Union minister and former Karnataka chief minister, DV D V Sadananda Gowda, is likely to get a ministerial berth in the second term in Modi government. Senior BJP leader D V Sadananda Gowda retained his Bangalore North seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, becoming an MP for the fourth time. He won the Lok Sabha elections from the high-profile Bangalore-North seat.
Gowda has held three portfolios in the previous Modi cabinet — Minister of Railways, Minister of Law, and eventually Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation. An LLB graduate, Gowda initially started his career in politics in the 80s with Jan Sangh.
He has no criminal charges against him. Given his experience in the Modi cabinet and popularity, he may be useful to the NDA government, especially in Karnataka where 'Gowda' surname is an intrinsic key to woo the Vokkaliga community.
Sadananda Gowda retained his seat from 2014, beating Congress's Krishna Byre Gowda with a comfortable margin of over 1,46,100 votes. Krishna Gowda, who is a sitting state minister in Karnataka, was propped as a trump card by the Cong-JD(S) combine to destabilise the BJP in its stronghold.
By pitting a popular face and a Vokkaliga leader, the ruling dispensation hoped to use these factors to steam-roll the BJP. However, on April 23, Sadananda emerged as the clear leader, with 52 percent vote share.
