Gowdara Mallikarjunappa Siddeshwara (born 5 July 1952) is an Indian politician. He was a former member of the

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, the lower House of the

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, representing

Davangere Dāvanagere is a city in the centre of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It is the seventh largest city in the state, and the administrative headquarters of eponymous Davangere district. Hitherto being a cotton hub and hence popularly kno ...

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since 2004. Siddeshwara served as the Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises and prior to that, as Minister of State for Civil Aviation, till he resigned from the Ministry after a few days of cabinet reshuffle in July 2016.

Personal life

Siddeshwara was born on 5 July 1952. His father G. Mallikarjunappa (died 2003) was also a Member of Parliament for two terms: 1996–1998 and 1999–2002. Mallikarjunappa was affiliated to the RSS before joining the BJP electoral politics.

Political career

Being an active member of the

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, he served as the Vice-President of the Karnataka State (2009-2010) and the National Parliamentary Party Treasurer of the

from 2004-2014. Hitherto, he served as the Secretary of Karnataka state BJP; Member of Parliamentary Consultative Committee for Ministry of ''Human Resource Development'' and Member of the Parliamentary Committee on ''Finance'' (2004 to 2009), Member of Parliamentary Committee on ''Water Resources'' (2009-2010); Member of Parliamentary Committee on ''Finance''; and Member of Parliamentary Consultative Committee for the Ministry of ''Commerce & Industry'' (March 2010 - May 2014). He was re-elected to the

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from

for the third time successively with a margin of 17, 607 votes defeating his Congress rival. He served as Minister of State for

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from 26 May 2014 to 9 November 2015 and Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises from 9 November 2014 to 12 July 2016.

References

External links

Bharatiya Janata Party

Members of fifteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website
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