List of Chief Ministers of Karnataka

A Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a state of India. The chief minister is the head of the state (governor is the nominal head (de jure executive)and does every thing under the guidance of the chief minister) Cabinet, and the leader of the state Legislature. By the Constitution of India, the chief minister is appointed by the Governor of the state (article 164).
The parliamentary system in India follows the Westminster system. Hence the chief ministers of the states are elected by the members of the legislature. The people do not elect the head of the government, rather they elect their representatives only. In turn their representatives select the head of the government. But once the head of the government is elected, he or she enjoys almost exclusive executive powers. This is in contrast with the head of the state, the Governor, who is the ceremonial head of state.

Chief Minister of Karnataka (Karnataka Mukhya Mantri)
Seal of Karnataka
Incumbent Siddaramaiah since 13 May 2013
Appointer	Governor of Karnataka
Inaugural holder	K. Chengalaraya Reddy
Formation	25 October 1947

Selection process

Eligibility

The Constitution of India sets the principle qualifications one must meet to be eligible to the office of the Chief Minister. A Chief Minister must be:

• a citizen of India
• should be a member of the state legislature. If a person is elected chief minister who is not a member of the legislature, then he/she must become a member within six months.
• of 25 years of age or more^[1]

Election

The chief minister is elected through a majority in the state legislative assembly. This is procedurally established by the vote of confidence in the legislative assembly, as suggested by the governor of the state who is the appointing authority.

Oath

Since, according to the constitution, the chief minister is appointed by the governor, the swearing in is done before the governor of the state.
The oath of office.

I, <Name of Minister>, do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established, that I will uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India, that I will faithfully and conscientiously discharge my duties as a Minister for the State of <Name of the State> and that I will do right to all manner of people in accordance with the Constitution and the law without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.

— Constitution of India, Schedule 3, Para 5

The oath of secrecy

I, <Name of Minister>, do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will not directly or indirectly communicate or reveal to any person or persons any matter which shall be brought under my consideration or shall become known to me as a Minister for the State of <Name of the State> except as may be required for the due discharge of my duties as such Minister.

— Constitution of India, Schedule 3, Para 6

Remuneration

By Article 164 of the constitution of India, remuneration of the chief minister as well as other ministers are to be decided by the respective state legislatures.^[2] Hence this varies from state to state.

Chief Ministers of Mysore and Karnataka

Colour key for parties

  Bharatiya Janata Party

  Indian National Congress

  Janata Dal

  Janata Dal (Secular)

  Janata Party

  N/A (President's rule)

D. Devaraj Urs, Karnataka's longest-serving chief minister, held the office for 7 years, 234 days across 2 terms.

S. R. Bommai of the Janata Party, one of several leaders whose rule was cut short by imposition of President's rule

Following his tenure as the state's 16th chief minister, S. M. Krishna served as Governor of Maharashtra and Union Minister of External Affairs.

Deve Gowda's son H. D. Kumaraswamy became chief minister in 2006–07.

D. V. Sadananda Gowda of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) served as the 20th Chief Minister of Karnataka.

Jagadish Shettar was the third BJP chief minister to serve during the Thirteenth Assembly.

