N. Dharam Singh

N. Dharam Singh, 2005

N. Dharam Singh ( Narayan Singh Dharam Singh , Kannada : ಧರಮ್ ಸಿಂಗ್ ; * December 25, 1936 in Nelogi , Gulbarga District ; † July 27, 2017 in Bangalore ) was an Indian politician of the Congress Party . He was Chief Minister of the State of Karnataka from 2004-2006 .

biography

N. Dharam Singh was born on December 25, 1936 in the village of Nelogi near Jevargi in the Gulbarga district in the north of today's state of Karnataka into a Rajput family. Some members of this caste group, originally from Rajasthan, immigrated to Hyderabad and Mysore in the 18th century . Today the Rajputs in Karnataka represent a very small caste. Dharam Singh graduated first as a Bachelor of Laws and then as a Master of Arts at the Osmania University in Hyderabad . A marriage in 1970 had three children. Dharam Singh's youngest son Ajay Singh has also embarked on a political career and was elected to the Karnataka parliament in 2013.

Dharam Singh began a political career for the Congress Party in the late 1960s. From 1968 to 1980 he was chairman of the Gulbarga City Council . In 1978 he was first elected from the constituency of Jewargi to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the state parliament. In 1980 he joined successfully constituency Gulbarga in the election to the Lok Sabha , the all-India lower house, but gave up his seat in parliament immediately back on to make it his party colleagues CM Stephen permit that had failed in his constituency, where a by-election in the Move in parliament. Instead, he joined the next election to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1983 in the constituency of Jewargi. He won the constituency and was able to defend it in the subsequent elections in 1985, 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2004. During this time he held several ministerial offices in the various Congress-led governments of Karnataka.

After the 2004 state election, the Congress Party formed a coalition government with the Janata Dal (Secular) (JD (S)) party to form a government of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which emerged as the strongest party in the election, but none own majority decreed to prevent. The JD (S) succeeded in replacing the previous Chief Minister SM Krishna of the Congress Party with Dharam Singh. Dharam Singh benefited from the fact that he did not belong to any of the politically competing large castes of Karnataka. On May 28, 2004 he was sworn in as Chief Minister. Dharam Singh remained in office for less than two years: at the beginning of 2006, the JD (S), under the leadership of HD Kumaraswamy Dharam Singh, refused to enter into a coalition with the BJP. Therefore, Dharam Singh had to resign on January 28, 2006 from the office of Chief Minister.

In the new elections, which were due in 2008 after the failure of the BJP-JD (S) coalition in Karnataka, Dharam Singh narrowly defeated the BJP candidate in his ancestral constituency of Jewargi. In 2009 he took part in the all-India parliamentary election and was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Bidar constituency. In the next election in 2014 , Dharam Singh lost the constituency again and left the Lok Sabha.

On July 27, 2017, he died at the age of 80 in Bangalore .

See also

• List of Chief Ministers of Karnataka

Web links

• Profile of N. Dharam Singh on the Lok Sabha website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The patronymic Narayan Singh is abbreviated in front of the name, as is customary in South India. Dharam is the nickname, the surname Singh refers to the caste affiliation.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Manu Aiyappa: Former Karnataka chief minister N Dharam Singh dies. In: The Times of India . July 27, 2017, accessed July 28, 2017 . 
3. ^ The Hindu, May 31, 2004: "Karnataka's illustrious Rajput connection".
4. ^ Parvathi Menon: "A coalition of rivals", in Frontline December 21, 2004 (June 5, 2004).
5. ^ The Hindu, January 29, 2006: "Dharam Singh resigns".