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About Ramachandra Gowda
- Ramachandra Gowda (Kannada:???????? ???)is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka, India., Gowda took to social-political activities during his school days having been inspired by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
- He participated in the Goa Liberation Movement when in high school.
- Later, he became an active member of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
- He entered the Bangalore City Corporation as a Jana Sangh member in 1970.
- He was elected to the City Improvement Trust Board in the same year.He was also the BJP State unit general secretary for a long period.
- He was first elected to the Karnataka Legislative Council from the Bangalore Graduates Constituency in 1988 and has been re-elected 3 more times in 1994, 2000 and 2006.
- He held the portfolios of Small Savings, Mining & Geology and Science & Technology in the BJP and Janata Dal (Secular) coalition headed by H.D.Kumaraswamy.
- It was during his tenure as minister that the state imposed a ban on lottery.
- In the BJP Government headed by B.S.
- Yeddyurappa, he held the portfolio of Medical Education.
- He resigned in September 2010 after his name figured in a Medical Colleges recruitment scam.
- for which high court gave a clean chit clearing all allegations.
- Subsequently, he has been appointed as the Deputy chairman of the State Planning Board.
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