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Yeddyurappa

B. S. Yeddyurappa
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19th Chief Minister of Karnataka
In office
30 May 2008 – 31 July 2011
Governor
Preceded by President's rule
Succeeded by D. V. Sadananda Gowda
In office
12 November 2007 – 19 November 2007
Governor Rameshwar Thakur
Preceded by H. D. Kumaraswamy
Succeeded by President's rule
Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka
In office
3 February 2006 – 9 October 2007
Preceded by M. P. Prakash
Succeeded by R. Ashoka
K. S. Eshwarappa
Member of Parliament
for Shimoga
Assumed office
16 May 2014
Preceded by B. Y. Raghavendra
Member of the Legislative Assembly
In office
1983–1999
Preceded by K. Venkatappa
Succeeded by Mahalingappa
Constituency Shikaripura
In office
2004–2014
Preceded by Mahalingappa
Succeeded by B. Y. Raghavendra
Constituency Shikaripura
Personal details
Born (1943-02-27) 27 February 1943 (age 74)
Bookanakere, Mandya, Kingdom of Mysore, British India (now in Karnataka, India)
Political party Bhartiya Janata Party
(before 2012; 2014–present)
Other political
affiliations
Karnataka Janata Paksha (2012–14)
Spouse(s) Mythradevi (deceased)
Children B. Y. Raghavendra
Website yeddyurappa.in

Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa (born 27 February 1943) is an Indian politician who was the 19th Chief Minister of Karnataka and is currently president of Karnataka BJP . He is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India and represents the Shimoga constituency. He became the Chief Minister of Karnataka after leading the BJP to a victory in the 2008 Karnataka Assembly election in 2008. He was the first person from the Bharatiya Janata Party to become the Chief Minister of a South Indian state. Owing to alleged ill-treatment meted out to Yeddyurappa by the BJP High Command, he left Bharatiya Janata Party. Later he formed Karnataka Janata Paksha. However, in 2014 he merged it with BJP and joined the party again.

Yeddyurappa was born on 27 February 1943 in a village called Bookanakere in K.R.Pet taluk of Mandya district. His parents were Siddalingappa and Puttathayamma. He was named after the presiding deity of a Shaivite temple built by the great saint Siddalingeshwara at Yediyur in Tumkuru district. His mother died when he was four. He completed his Pre-University College education from PES college, mandya.

In 1965, he was appointed as a first-division clerk in the social welfare department but he quit the job and moved to Shikaripura where he joined as a clerk at Veerabhadra Shastri's Shankar rice mill. In 1967, Yeddyurappa married Mythradevi, the daughter of the rice mill owner. He later set up a hardware shop in Shivamogga. Yeddyurappa has two sons, Raghavendra, currently member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing Shikaripur Assembly Constituency and Vijayendra and three daughters, Arunadevi, Padmavati and Umadevi. In 2004, his wife died after falling into a sump while drawing water. In 2007, he changed the spelling of his name to its current spelling from the earlier "Yediyurappa" following the advice of his astrologers.


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