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Haradanahalli Deve Gowda Kumaraswamy |
Birth Date:
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19 December 1959
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Holenarsipur, karnataka |
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Chief Minister |
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Karnataka |
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Biography
Haradanahalli Deve Gowda Kumaraswamy (born December 19, 1959) is an Indian politician. He is the son of former Prime Minister of India H. D. Deve Gowda. Popularly known as "KumarAnna" (Kumar, the name and anna in Kannada means elder brother) among his friends and followers was a noted film producer, distributor and exhibitor in the Kannada film industry. He even owns a cinema theatre at his home town Holenarasipura.
He married Anita on March 13, 1986 at Palace Grounds, Bangalore the same place where he was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka. He has a son, Nikhil, in this marriage.
He won the Kanakapura (Bangalore Rural District) Lok Sabha seat in 1996. He sought re-election from Kanakapura in 1998 and lost. He again contested unsuccessfully for a Sathanur assembly seat in 1999. In 2004, he was elected to represent the Ramanagaram assembly segment.
He was never considered to be the political heir to his father. He started overshadowing his elder brother H.D. Revanna when he clinched the post of "Working-President of Janata Dal Secular Party".
He rose to prominence in the national media when he along with the help of Bharatiya Janata Party engineered a defection in his own party, Janata Dal-Secular. Forty-two MLAs of Janata Dal (Secular) under his leadership left a claim to form a government. His father had to resign from he post of party Presidentship due to the act of his son against his will.
On January 28, 2006, Karnataka Governor T.N. Chaturvedi invited him to form the government in the state after Dharam Singh resigned earlier in the day.
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