Career

Born to South. Bangarappa, former Chief Minister, and Shakuntala. He was again elected from same assembly constituency in 1999 as a Congress candidate after the merger of Karnataka Congress Party with Congress for second-term. He was inducted into South.M. Krishna government as minister of state for Municipal Administration (Independent Charge).

Prior to that, he also worked as Minister of State for Minor Irrigation.

Foreign few days, he resigned Indian National Congress party and joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 20 days to revert Congress again. Family feud and a rift

At one stage, he even resigned Congress and left his minister of state portfolio to join BJP as per the directions of his father, returned to Congress soon when he felt uncomfortable in the BJP camp, bringing the family feud matters into the open public.

Achievements

• He won as Modern Language Association from Sorab constituency on Incorporated for third-term successively in 2004 election.

Politics

He entered politics dramatically in 1996 after a stint as a film actor donning lead roles in many Kannada films, when he was asked to contest the byelection to fill the vacancy in the Sorab constituency of Shimoga district - which his father represented from 1967 to 1994 - seven times in a row - till he got elected to Loksabha, making way for his son. He was elected to Legislative Assembly of Karnataka on Karnataka Congress Party, a regional political party founded by his father in 1994 after he was asked to resign as Chief Minister.