S. Nijalingappa

Postage stamp issued by India Post in 2003

S. Nijalingappa ( Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa ; Kannada : ಎಸ್.ನಿಜಲಿಂಗಪ್ಪ ; * December 10, 1902 in the Bellary district , Karnataka ; † August 8, 2000 in Chitradurga ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), whose president he was from 1968 to 1969 was, as well as two-time Chief Minister of Mysore (Karnataka) .

biography

S. Nijalingappa was born on December 10, 1902 in a village in the Bellary district in what is now the state of Karnataka. After attending Central College in Bangalore , Nijalingappa studied law at Law College in Pune between 1924 and 1926 . During this time he already dealt with the life and teachings of Guru Basava and the philosophy of the Shankaracharya orders , but also with the ideas of the Indian independence movement and the teachings of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi .

In addition to his work as a lawyer , he later began his political career and in 1936 came into contact with the Member of Parliament Dr. NS Hardikar. After he was a volunteer assistant to the Indian National Congress , he later rose to the President of the Committee of the Congress Party in the state ( Pradesh Congress Committee ). In addition to his work in the Indian independence movement, he was also an active member of the Karnataka Ekikarana movement, which advocated the unification of the Kannada- speaking areas.

Between 1946 and 1950 Nijalingappa was a member of the Constituent Assembly that prepared the sovereignty of India on August 15, 1947. In addition, he was from 1952 to 1957 member of the House of Commons ( Lok Sabha ) during the first legislative period and represented the constituency of Chitradurga there .

On November 1, 1956, Nijalingappa became Chief Minister of the newly formed state of Mysore (renamed Karnataka in 1973 ) after the language borders of the Kannada region and held this office until his replacement by BD Jatti on May 15, 1958.

He held the office of Chief Minister of Mysore again from June 21, 1962 to March 2, 1967. During this time he carried out numerous projects and thereby became the father of modern Karnataka.

After the previous party president K. Kamaraj was defeated in his hometown Virudhunagar in 1967 in his candidacy as a member of the parliament of Tamil Nadu , Kamaraj also lost his office as president of the national congress due to the influence of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi . As a result, Nijalingappa was elected as his successor as President of the INC at the party congress in Hyderabad in 1968 and was re-elected at the subsequent party congress in Faridabad . Due to sustained efforts, he succeeded in reviving the Congress Party, but during his tenure, after he had tried to exclude Indira Gandhi from the Congress Party for allegedly anti-party behavior, the Congress Party was split into the later Indian National Congress (organization) and the majority faction ("Congress (R)") under Indira Gandhi, with Nijalingappa speaking out against the faction led by Indira Gandhi. The Indira faction then elected Jagjivan Ram , a confidante of Gandhi and then Minister for Food and Agriculture, as the new party president at their party congress in Mumbai in 1969 .

Talk

In his inaugural address as President of the Congress Party at the Party Congress in Hyderabad in 1968:

"The official language of the Indian Union has always presented itself as a difficult and complex problem. After discussions and considerations, the good deal came about that the late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru developed a consensus on this issue and categorically assured non- Hindus that it was not be handicapped if they adopt Hindi as the official language. "

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SURNAME	Nijalingappa, S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nijalingappa, Siddavanahalli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 10, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bellary District , Karnataka
DATE OF DEATH	August 8, 2000
Place of death	Chitradurga