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Biography

Shri Jagadish Shettar

Jagadish Shivappa Shettar is the present Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Legislative Assembly and was the 21st Chief Minister of Karnataka, a state in southern India. Earlier, he was the Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly during 2008-2009.

 

Shettar was born on 17 December 1955 in Kerur village of Badami Taluk in Bagalkote district(formerly Bijapur district), Karnataka. His parents were Sri. S.S.Shettar and Smt. Basavanemma. His father S S Shettar, a senior activist of the Jana Sangh, was elected five times to the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation and became the first Jana Sangh Mayor of Hubli-Dharwad. His uncle Sadashiv Shettar was the first Jana Sangh leader in South India to get elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Hubli City in 1967. Shettar holds BCom and LLB degrees and was a practicing lawyer for 20 years at the Hubli Bar. He married Smt. Shilpa and the couple have 2 sons – Prashant and Sankalp.

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