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 11th 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 and 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.
Arebhashe or Aregannada or Gowda Kannada is a dialect of Kannada mainly by Gowda and other communities in the region Madikeri,Somwarpet,and Virajpet taluks of Kodagu district,Sullia,taluks of Dakshina Kannada district;Bangalore and Mysore districts in the Indian state of Karnataka. As well as Bandadka,Kasaragod District in the Indian state of Kerala,Arebhashe is also called Gowda Kannada. The language was recognized by the Karnataka State government and formed an academy in 2011 to preserve the culture and literature of the Arebhahse Region which is named as Karnataka Arebhashe Samskruthi mathu Sahitya Academy supported by then Chief Minister D. V. Sadananda Gowda.
Siddaramaiah,also referred to by his nickname Siddu,is an Indian politician who is serving as the 24th Chief Minister of Karnataka since 2023. 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. Siddaramaiah was a member of various Janata Parivar factions for several years.
The town of Virajpet also spelled as Virajapete is the second town of the district of Kodagu (Coorg),in Karnataka. It is the main town of the Virajpet taluka,south of the district,in the Kerala-Karnataka border. The name is an abbreviation of Virarajendrapete after the former ruler of Kodagu,Virarajendra.
Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa,often referred as BSY,is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary board committee since 17 August 2022,termed as the highest office of authority in the party. He served as the 13th Chief Minister of Karnataka,and he was former Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly between 1983 - 2022 in different timelines. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is also the only politician so far in Karnataka to have served four times as the Chief Minister and three times as the Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He is the longest serving BJP Chief Minister of Karnataka. He is former MLA from Shikaripura constituency in Shimoga district,from where he has been elected eight times.
Jagadish Shivappa Shettar is an Indian politician,who served as the 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 2012 to 2013. He has subsequently served as Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly during 2008–2009. He is a member of the Indian National Congress. Earlier he was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party,which he quit on being denied the MLA ticket in 2023. He represented Hubli-Dharwad Central Vidhan Sabha seat,which he resigned in 2023 before the elections.
The district of Kodagu in present-day Karnataka comprises the area of the former princely state of the same name.
Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda is an Indian politician who served as the Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers of India in the Second Modi ministry from 14 November 2018 to 7 July 2021. He also served as the Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation of India from 5 July 2016 to 24 May 2019 in the First Modi ministry. He is representing the Bangalore North constituency. He also held Ministry of Railways and other cabinet positions in the First Modi ministry. He also served as the 14th Chief Minister of Karnataka.
M. R. Seetharam is an Indian politician,entrepreneur,educationist and philanthropist from the state of Karnataka. He was nominated as a member of Legislative Council in 2012. He was the Minister for Planning,Statistics,Science and Technology in the Congress state Government.
Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency formerly Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka,a state in southern India.This constituency is closer to Kerala. This constituency was created as a part of the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Nalin Kumar Kateel of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). As of the latest elections in 2019,Kateel represents this constituency. It comprises whole area of Dakshina Kannada district only.
Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala is an Indian statesman who was the 12th Governor of Karnataka from 1 September 2014 to 6 July 2021. He is also the longest serving Governor for Karnataka after Khurshed Alam Khan.
Appaiah Swami or Sadguru Appayya Swami was a Hindu Indian spiritual master who lived in Virajpet town,in Kodagu,Karnataka,India.
Daradahalli Byregowda Chandregowda,is a former Speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly,three-term MLA,one-term MLC,and Member of Parliament—three-term from Lok Sabha and one-term from Rajya sabha.
Mandepanda Poovaiah Appachu Ranjan is an Indian politician who was the former Minister for Youth Services and Sports in Karnataka,a state in Southern India. He is a leader of the BJP in Karnataka and a fifth time Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Madikeri Constituency in Kodagu district,Karnataka. He belongs to the Kodava Hindu community.
Virajpet Assembly constituency is one of the 224 Karnataka Legislative Assembly constituencies of Karnataka. It is represented in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly by A. S. Ponnanna of the Indian National Congress.
Gundugutti M. Manjanathaya was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. Born as G. M. Manjanath,he was a prominent coffee planter and lived in the village of Gundugutti in Somwarpet taluk in Kodagu district.
Coorg was a constituency of the Lok Sabha. It was used in the parliamentary election of 1951–1952. The constituency elected a single member of the Lok Sabha and was the sole Lok Sabha seat for the Coorg State. As of 1952,the constituency had 94,593 eligible voters.
Kuttur is a small village in Somwarpet Taluk in Kodagu District of Karnataka State,India. It comes under Shanivarsanthe Hobli. It belongs to Mysore Division. It is located 12 km towards east from District headquarters Madikeri. 28 km from Somvarpet,162 km from Mangalore and 234 km from State capital Bangalore.
Shri Ajjikuttira Kariappa Subbaiah was the Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council,and a four time Member of the Legislative Council of Karnataka state in India. He was also a lawyer practicing in the Karnataka High Court,and a social activist.
