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Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda(Kannada: ಹರದನಹಳ್ಳಿ ದೊಡ್ಡೇಗೌಡ ದೇವೇಗೌಡ) (born 18 May 1933) was the 11th Prime Minister of India (1996–1997) and the 14th chief minister of the state of Karnataka (1994–1996). Born into a farming family, he won his first seat in the Karnataka state assembly in 1962, rising to become Karnataka's chief minister. In the late 1970s Deve Gowda rose in the Janata Party and was an important figure in reuniting its successor, the Janata Dal party, after the original group splintered in 1980. Deve Gowda was instrumental in attracting to the party divergent castes. When the Congress party was defeated in the 1996 general elections and Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao resigned, Deve Gowda became prime minister of the United Front (India) coalition government after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to form a government. A Civil Engineering diploma holder, he joined the Indian National Congress Party in 1953 and remained a member till 1962. He was the President of Anjaneya Co-operative Society and later as a member of Taluk Development Board, Holenarasipura. In 1962, Deve Gowda contested from Holenarasipur constituency as an independent candidate for

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