Date of Birth	:	18/03/1953
Place of Birth	:	Mandekolu, Sullia Taluk, Dakshina Kannada District
Father's Name	:	Sri. Devaragunda Venkappa Gowda
Mother's Name	:	Smt. Kamala
Wife's Name	:	Smt. Datty
Children	:	One Son
Educational Qualification	:	B.Sc., LLB. Educated at St. Phelomena College, Puttur, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka and Vaikunta Baliga Law Collge, Udupi, Karnataka

 

 

 

Co-operative Field:

 

• He was the Vice President of SCDCC Bank, Mangalore.
• Director, SKACM Society, Mangalore
• President Sullia PLD Bank, Sullia
• The Director, CAMPCO, Mangalore from 1991 to 94.
• President, Mandekolu S.C.Society, Mandekolu, Sullia
• Member, State PLD Bank Staff Selection Committee in the year 1989-90.

 

 

Political Positions held:

 

• President of BJP, Sullia Constituency.
• President of BJP Yuva Morcha, D. K Dist.
• Vice President of BJP, D.K Dist.
• State Secretary of BJP Yuva Morcha from 1983 to 1988.
• State Secretary, BJP, Karnataka in the Year 2003-2004.
• Elected as MLA in the year 1994 and 1999.
• Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
• Member of the Cell for preparing Draft Bill on prohibiting Atrocities on Women, Karnataka.
• Member of the Committee of Energy, Fuel and Power formed by the speaker of the Legislative Assembly in the year 2001-02.
• Member of the Committee for Public Undertaking in the year 2002-03 and in the year 2003-04. He was nominated as the President of the Public Accounts Committee.
• Distributed more than 3,500 Ashraya Houses in his tenure as the Chairman of Ashraya Samithi.
• Elected as MP in the year 2004.
• Director of Coffee Board during January 2005.
• State President of BJP for Karnataka State during March 2006.
• State President of BJP during March 2007.
• Re-elected as MP in the year 2009.
• Elected as MLC in Dec 2011..

 

Interests:

 

• He is interested in Yakshagana, Folk Arts of Dakshina Kannada and also in Shuttle Badminton, Tennis and Kho-Kho (represented Mysore University).

 

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