No	Name	Term[2] (tenure length)	Assembly[3] (election)	Party[I]
Chief Minister of Mysore
1	K. Chengalaraya Reddy	25 October 1947 – 30 March 1952 (4 years, 157 days)	Not established yet	Indian National Congress
2	K. Hanumanthaiah	30 March 1952 – 19 August 1956 (4 years, 142 days)	First Assembly (1952–57) (1951/52 election) continued...
3	Kadidal Manjappa	19 August 1956 – 31 October 1956 (0 years, 73 days)
Chief Minister of Mysore (following reorganisation of states)
4	S. Nijalingappa	1 November 1956 – 16 May 1958 (1 year, 197 days)	...continued First Assembly (1952–57) (1951/52 election)	Indian National Congress
			Second Assembly (1957–62) (1957 election)
5	B. D. Jatti	16 May 1958 – 9 March 1962 (3 years, 297 days)
6	S. R. Kanthi	14 March 1962 – 20 June 1962 (0 years, 98 days)	Third Assembly (1962–67) (1962 election)
(4)	S. Nijalingappa	21 June 1962 – 28 May 1968 (5 years, 342 days)
			Forth Assembly (1967–71) (1967 election)
7	Veerendra Patil	29 May 1968 – 18 March 1971 (2 years, 293 days)
–	Vacant[II] (President's rule)	19 March 1971 – 20 March 1972 (1 year, 1 day)	Dissolved	N/A
Chief Minister of Karnataka
8	D. Devaraj Urs	20 March 1972 – 31 December 1977 (5 years, 286 days)	Fifth Assembly (1972–77) (1972 election)	Indian National Congress
–	Vacant[II] (President's rule)	31 December 1977 – 28 February 1978 (0 years, 59 days)	Dissolved	N/A
(8)	D. Devaraj Urs	28 February 1978 – 7 January 1980 (1 year, 313 days)	Sixth Assembly (1978–83) (1978 election)	Indian National Congress
9	R. Gundu Rao	12 January 1980 – 6 January 1983 (2 years, 359 days)
10	Ramakrishna Hegde	10 January 1983 – 29 December 1984 (1 year, 354 days)	Seventh Assembly (1983–85) (1983 election)	Janata Party
		29 December 1984 - 8 March 1985 (0 years, 69 days)	Dissolved with a Caretaker CM
		8 March 1985 – 13 February 1986 (0 years, 342 days)	Eighth Assembly (1985–89) (1985 election)
		16 February 1986 – 10 August 1988 (2 years, 176 days)
11	S. R. Bommai	13 August 1988 – 21 April 1989 (0 years, 281 days)
–	Vacant[II] (President's rule)	21 April 1989 – 30 November 1989 (0 years, 193 days)	Dissolved	N/A
(7)	Veerendra Patil	30 November 1989 – 10 October 1990 (0 years, 314 days)	Ninth Assembly (1989–94) (1989 election)	Indian National Congress
–	Vacant[II] (President's rule)	10 October 1990 – 17 October 1990 (0 years, 7 days)		N/A
12	S. Bangarappa	17 October 1990 – 19 November 1992 (2 years, 33 days)		Indian National Congress
13	M. Veerappa Moily	19 November 1992 – 11 December 1994 (2 years, 22 days)
14	H. D. Deve Gowda	11 December 1994 – 31 May 1996 (1 year, 172 days)	Tenth Assembly (1994–99) (1994 election)	Janata Dal
15	J. H. Patel	31 May 1996 – 7 October 1999 (3 years, 129 days)
16	S. M. Krishna	11 October 1999 – 28 May 2004 (4 years, 230 days)	Eleventh Assembly (1999–2004) (1999 election)	Indian National Congress
17	Dharam Singh	28 May 2004 – 28 January 2006 (1 year, 245 days)	Twelfth Assembly (2004–07) (2004 election)
18	H. D. Kumaraswamy	3 February 2006 – 8 October 2007 (1 year, 253 days)		Janata Dal (Secular)
–	Vacant[II] (President's rule)	9 October 2007 – 11 November 2007 (0 years, 33 days)		N/A
19	B. S. Yeddyurappa	12 November 2007 – 19 November 2007 (0 years, 7 days)		Bharatiya Janata Party
–	Vacant[II] (President's rule)	20 November 2007 – 27 May 2008 (0 years, 189 days)	Dissolved	N/A
(19)	B. S. Yeddyurappa	30 May 2008 – 31 July 2011 (3 years, 62 days)	Thirteenth Assembly (2008–13) (2008 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
20	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	4 August 2011 – 12 July 2012 (0 years, 343 days)
21	Jagadish Shettar	12 July 2012 – 13 May 2013 (0 years, 305 days)
22	Siddaramaiah	13 May 2013 – present (0 years, 2 days)	Fourteenth Assembly (2013–18) (2013 election)	Indian National Congress

