Mantar Gowda (born 1985) is an Indian politician from

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

. He is a member of the

Karnataka Legislative Assembly The Karnataka Legislative Assembly (formerly the Mysore Legislative Assembly) is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of the six states in India where the state legislature ...

from Madikeri Assembly constituency in

Kodagu district Kodagu district () (also known by its former name Coorg) is an administrative List of districts of Karnataka, district in the Karnataka state of India. Before 1956, it was an administratively separate Coorg State at which point it was merged ...

. He represents

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

Party and won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election.

Early life and education

Gowda is from Arakalgud,

Hassan district Hassan is one of the districts of Karnataka, 31 districts of Karnataka, India. The district headquarter is Hassan, Karnataka, Hassan. It was part of ''Manjarabad Faujdari'' between 1832-81 (Mysore Commission, Commissioner's Rule of Mysore). In ...

. He is the son of A. Manju, the JD (S) candidate who won from Arkalgud Assembly seat in Hassan. He is the grandson of Sakamma, a philanthropist from Somwarpet. He resides in his ancestral home in Somwarpet. He married Divya, daughter of Narain, alias Madeyanda Narendra and Yashoda Bopanna, who served as Director of Karnataka SSLC Board. He completed his M.D. in radiology.

Career

Gowda won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election from Madikeri Assembly constituency representing

. He polled 84,879 votes and defeated his nearest rival and five time MLA, Appachu Ranjan of

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

by a margin of 4,413 votes. He lost the election for legislative council from local bodies in 2021 on Congress ticket.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mantar, Gowda Living people 1985 births Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka Karnataka MLAs 2023–2028