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Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (pronunciation ⓘ; born 18 May 1933) [2] is an Indian politician who served as the prime minister of India from 1996 to 1997. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He previously served as the Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996 and as a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha .
Rao's five-year term was succeeded by four short-lived governments—Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 13 days in 1996, a year each under United Front prime ministers H. D. Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral, and Vajpayee again for 13 months in 1998–1999. [17]
H. D. Deve Gowda was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 1 June 1996. In his initial ministry the ministers were as follows. [1] Council of ministers
United Front: 192 seats Bharatiya Janata Party Alliance: 187 seats Congress Alliance: 140 seats Others: 26 seats. The United Front was created and got support from 332 members out of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha, resulting in H. D. Deve Gowda from the Janata Dal being the 11th Prime Minister of India.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had won the most seats despite finishing second in the popular vote, formed a short-lived government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. However, two weeks later the United Front coalition was able to secure a parliamentary majority and H. D. Deve Gowda of Janata Dal became prime minister.
In 1994, Janata Dal emerged victorious and H. D. Deve Gowda was elected as leader of the Party, hence sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka and J. H. Patel was picked as Deputy Chief Minister. The ministry was dissolved when H. D. Deve Gowda became the Prime Minister of India after Janata Dal forged United Front alliance with INC and 11 other ...
21 April: H. D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister of India. 19 June : John Major , Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons and Leader of the Conservative Party . 23 July : Sali Berisha , President of Albania , after the collapse of the government's economic pyramid schemes and the 1997 Albanian civil unrest .
Chandra Shekhar, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Deve Gowda went on to serve as Prime Ministers; Vajpayee led the first non-Congress government to complete a full five-year term from 1999 to 2004. Lal Krishna Advani served as deputy prime minister.