Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy's profile

Name : Haradanahalli Deve Gowda Kumaraswamy

Portfolios: Chief Minister, Cabinet affairs, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Finance, Excise, Intelligence, Information and Public Relation, Planning and Statistics, Public Enterprises and Energy

Party : Janata Dal Secular

Age : 59

Spouse : Anita Kumaraswamy

Birth place: Haradanahalli, Holenarasipura taluk of Hassan district

Father : HD Deve Gowda

Mother : Chinnamma

Education : B.Sc. from National College in Jayanagar, Bangalore.

Profession : Politician, Film producer

Kumaraswamy's political journey:

• 1996: Elected to 11th Lok Sabha
• 2004-08: Member, Karnataka Legislative Assembly
• Feb. 2006-Oct.2007: Chief Minister of Karnataka
• 2009: Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
• 31 August 2009: Member, Committee on Rural Development
• 15 October 2009: Member, Committee on Food Management in Parliament House Complex.
• 31 May 2013: Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly