H. D. Deve Gowda
H. D. Deve Gowda | |
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Official portrait, 1996 | |
| Prime Minister of India | |
| In office 1 June 1996 – 21 April 1997 | |
| President | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| Vice President | K. R. Narayanan |
| Preceded by | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Succeeded by | Inder Kumar Gujral |
| Union Minister of Home Affairs | |
| In office 1 June 1996 – 28 June 1996 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Murli Manohar Joshi |
| Succeeded by | Indrajit Gupta |
| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| Assumed office 26 June 2020 | |
| Preceded by | D. Kupendra Reddy |
| Constituency | Karnataka |
| In office 23 September 1996 – 2 March 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Leeladevi Renuka Prasad |
| Succeeded by | A. Lakshmisagar |
| Constituency | Karnataka |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 17 May 2004 – 23 May 2019 | |
| Preceded by | G. Puttaswamy Gowda |
| Succeeded by | Prajwal Revanna |
| Constituency | Hassan, Karnataka |
| In office 2 February 2002 – 16 May 2004 | |
| Preceded by | M. V. Chandrashekara Murthy |
| Succeeded by | Tejashwini Sreeramesh |
| Constituency | Kanakapura, Karnataka |
| In office 10 March 1998 – 26 April 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Rudresh Gowda |
| Succeeded by | G. Puttaswamy Gowda |
| Constituency | Hassan, Karnataka |
| In office 20 June 1991 – 11 December 1994 | |
| Preceded by | H. C. Srikantaiah |
| Succeeded by | Rudresh Gowda |
| Constituency | Hassan, Karnataka |
| Chief Minister of Karnataka | |
| In office 11 December 1994 – 31 May 1996 | |
| Governor | Khurshed Alam Khan |
| Preceded by | Veerappa Moily |
| Succeeded by | Jayadevappa Halappa Patel (who also deputy under him) |
| Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1994 – 1996 | |
| Preceded by | CM Lingappa |
| Succeeded by | CM Lingappa |
| Constituency | Ramanagara |
| In office 1962 – 1989 | |
| Preceded by | Y. Veerappa |
| Succeeded by | G. Puttaswamy Gowda |
| Constituency | Holenarasipur |
| President of Janata Dal (Secular) | |
| Assumed office July 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda 18 May 1933 |
| Party | Janata Dal (Secular) (1999–present) |
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| Spouse |
Chennamma (m. 1954) |
| Children | 6 (including H. D. Revanna and H. D. Kumaraswamy) |
| Education | Diploma in Civil Engineering |
| Alma mater | L. V. Polytechnic, Hassan |
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| Website | hddevegowda |
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Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (ⓘ; born 18 May 1933) is an Indian politician who served as the prime minister of India for nearly 11 months, from 1996 to 1997. He previously served as the chief minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996 and as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Lok Sabha. A member of the Janata Dal (Secular), he has been serving as the party's president since 1999 and has been an MP in the Rajya Sabha representing Karnataka since 2020.
Born in a family of farmers, Deve Gowda joined the Indian National Congress (INC) in 1953 and remained a member until 1962. He became president of the state unit of the Janata Dal in 1994 and was considered to be a driving force in the party's victory in Karnataka. He served as the chief minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996. In the 1996 general elections, no party won enough seats to form a government and Deve Gowda was elected to serve as prime minister as head of the United Front coalition. His premiership lasted for less than a year and he left office in April 1997. After his prime ministerial tenure, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament until his defeats in 1999 and 2019. Deve Gowda was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2020.
Following the death of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2024, Gowda is the only living former Prime Minister of India.