Ramakrishna Hegde

Ramakrishna Mahabaleshwar Hegde ( Kannada : ರಾಮಕೃಷ್ಣ ಹೆಗಡೆ) (born August 29, 1926 in Siddapur Karnataka , † January 12, 2004 in Bangalore , Karnataka) was an Indian politician .

biography

Hegde took part in India's struggle for sovereignty as a young man and was arrested in 1942 for his participation in the "Quit India" movement .

After India gained independence, he was later elected to the State Legislative Assembly for the first time as a member of the Indian National Congress in 1957 and was re-elected in the 1962 and 1967 elections. After working as Deputy Minister, he was a minister in the governments of the Chief Ministers of Karnataka Siddhavvanahalli Nijalingappa and Veerendra Patil and between 1962 and 1971 was Minister for Youth, Welfare and Sport, Cooperation, Industries, Planning, Panchayati Raj , Development in their cabinets , Information and advertising, customs and finance.

After the party's split in 1969, he followed his mentor Nijalingappa to the Indian National Congress (organization) . In 1972 he became a member of the State's Legislative Council of Karnataka and was in this until 1978 leader of the opposition . During this time he was also one of the politicians who campaigned for a unification of the opposition parties and the founding of the Janata Party in 1977. In 1978 he was elected a member of the House of Lords ( Rajya Sabha ) and represented the interests of Karnataka until 1983.

In 1983 he was re-elected a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and re-elected in both 1985 and 1989.

On January 10, 1983, he finally became Chief Minister of Karnataka himself and was the first Prime Minister of the state who was not (no longer) a member of the Congress Party. During his tenure, he particularly campaigned for the further development of the local Panchayati Raj system. In 1988, however, he had to resign.

He then became a member of the Janata Dal , which had been separated from the Janata Party, and was appointed by its chairman and Prime Minister V. P. Singh in December 1989 as deputy chairman of the National Planning Commission. He held this post until the end of Singh's tenure in November 1990.

In 1996 he applied as a candidate for the Janata Dal for the office of Prime Minister, but was defeated by the party nominations to the later Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda . For this reason he resigned from the Janata Dal and instead founded the Lok Shakti Party in 1997, which formed a coalition with the Bharatiya Janata Party after the 1998 elections .

In the coalition government formed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on March 19, 1998 , he was then appointed Minister of Trade and Industry.

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