Wednesday, August 03, 2011: Ousted Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa’s candidate and sitting MP D V Sadananda Gowda will be the new CM of Karnataka after his election in a closely-fought battle today in the BJP legislature party. He defeated Jagadish Shettar of the rival camp.
Gowda, who belongs to the Vokkaliga community, was born in Mandaekolu village, which is only 45 kms from Kasargod. He fluently speaks Malayalam and Tulu, apart from Kannada. His close relatives are in Kasargod. Due to his closeness to Kerala the party had made Gowda responsible for party activities in Kerala.
In a victory for the outgoing chief minister’s camp, 58-year-old Gowda is understood to have got 63 votes in his favour while Shettar, backed by leaders of all hues opposed to Yeddyurappa, secured the backing of 55 MLAs.
After the election by a secret ballot, Gowda, who belongs to the Vokkaliga community, one of the two dominant groups in the state was ‘unanimously’ chosen as the leader of the BJP Legislature Party, according to Yeddyurappa camp leaders.
Gowda, former chief of the state party unit and who has his origins in the Sangh Parivar, has been an ardent supporter of Yeddyurappa and had backed him to the hilt in the last two years when the chief minister faced rebellion by ministers and Reddy brothers in the BJP’s first government in the South.
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