Party Name : Indian National Congress
Constituency : Mysore
State : Karnataka
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 1 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 15
Father's Name : Shri Huche Gowda
Mother's Name : Smt. Ramamma
Date of birth : 15 Dec 1949
Profession : Advocate Agriculturist
Positions held :
1978-83,1989-94 & 1999-04 Member, Karnataka Legislative Assembly(three terms)1993-1994 State Minister, Govt. of Karnataka1999-2004 Cabinet Minister, Govt. of Karnataka2009 Elected to 15th Lok Sabha31 Aug. 2009 Member, Committee on Urban DevelopmentMember, All India Congress Committee (A.I.C.C)Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Human Resource DevelopmentConvenor, Congress (I) Parliamentary Party (CPP), Karnataka
More Information :
Books Published
(i)Halli Hakki Hadu (Melodies of a village warbler 2008)an autobiography;and (ii)Matasante (The vote Bazaar 2009), a political thriller which narrates the business behind elections
Social And Cultural Activities
Initiated Lake Development Authority - to protect the lakes of Bangalore from land grabbers, conserving drinking water; launched many programmes (i) Democratization of school education; (ii) Samudayadatta Shale (school Adoption Programme); (iii) Chaitanya (Refresher programme for the teachers); (iv) Akshara Dasoha (mid day meal programme); (v) Mahithi Sindhu (Computer literacy programme for high school students); (vi)Shikshana Samvada (an interaction programme on air); (vii) Chinnara Angala (a Bridge programme to identify and stimulate the school dropouts and helping them to come back to schools); (viii)Group insurance programme for children; (ix)Declared child as the property of the state; (x)School development and monitoring committee elected by the parents and local people representatives of the neighbourhood; and (xi) free education to all girl students from first to tenth standard in all respect; launched many programmes to rebuild coopertives sector, major programme "Yashaswini" a health insurance scheme which enabled our farmers to get world class health care
Special Interests
Educate people; and enthuse and involve the community to participate in the effective implementation of populist programmes of the Government
Sports and Clubs
Organised sports meets across Karnataka to identify sports talent, who belongs to rural Karnataka, who were oppressed and were deprived of opportunities; started a special sports school for the tribal students and encourage them to exhibit their talent in the mainstream; organised third National Sports Festival in Karnataka with the assistance of Union Government and developed many stadiums and encouraged the local talent to compete at National level.
Countries Visited
European Countries
