Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is all set to make his debut within the Lok Sabha polls, nearly a yr after the BJP fared poorly within the meeting polls held when he was on the helm.
Currently, an MLA from Shiggaon, he was picked for the Haveri seat, because the sitting MP, Shivakumar Udasi, had earlier introduced his retirement from electoral politics after the present time period ends.
“Like the people from across the country, the electorate of Haveri and Gadag want to make Narendra Modi the Prime Minister one more time and want to make ‘Bharath’ strong,” Bommai mentioned as he expressed confidence that the folks of the section will elect him with an enormous margin.
The 64-year-old had stepped in because the chief minister, primarily because of the backing of B S Yediyurappa, who was requested by the BJP central management to step down in July 2021.
According to some political analysts, Bommai’s authorities was not capable of counter the Congress narrative to color his administration as corrupt, an element that helped the Mallikarjun Kharge-led outfit to win the meeting elections in May final yr.
Bommai, who was elected to the meeting for the fourth time in a row, took full duty for the social gathering’s defeat after the ballot debacle.
When he assumed cost, Bommai had in reality scripted historical past, changing into solely the second father-son duo to have led the state on completely different events, as he began a brand new innings on the prime.
Previously, JD(S) Supremo H D Deve Gowda and his son Kumaraswamy have been CMs of the southern state.
Bommai’s father, S R Bommai, was a Janata Parivar stalwart and had served because the eleventh chief minister of Karnataka within the late Nineteen Eighties.
Born on January 28, 1960 in Hubballi, Bommai is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering. He labored in Tata Motors, Pune for 3 years after which turned an industrial entrepreneur.
Bommai is from the dominant Veerashaiva-Lingayat neighborhood to which Yediyurappa additionally belongs. The neighborhood is counted as a key vote-base of the saffron social gathering.
He began his political profession with the Janata Dal, and was a member of the Karnataka Legislative Council twice (in 1997 and 2003) from Dharwad native authorities constituency. He had additionally served as Political Secretary to former Chief Minister J H Patel and as Deputy Leader of the Opposition within the council.
Bommai stop Janata Dal (United) and joined the BJP in February 2008 and within the meeting elections held later that yr, was elected as MLA from Shiggaon constituency in Haveri. He then went on to retain the seat within the 2013, 2018 and 2023 meeting polls.
Married to Chennamma, he has a son and a daughter.
