D.B. Chandre Gowda, one of the senior politicians of Karnataka, passed away at his residence at Daradahalli in Mudigere taluk in the early hours of Tuesday, November 7, 2023. He was 87. He has a political career spanning over five decades in different political parties.
Chandre Gowda is survived by his wife, B.S. Poorna and four daughters. Mr. Chandre Gowda, an advocate by profession, got into electoral politics in 1971. He has the distinction of being elected to all four Houses of the legislature in the country. He was speaker of the Legislative Assembly as well (1983-85).
He was elected to Lok Sabha in 1971 from Chikkamagaluru as a Congress candidate. During his second term, he resigned as a member so that Indira Gandhi could contest from Chikkamagaluru and re-enter parliament in 1978, in the post-Emergency scenario.
