Gowda elected new CM

August 03, 2011 15:06

Gowda is supposed to be close aide of the outgoing chief minister. A lawyer by profession, he began his career in politics at a young age beginning as an activist of the party's youth wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad.

He was also involved in the cooperative and labour movements of his native district. He first came into the limelight when he turned giant-killer and defeated the well-entrenched Congress stalwart Janardhan Poojary from Mangalore in the 2004 general elections.

In the 2009 elections, he was shifted to the neighbouring Udupi Chikmagalur constituency and won.

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