P. C. Gaddigoudar
Parvatgouda Chandanagouda Gaddigoudar | |
|---|---|
Bagalkot | |
| Member of Karnataka Legislative Council | |
| In office 8 July 1988 – 7 July 1994 | |
| Constituency | Bijapur Local Authorities |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 June 1951 Bagalkot |
| Source: [4] | |
Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar (1 June 1951) is a member of the
Bagalkot constituency of Karnataka since 2004 and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) political party.
Early life
Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar was born on 1 June 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 bachelor's degree in Law from the prestigious Raja Lakhamagouda College of Belgaum
.
He married Savitra Devi on 6 February 1976 and continued to practice law at Badami.[1]
Public life
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 reorganisation of districts.[2] The report was implemented by
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, Gaddigoudar had denied allegations that he would be leaving All India Progressive Janata Dal (a splinter group of Janata Dal with allegiance to
Bagalkot Lok Sabha Constituency. He entered the 14th Lok Sabha by securing 459,451 votes while his nearest rival, R.S. Patil of Indian National Congress
, secured 292,068.
[4]
Positions held
- Member of the Legislative Council of Karnataka1988
- Member of the 14th Lok Sabha
- Member of the 15th Lok Sabha
- Member of the Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs
- Member of the 16th Lok Sabha
- Member of the 17th Lok Sabha
Reference and notes
- ^ Biographical Skech of Members of Parliament - Parliament of India.NIC.in [1][permanent dead link]
- ^ Deccan Herald: Online edition - Published on Tuesday, 13 April 2004 Archived 23 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Hindu, daily newspaper's Online edition Published Tuesday, 20 January 2004 [2][usurped]
- ^ India Elections.Com: Fourteenth Loksabha Elections results for Bagalkot constituency [3]