# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/h-d-deve-gowda
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:49:34.185Z

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name: "H. D. Deve Gowda"
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description: "He held India's top job for 11 months in 1996–97, a coalition prime minister in an era when no party could govern alone. Now the sole surviving former PM after Manmohan Singh's death in 2024."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 18 May 1933 into a farming family, Deve Gowda joined the Indian National Congress in 1953 and left nine years later. He rose through Karnataka politics, taking over the state Janata Dal in 1994 and steering the party to victory that year. He served as chief minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996. When the 1996 general elections produced a hung parliament, he was tapped to lead the United Front coalition as prime minister — a post he held for just under a year before stepping down in April 1997. He returned to the Lok Sabha as an MP, lost his seat in 1999 and again in 2019, then moved to the Rajya Sabha in 2020. He has led the Janata Dal (Secular) since 1999.