HC Dasappa

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Hirallli Chenniah Dasappa (born December 5, 1894 in Mercara , Coorg , Princely State of Mysore , British India ; † November 16, 1964 ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), who was railroad minister between 1963 and 1964 and minister between 1965 and 1966 for industry and utilities.

Life

Lawyer and political commitment before independence

Dasappa, son of H. Chennaya, completed an undergraduate degree at Christian College in Madras after attending Central High School in Mercara and Maharaja's College in Mysore , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). Having a degree in law at the Government Law College in Bombay had finished, he took a job as a lawyer on. He was also a member of the Mysore Praja Mitra Mandali from 1919 to 1934 and was a member of the Mysore City Council between 1924 and 1938. In addition, he was a member of the Legislative Council of the Princely State of Mysore between 1927 and 1938 and was involved as a member of the Mysore Peoples Federation from 1934 to 1937 .

Due to his political engagement, Dasappa was arrested in 1938 and as chairman of the INC in Mysore in 1939 and lost his legal license in July 1940. From 1940 to 1941 he was for the first time in the Sevagram Ashram in Wardha , the residence of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi . After he was detained again between 1942 and 1943, he lived again at Sevagram Ashram from 1944 to 1945 and was arrested again in 1947.

Member of the Rajya Sabha, the Lok Sabha and Union Minister

After India became independent from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, Dasappa was again a member of the Legislative Council (Vidhana Parishad) of the state of Mysore for the INC . Between October 1947 and March 1952 he was Minister of Finance and Industry in the Mysore State government, led by Chief Minister K. Chengalaraya Reddy . At the same time he was a member of the legislative assembly (Vidhana Sabha) of the state of Mysore from 1950 to 1952 and was president of the INC in Mysore between May and December 1952. On April 3, 1954, he became a member of the Rajya Sabha for the INC and was a member of this as a representative of Mysore until March 13, 1957. 1954 was on behalf of the party presidium AICC (All India Congress Committee) mediating in disagreements regarding the listing of the local election candidates of the INC in the Andamans and in Hyderabad .

In the 1957 parliamentary election , Dasappa was elected a member of the Lok Sabha for the INC in the Lok Sabha constituency of Bangalore , to which he belonged after his re-election in the 1962 to 1967 parliamentary elections . During the second and third legislative periods he was chairman of the property committee between 1959 and 1963.

On September 21, 1963 Dasappa took over the post of Minister of Railways in the Nehru IV cabinet and held this ministerial office until June 8, 1964. In the Shastri cabinet , he served as Minister for Industry and between July 20, 1965 and January 23, 1966 Care. He was also temporarily chairman of the Working Group on the Indian Silk Industry. Dasappa died a little later at the age of almost 70.

On March 4, 1926, Dasappa married Yashodhara Dasappa, who was temporarily a minister in the government of the state of Mysore . This marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. The younger son of Tulasidas Dasappa , who was also a member of Lok Sabha from 1967 to 1980 and Minister of State for Coal and Steel from 1979 to 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ HC Dasappa. (PDF) Rajya Sabha, accessed on September 21, 2017 (English, short biographies of former parliamentarians).
  2. ^ Freedom fighter and social reformer Smt. Yashodharamma Dasappa ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / karnatakaitihasaacademy.org
  3. ↑ Tulasidas Dasappa on the Lok Sabha homepage
  4. ↑ Tulasidas Dasappa, former MP, passes away . In: The Hindu, April 20, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Dasappa, HC
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dasappa, Hirallli Chenniah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Mercara , Coorg , Princely State of Mysore , British India
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1964