{"id":493407,"date":"2023-11-07T11:48:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T06:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=493407"},"modified":"2023-11-07T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T06:18:27","slug":"pm-modi-chandregowda-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/pm-modi-chandregowda-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Karnataka speaker D B Chandregowda passes away, PM Modi pays tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former minister D B Chandregowda passed away at the age of 87 at his home in Daradahalli late on Monday night . He was suffering prolonged health issue. PM Modi paid tribute to him today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final rituals will be carried out at his estate on Wednesday, November 8, and the body will be on display for public respect at Adyantaya Rangamandira in Mudigere from 2 to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, PM Modi said, anguished by the passing away of Shri DB Chandregowda Ji. PM Modi also called him a stalwart of public service. He further said, his extensive experience as MP, MLA, and Minister in Karnataka has left an indelible mark. His deep understanding of our Constitution and commitment to community service were noteworthy, the PM said. Concluding his note PM Modi expressed his heartfelt condolences to his family and supporters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anguished by the passing away of Shri DB Chandregowda Ji. A stalwart of public service, his extensive experience as MP, MLA, and Minister in Karnataka has left an indelible mark. His deep understanding of our Constitution and commitment to community service were noteworthy. My\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1721760585338216732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandregowda was born on August 26, 1936, and within his immediate social group, he went by DBC. After obtaining a legal degree, he went into practise. He later joined the Congress in 1971 and held positions in the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, MLA, and MLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chikkamagaluru Lok Sabha constituency was won by D B Chandre Gowda in 1971, and he was re-elected for a second term in 1977. In 1978, he submitted his resignation to enable Indira Gandhi to run as a candidate from Chikkamagaluru and contributed to her win. He was elected as an MLC after submitting his resignation as a Lok Sabha MP, and he had been the irrigation minister from 1979 to 1980. In Council, he had even led the opposition from 1980 to 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, in 1983, D B Chandre Gowda ran for the Janata Party&#8217;s Tirthahalli Assembly seat and won election. In addition to serving as Assembly Speaker from 1983 to 1985 and being elected to the Rajya Sabha from the Janata Party in 1986, Ramakrishna Hegde held other positions during his time as Chief Minister. In 1987, he secured a second term as the Tirthahalli constituency&#8217;s winner. He ran for Congress in 1999 from the Sringeri constituency, and from 1999 to 2004 he was the minister of law and legislative affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2009 saw D B Chandre Gowda join the BJP and win the Bengalore North Lok Sabha seat. Since 2014, he has abstained from active politics. His wife and four daughters survive him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final rituals will be carried out at his estate on Wednesday, November 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":493409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,75987],"tags":[161199,329,161198,161200,1356,165],"yst_prominent_words":[36009,48003,23854,8726,3688,3715,21633,10380,6313,9326],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/11\/07114508\/ezgif-1-48b01140b6-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493407"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=493407"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=493407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->