in 1994, and was considered to be a driving force in the party's victory in Karnataka. He served as the 8th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996. In the 1996 general elections, no party won enough seats to form a government. When the United Front, a coalition of regional parties, formed the central government with the support of the Congress, Deve Gowda was unexpectedly chosen to head the government after V. P. Singh and Jyoti Basu declined the post and he was elected Prime Minister. During his tenure as prime minister, he also served as Home Minister for some time. His prime ministerial tenure lasted for less than a year. After his prime ministerial tenure, he was elected to the 12th (1998), 14th (2004), 15th, and 16th Lok Sabha, as Member of Parliament for the Hassan Lok Sabha constituency. He lost Lok Sabha elections in 2019 from Tumkuru but has been elected to Rajya Sabha since.
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