S. R. Bommai
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S.R. Bommai (Kannada:ಎಸ್.ಆರ್.ಬೊಮ್ಮಾಯಿ) was the chief minister of Karnataka state in India. He was a native of Hubballi. He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative assembly many times from the Hubballi rural constituency. He was president of the All India Progressive Janata Dal Party and was also a union minister in the Government of India. He played an active role in the unification (ekikarna in Kannada) of Karnataka which had been divided into Mysore kingdom, Bombay Presidency and Madras Presidency, during the British rule before independence of India on 15 August 1947.
He died on October 10, 2007, aged 84. He is survived by two sons – JD (U) MLC Basavaraj Bommai and industrialist Mahesh Bommai, and two daughters – Girija and Uma.
