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DV Sadananda Gowda

D. V. Sadananda Gowda
Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Assumed office
5 July 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Preceded by V. K. Singh
Minister of Law and Justice
In office
9 November 2014 – 5 July 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Preceded by Ravi Shankar Prasad
Succeeded by Ravi Shankar Prasad
37th Minister of Railways
In office
26 May 2014 – 9 November 2014
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Preceded by Mallikarjun Kharge
Succeeded by Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu
20th Chief Minister of Karnataka
In office
4 August 2011 – 12 July 2012
Governor Hans Raj Bhardwaj
Preceded by B. S. Yeddyurappa
Succeeded by Jagadish Shettar
Member of the Indian Parliament
for Bangalore North
Assumed office
2014
Preceded by D. B. Chandre Gowda
Member of the Indian Parliament
for Udupi-Chikmagalur
In office
2009–2012
Preceded by Constituency established
Succeeded by K. Jayaprakash Hegde
Member of the Indian Parliament
for Mangalore
In office
2004–2009
Preceded by V. Dhananjay Kumar
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda
(1953-03-18) 18 March 1953 (age 64)
Sullia, Dakshina Kannada, Madras State (present-day Karnataka), India
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s) Datty
Children 2
Alma mater St. Philomena’s College, Puttur
Vaikunta Baliga College of Law
Website www.sadanandagowda.com

Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda (born 18 March 1953) is an Indian politician who was the 20th Chief Minister of Karnataka and is currently the Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation in the Government of India. He previously served as Minister of Law and Justice shifted from the Ministry of Law and Justice in the cabinet reshuffle of 5 July 2016. He is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha representing the Bangalore North constituency.

Sadananda Gowda was born in 1953 to Venkappa Gowda and Kamala of Mandekolu Village in Sulya taluk Karnataka. His birth village is very close to Kerala border.

Gowda graduated in Science from the St. Philomena College, Puttur and then went on to obtain his degree in law at Udupi Vaikunta Baliga College of Law. He became active in student politics during this period and was elected as the General Secretary of the Students Union of the Law College. Subsequently, he became the District General Secretary of the ABVP

In 1976, he started practising law at both Sulya and Puttur. He was a public prosecutor for a brief period in Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district but resigned his job to concentrate on his political career.

He began his political career as a member of the Jan Sangh. He was President of the party's Sulya Assembly segment. After the split of the Janata Party, he became a member of the BJP. Later on, he served the BJP as Dakshina Kannada BJP Yuva Morcha President, Dakshina Kannada BJP Vice-President, State BJP Yuva Morcha Secretary (1983–88), State BJP Secretary (2003–04) and National Secretary of the party (2004).

Sadananda Gowda was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1994 and 1999 from the Puttur Assembly seat in Dakshina Kannada. He became Deputy Leader of the Opposition in his second term as MLA. He has served in various committees of the Karanataka State legislature including the Cell for preparing Draft Bill on prohibiting Atrocities on Women, Karnataka, the Committee of Energy, Fuel and Power, and the Committee for Public Undertaking. He was nominated as the President of the Public Accounts Committee in 2003.


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