MS Gurupadaswamy

MS Gurupadaswamy (born August 7, 1922 in Malangi , Mysore district , † May 10, 2011 in Bangalore , Karnataka ) was an Indian journalist and politician .

Life

After attending middle school in Malavalli in what is now the Mandya district, Gurupadaswamy studied political science at Maharaja's College in Mysore , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA (Hons) Political Science). He then completed a postgraduate degree in law at Lucknow University with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and there also obtained a Master of Arts (MA).

He became involved early on in the struggle for the sovereignty of India from the United Kingdom and later in the socialist movement led by Narendra Deva and Jayaprakash Narayan .

He began his actual political career in 1952 when he was elected as a candidate of the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party ("Peasant and Workers Party") for the first time as a member of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian parliament , and in this until 1957 he represented the constituency of Mysore . In his election he was able to prevail against HC Dasappa , who was a minister in the government of the state of Mysore at the time.

He later became general secretary of the Praja Socialist Party (PSP) and in 1960 a member of the House of Lords, the Rajya Sabha , of which he was a member until 1972 after his re-election in 1966 as representative of the state of Karnataka. He was also President of the PSP in Karnataka from 1956 to 1961.

In 1966 he was appointed Minister of State for Atomic Energy by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi , and in 1967 he was appointed Minister for Food, Agriculture, Community Development and Cooperation in her first cabinet. After a split in the Indian National Congress in 1969 , he lost the Prime Minister's confidence and resigned from his ministerial office.

In March 1971, he was first leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and held this position until April 1972. He was also in the 1970 and 1980 years a journalist at a daily newspaper in Karnataka. In 1980 he was one of the co-founders of the Bharatiya Janata Party .

In 1984 he was re-elected a member of the Rajya Sabha for Karnataka. He later became a member of Janata Dal and its parliamentary group chairman in the House of Lords. When the chairman of the Janata Dal, Vishwanath Pratap Singh , became Prime Minister on December 2, 1989, he was appointed Minister for Petroleum and Chemicals. Gurupadaswamy was a member of VP Singh's government until the end of his term on November 10, 1990. At the same time he was leader of the upper house as Leader of Rajya Sabha during this time and was re-elected in 1990, this time for the state of Uttar Pradesh .

Most recently he was again opposition leader in the Rajya Sabha from June 28 to July 21, 1991.

His cousin M. Rajasekara Murthy was not only a member of the Lok Sabha, but was also a minister in the state of Karnataka on several occasions.

Gurupadaswamy died on May 10, 2011 in Bangalore at the age of 88 as a result of a heart attack.

Web links

• DECCAN HERALD: Ex-Union Minister passes away (May 10, 2011)
• THE ECONOMIC TIMES: Former Union Minister MS Gurupadaswamy dies of heart attack (May 10, 2011)
• TIMES OF INDIA: Former Union minister MS Gurupadaswamy passes away (May 10, 2011)
• NET INDIAN: Home: Former Union Minister MS Gurupadaswamy passes away (May 10, 2011)