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Adagooru Huchegowda Vishwanath
Adagur H. Vishwanath (2019)
Member of Karnataka Legislative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 July 2020
Constituency	Karnataka
Member of Parliament
In office May 2009 – May 2014
Preceded by	C. H. Vijayashankar
Succeeded by	Pratap Simha
Constituency	Mysore
Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly for Krishnarajanagar
In office October 1999 – May 2004
In office December 1989 – September 1994
In office March 1978 – June 1983
Personal details
Born	(1949-12-15) 15 December 1949 (age 75) Krishnarajanagara, Mysuru State, India
Political party	BJP (from 2019)
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress (till 2017), Janata Dal (Secular) (2017–2019)
Spouse	Shantamma ​(m. 1974)​
Children	4
Alma mater	University of Mysore Sarada Vilas College
Profession	Advocate, agriculturist, politician
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Adaguru Huchegowda Vishwanath (born 15 December 1949) is an Indian politician from Karnataka state. He is a leader of Indian National Congress. He is a Nominated Member of Karnataka Legislative Council. He was the former president of Karnataka unit of the Janata Dal (Secular) .

Career

Vishwanath has been in active politics since 1970s. He was a member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly for three terms, held State and Cabinet minister posts in the Government of Karnataka as member of Congress Party. In 2009, he contested 15th Lok Sabha and succeeded C. H. Vijayashankar. During his term as M.P., Vishwanath was also member of several committees. Vishwanath quit the Congress party to join the JD(S) in 2017 and got elected from Hunsur in 2018. He resigned as MLA and speaker has disqualified him from the legislative assembly on 28 July 2019. But in by-elections of December 2019 he lost to H P Manjunath of Congress party. In July 2020 he was nominated to Legislative council.

He is the author of book titled “Pracheena Parliamentgala Pradakshinegalu”, which is on ancient parliaments. It was released on 17 August 2024 by Mysuru MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar.

Positions held

Controversies

Operation Kamala

Operation Kamala, also known as Operation Lotus is a term coined in 2008, when India's former minister G. Janardhana Reddy in the state of Karnataka, used various strategies, including persuasion and financial incentives to secure support from legislators bypassing the anti-defection law, so as to take the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) past the majority number. Operation Lotus refers to "poaching" or "bribing" of MLAs and MPs of other parties by the BJP, mainly of their rival the Indian National Congress party (INC), often to form government in states where they do not have the majority.

He was one of the 15 MLAs who fell in Operation Kamala and resigned in July 2019, effectively bringing down the H. D. Kumaraswamy-led coalition government of Indian National Congress and Janata Dal (Secular).

Bibliography

• Vishwannth, Adagur H. Halli Hakkiya Haadu. Ankita Pustaka. p. 184.
• Bombay Days - releasing soon

See also

• 15th Lok Sabha
• Lok Sabha
• Politics of India
• Mysore (Lok Sabha constituency)

References

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39. "AH Vishwanath 'hurt' by rebel MLAs' exclusion in cabinet, calls BSY Kamadhenu". Deccan Herald. 15 January 2021.
40. "Bombay Days: Tell-all book on Operation Kamala by ex-Karnataka MLA Vishwanath to be out soon". The New Indian Express.

External links

• Detailed Profile: Shri Adagooru Huchegowda Vishwanath at India.gov.in

• India MPs 2009–2014
• Lok Sabha members from Karnataka
• Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka
• Politicians from Mysore
• Living people
• 1949 births
• Karnataka MLAs 1978–1983
• Karnataka MLAs 1989–1994
• Karnataka MLAs 1999–2004
• Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka
• Janata Dal (Secular) politicians
• United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election