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Chandrashekhar H. Vijayashankar (born 21 October 1956) is an Indian politician. He serves as the 21st Governor of Meghalaya. He is a member of the
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.


Career

He was a member of the
14th Lok Sabha The 14th Lok Sabha (2 June 2004 – 18 May 2009) was convened after the 2004 Indian general election held in four phases during 20 April – 10 May 2004, which led to the formation of first Manmohan Singh ministry (2004–2009). Indian National ...
of
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where he represented the
Mysore Mysore ( ), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of Mysore district and Mysore division. As the traditional seat of the Wadiyar dynasty, the city functioned as the capital of the ...
constituency of
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. He was elected member of Karnataka legislative assembly from
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in 1994. In 1998, he was elected to the
12th Lok Sabha The 12th Lok Sabha (23 March 1998 – 26 April 1999), was constituted after the 1998 Indian general election held during February–March 1998. This was the second consecutive Lok Sabha, like the 11th Lok Sabha elections that did not provide the ...
from Mysore Lok Sabha constituency. He was re-elected to Mysore Lok Sabha constituency in 2004 against Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, who was the prince of
Mysore Kingdom The Kingdom of Mysore was a geopolitical realm in South India, southern India founded in around 1399 in the vicinity of the modern-day city of Mysore and prevailed until 1950. The territorial boundaries and the form of government transmuted su ...
. He served as a cabinet minister in the
government of Karnataka The Government of Karnataka, abbreviated as GoK or GoKA, formerly known as Government of Mysore (1956–1974), is a democratically elected state body with the governor as the ceremonial head to govern the Southwest Indian state of Karnataka ...
holding the Forest, ecology and environment department from 2009 to 2011. He was a member of the
Karnataka Legislative Council The Karnataka Legislative Council (formerly the Mysore Legislative Council) is the upper house of the state legislature of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of six Indian states with a bicameral legislature; the Legislative Assembly is the lower ho ...
from 15 June 2010 till the end of his tenure in Jan 2016. He unsuccessfully contested the
2014 Lok Sabha elections General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...
from Hassan constituency in 2014 as a BJP candidate against former
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H. D. Deve Gowda. He resigned from BJP and joined
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in October 2017. He rejoined BJP in November 2019. President
Droupadi Murmu Droupadi Murmu (born Durgi Biranchi Tudu; 20 June 1958) is an Indian politician who has been serving as the president of India since 2022. She won the 2022 Indian presidential election, 2022 presidential election as the Bharatiya Janata Party ...
appointed Vijayashankar as Governor of Meghalaya on 27 June 2024.


See also

* List of members of the 14th Lok Sabha (by state)


External links


Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website


References

Living people 1956 births Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 2004–2009 Politicians from Mysore Lok Sabha members from Karnataka People from Haveri National Democratic Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election Governors of Meghalaya {{Karnataka-BJP-politician-stub