Siddaramaiah The New C.M. Of Karnataka

Siddaramaiah (born 12 August 1948) is the 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka state in South India. Currently a leader of the Indian National Congress party, Siddaramaiah was a member of various Janata Parivar factions for several years.^[1] Earlier, as a Janata Dal (Secular) leader, he was Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka on two occasions.^[2] On 13th May 2013 he sworn in as the new chief minister of Karnataka.^{[3]on the auspious day of BASAVA JAYANTHI}

Early life

He was born to Siddaramegowda and Boramma in a remote village called Siddaramanahundi in Varuna Hobli of Mysore District in a farmer family.^[4] He had no formal schooling till he was ten but went on to do his B.Sc and Bachelor of Law from Mysore University. He is a leader of the Kuruba Gowda community, the third largest in Karnataka.^[5][6] He is the second amongst five siblings.^[7]

Career

Siddaramaiah was a junior under a lawyer, Chikkaboraiah, in Mysore and later taught law for some time.

Political career

In 1978, he began political career when Najunda Swamy, a lawyer in Mysore, spotted him at the district courts as a law graduate. He was asked to contest and was elected to the Mysore Taluka. He contested on a Bharatiya Lok Dal ticket from Chamundeshwari constituency and entered the 7th Karnataka Legislative Assembly in 1983. His was a surprise victory and it earned him name and fame in the Old Mysore region.
Later he joined the ruling Janata Party and became the first president of Kannada Watchdog Committee (Kannada Kavalu Samiti) set up to supervise the implementation of Kannada as official language. During the mid-term polls in 1985, Siddaramaiah was re-elected from the same constituency and became Minister for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services. In Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde's government, he handled diverse portfolios such as Sericulture, Animal Husbandry and Transport portfolios during different stages.
He first suffered defeat in 1989 Assembly elections when Congress' Rajashekaramurthy won. Later in 1992, he was appointed as Secretary General of Janata Dal which H. D. Deve Gowda had also joined. He was elected again in the 1994 State Elections and became the Minister for Finance in the Janata Dal government headed by Deve Gowda. He was made Deputy Chief minister when J. H. Patel became Chief Minister in 1996. After the split in the Janata Dal, he joined the Janata Dal (Secular) faction of Deve Gowda and became the president of its state unit. However, he lost in the 1999 state elections. In 2004, when the Indian National Congress and JDS formed a coalition government with Dharam Singh as Chief minister, he was again appointed as Deputy Chief Minister.^[8]

Congress

In 2006, after differences with Deve Gowda, Siddaramaiah was expelled from JD (S). He subsequently garnered mass support from the backward classes and joined the Congress at a large public meeting held in Bangalore, in Sonia Gandhi's presence. He won the Chamundeshwari bypolls by a margin of 257 votes, despite camping in the constituency by Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy.^[8] In the 2008 state Assembly elections, he contested from Varuna Constituency and was re-elected for the fifth time.
He won 2013 election from same constituency on 8th May 2013. He was elected as the leader of the Congress legislative party in the Karnataka assembly on 10 May 2013.^[9] He had previously announced that 2013 assembly election would be his last election.^[10]

Chief Minister of Karnataka

Siddaramaiah was elected as Chief Minister, after the Congress adopted secret balloting route to select the new chief minister.^[11][12] He took oath as the 22nd Chief minister of Karnataka on May 13, 2013. After being sworn in as the Chief minister, he announced 4409.81 Crore plan which included providing rice at a discounted rate, subsidy on milk, and financial help for accommodation.^[13]

Personal life

He is married to Parvathi and has two sons: Rakesh, who has held a few film roles and helps his father, and Yathindra, who is a doctor.^[14][15] He is an atheist, and took the chief minister's oath in name of "Truth" instead of "God".^[16]

Positions held

• Chief Minister of Karnataka (13 May 2013 – present)
• Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka (twice, 1996 and 2004)
• Minister for Finance
• Minister for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services (1985)
• Minister for Sericulture and Animal Husbandry
• Minister for Transport