S.R.Bommai
| S. R. Bommai | |
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| Chief Minister of Karnataka | |
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In office 13 August 1988 – 21 April 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Ramakrishna Hegde |
| Succeeded by | President's rule |
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| Born |
6 June 1924 Karadagi village, Shiggaon, Haveri District |
| Died | 10 October 2007 (aged 83) Hubli |
| Political party | Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Gangamma Bommai |
| Religion | Hindu (Lingayat) |
Somappa Rayappa Bommai (Kannada: ಎಸ್.ಆರ್.ಬೊಮ್ಮಾಯಿ) (6 June 1924 – 10 October 2007) was an Indian Politician who was the 11th Chief Minister of Karnataka . He was also the Human Resource Development Minister in the United Front government from 1996 to 1998.
S.R.Bommai was born on 6 June 1924 in a Sadar Lingayat family at Karadagi village of Shiggaon taluk of the then undivided Dharwad District. He took part in the Quit India movement of 1942. He also played an active role in the unification (Ekikarana in Kannada) of Karnataka which had been divided into Mysore kingdom, Bombay Presidency, Hyderabad, and Madras Presidency, during the British rule.
A lawyer by profession, he was elected to the Karnataka Legislative assembly many times from the Hubballi rural constituency and was also a member of the Karnataka Legislative council from 1972 to 1978.
He along with Ramakrishna Hegde, J. H. Patel and H. D. Deve Gowda — was instrumental in the Janata Party forming a government in the State for the first time in the State in 1983. He was given the weighty portfolio of Industries in the Ramakrishna Hegde government. After Hegde quit on moral grounds, Mr. Bommai took charge as Chief Minister of the State on August 13, 1988 and his government was dismissed by the then Governor, P. Venkatasubbaiah, on April 21, 1989. The dismissal was on the grounds that his government had lost its majority following large-scale defections engineered by several Janata Party leaders of the day. Bommai had sought some time from the Governor to prove his majority on the floor of the Legislature and he was denied this. He challenged this order in the Supreme Court.
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