Parvatgouda Gaddigoudar | |
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MP | |
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Assumed office 2004 |
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Preceded by | R.S. Patil |
Constituency | Bagalkot |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 June 1951 Bagalkot, Karnataka |
Political party | BJP |
Spouse(s) | Savitra |
Children | 3 sons and 1 daughter |
Residence | Bagalkot |
Religion | Hinduism |
As of September 23, 2006 Source: [4] |
Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar (born , 1951) is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He also represented the 14th Lok Sabha. He represents the Bagalkot constituency of Karnataka since 2004 and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.
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Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar was born on June 1, 1951 at a small hamlet Heballi in Bagalkot District to Balavva and Chandanagouda Gaddigoudar. He graduated in the faculty of Arts from Basveshwar Arts College at Bagalkot affiliated to the Karnatak University. Later he completed his bachelors degree in Law from the prestigious Raja Lakhamagouda College of Belgaum.
He married Savitra Devi on February 6, 1976 and continued to practice law at Badami.[1]
He started his public life in the early 1980s and his major boost came when he was appointed by the then chief minister of Karnataka, Ramakrishna Hegde in 1987 as chairman of the committee to study the reorganization of districts.[2] The report was implemented by J.H. Patel in 1997-98. He is considered instrumental in the creation of Bagalkot district, which was created after separating it from Bijapur. Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar was nominated to The Legislative Council of Karnataka in 1988. However in 1994, he was unable to secure ticket from Janata Dal and contested the elections to the Assembly as an independent candidate.
Just before the elections for the 14th Lok sabha Mr. Gaddigoudar had denied the allegations that he would be leaving All India Progressive Janata Dal (a splinter group of Janata Dal with allegiance to Ramakrishna Hegde) to join Bharatiya Janata Party.[3] However just before the elections he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party with his followers and got the party's nomination from Bagalkot Lok Sabha Constituency. He entered the fourteenth Loksabha by securing 459,451 votes while his nearest rival Mr. R.S. Patil of Indian National Congress secured 292,068 votes. [4]
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