K. Hanumanthaiah

Kengal Hanumanthaiah (different spelling of the name: Kengal Hanumanthaiy ; Kannada : ಕೆಂಗಲ್ ಹನುಮಂತಯ್ಯ ; Sanskrit : केङ्गल् हनुमन्तय्य ; * February 6, 1908 in Lakkappanahalli, Ramanagara , Princely State of Mysore , British India ; † December 1, 1980 ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress ( INC), who was Chief Minister of Mysore between 1952 and 1956 as well as Minister in several Union governments.

Life

Attorney and Chief Minister of Mysore

During Hanumanthaiah's tenure as Chief Minister of Mysore , the Vidhana Soudha , the state parliament building, was completed in 1956

Kengal Hanumanthaiah, son of Venkata Gowd, completed after visiting the Maharaja College in Mysore to study law at Poona Law College and took after the end of an activity as a lawyer on. He began his political career in 1942 as a member of the city council of Bangalore and was also chairman of the Indian National Congress (INC) there for ten years . Because of his work in the fight for the independence of India he was arrested # seven times and in 1944 he became a member of the Representative Assembly of the Princely State of Mysore for the first time , to which he belonged until 1947. During this time he was also chairman of the INC parliamentary group and deputy chairman of the INC parliamentary group in the constituent assembly of this princely state. He was also involved as a member of the committee of the Constituent Assembly of India to develop a model constitution for the Indian states and Union territories .

After India's independence, Hanumanthaiah became a member of the Constituent Assembly of Mysore in 1947 and was also a member of the Executive Committee of the INC Group from 1949 to 1952. During this time he was a delegate at the conferences of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Stockholm (1949) and in Dublin (1950). He was president of the INC in Mysore from 1950 to 1952 and was first a member of the Mysore Legislative Assembly in 1952 , of which he was a member until 1962. On March 30, 1952 he was succeeded by K. Chengalaraya Reddy Chief Minister of Mysore and held this office until August 18, 1956, whereupon Kadilal Manjappa took over. During his tenure, the Vidhana Soudha , the state parliament building, was completed. During this time from 1952 to 1956 he was also chairman of the INC parliamentary group, chairman of the committee for educational reform, member of the National Development Council and the standing committee of its planning committee. In 1962 he was again a delegate at the IPU conference in Brasília .

Member of the Lok Sabha and Union Minister

In the election from February 19 to 25, 1962 , K. Hanumanthaiah was elected for the first time for the INC as a member of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian Parliament (Bhāratīya sasa) , and represented in this until the election from March 16 to 20 1977 the constituency of Bangalore City in Mysore, which was renamed Karnataka in 1973 . During his parliamentary membership , he was chairman of the Indian delegation to the Parliamentary Conference of the Commonwealth of Nations in Ottawa in 1966 and a member between 1967 and 1970 and, most recently, as successor to Morarji Desai, chairman of the government commission for administrative reforms (Administrative Reforms Commission) . In addition, he acted from 1967 to 1968 as deputy chairman of the INC faction in the Lok Sabha.

In the first cabinet of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi , he took over the post of Minister for Justice and Social Welfare on June 26, 1970 as the successor to Panampilly Govinda Menon and held the post until March 18, 1971 September 1970 Head of the Indian delegation to the XV. International Conference for Social Welfare in Manila and President of the Second Commission there. In addition, from September 14 to 16, 1970, he was a participant and vice-president of the First Conference of Asia's Social Ministers in Manila. He was also Minister of Justice on January 8, 1971, hosted and headed the Indian delegation to the Conference of Justice Ministers and Attorneys General in New Delhi .

In the subsequent second Cabinet Indira Gandhi was Kengal Hanumanthaiah on March 18, 1971 Minister of Railways and remained in that capacity until a cabinet reshuffle on 22 July 1972, after TA Pai became his successor. At the same time he became chairman of the working committee of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the executive committee of the INC.

His marriage to Shrimati Puttamma in May 1934 resulted in two daughters. The Kengal Hanumanthaiya Memorial Trust was founded in his honor in 2009 .

Web link

• Entry on the Lok Sabha homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karnataka: Chief Ministers
2. ↑ COUNCIL OF MINISTER GANDHI 2 March 13, 1967 - March 18, 1971
3. ↑ COUNCIL OF MINISTERS GANDHI March 18, 1971 - March 24, 1977