Gundu Rao ministry
R. Gundu Rao was the Council of Ministers in Karnataka, a state in South India headed by R. Gundu Rao of the Indian National Congress (Indira).
Gundu Rao ministry | |
|---|---|
| 13th Council of Ministers of Karnataka State | |
R. Gundu Rao Chief Minister of Karnataka | |
| Date formed | 12 January 1980 |
| Date dissolved | 6 January 1983 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Govind Narain (2 August 1977 – 15 April 1982) Ashoknath Banerji (16 April 1982 – 25 February 1987) |
| Head of government | R. Gundu Rao |
| No. of ministers | 46 |
| Member parties | Indian National Congress (Indira) |
| Status in legislature | Majority |
| Opposition party | Indian National Congress (Urs) Janata Party |
| Opposition leader | D. Devaraj Urs A. Lakshmisagar (Assembly) |
| History | |
| Election(s) | 1978 |
| Outgoing election | 1983 |
| Legislature term(s) | 6 years (Council) 5 years (Assembly) |
| Predecessor | Second Devaraj Urs cabinet |
| Successor | First Ramakrishna Hegde cabinet |
The ministry had multiple ministers including the Chief Minister. All ministers belonged to the Indian National Congress (Indira).
R. Gundu Rao became Chief minister of Karnataka after the collapse of the Urs government.
His cabinet has a unique record to hold a cabinet meeting outside the capital for the first time in the state's then 25-year-long history. R. Gundu Rao along with his 14 cabinet ministers travelled to distant Belgaum, 515 km from Bangalore, the Cabinet Meeting went on to make a record 42 decisions in three hours sanctioning schemes worth more than Rs 60 crore. The subjects dealt with ranged from water supply, power and irrigation projects to the construction of two wards in a hospital in Karwar district. While Rao claimed that each one of the decisions was "major", opposition leaders dubbed his entourage as a "'touring circus". Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader A. K. Subbiah and Azeez Sait, a former minister and Indian Congress (Socialist) leader had expressed a concern that those kind of Meetings will be a burden on Tax payer's money and Rao was indulging in cheap publicity.