| Name(s) |
SAREKOPPA
BANGARAPPA |
| Date of
Birth |
October 26, 1933 |
| Date of
Death |
December 26, 2011 |
|
Identity |
Indian politician |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1967-96: Member, Karnataka
Legislative Assembly
- 1977-78: Minister of State,
Home, Government of Karnataka
- 1978-79: Cabinet Minister,
P.W.D., Government of Karnataka
- 1979-80: President,
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee
- 1980-81: Minister, Revenue
and Agriculture, Government of Karnataka
- 1983: He left the INC and
became involved with the Karnataka Kranti Ranga (Karnataka
Revolutionary Front, also known as the Kannada Kranti Ranga)
that had been established a few years earlier. A brief
alliance between the KKR and the Janata Party (JP) resulted
in the 1983 election of the first non-INC government in the
state.
- 1985-87: Leader of
Opposition, Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
- 1989-90: Minister,
Agriculture and Horticulture, Government of Karnataka.
- October 17, 1990: He became the
12th Chief Minister of Karnataka.
- November 19, 1992: He
retired as the 12th Chief Minister of Karnataka.
- 1996: Elected to 11th Lok
Sabha as a KCP candidate.
1999: Re-elected to 13th Lok
Sabha (2nd term) as an INC candidate.
- 2004: He joined the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was re-elected to the Lok
Sabha as a BJP candidate with a large majority.
- 2005: He resigned from the
BJP and joined the Samajwadi Party, sparking a by-election
to the Lok Sabha that he won.
- 2008: He contested against
the BJP Chief Ministerial candidate, Yeddyurappa, in the
Shikaripura assembly seat and lost heavily.
- 2009: In Lok Sabha
elections, he lost to Yeddyurappa's son, B. Y. Raghavendra,
of the BJP.
- December 2010: Joined the
JD (S).
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