Dinesh Gundu Rao (born 9 October 1969) is an

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from

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who is the Incharge of

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of Goa, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. He was the President of

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. and the member of

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Personal life

He was born in Kushal Nagar,

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. He is the second of the three sons of former

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of Karnataka,

R. Gundu Rao R. Gundu Rao (27 September 1937 – 22 August 1993) was the Chief Minister of Karnataka state from 1980 to 1983. Early life Rao was born in a Kannada Brahmin family in Kushalanagara in the erstwhile Coorg Province (now in Kodagu district of ...

. Gundu Rao attended

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in Bangalore. He completed a B.E in Electronics and Communications from B.M.S. College of Engineering in 1992. He married Tabassum Rao and has two daughters, living in

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, Karnataka.

Career

Gundu Rao was the Congress candidate for Assembly Constituency (

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District) in the 1999 Karnataka Legislative Assembly Elections. The count of total votes polled for this election was 61212. Out of these, Dinesh Gundurao of Congress secured 40797 votes to win the seat, defeating the nearest rival Nagaraj V of JD (S) by a margin of 28268 votes. He was president of the Karnataka Youth Congress, and is currently a Member of the Legislative Assembly for fifth time (MLA). He is five time winner in the Karnataka elections. Dinesh Gundu Rao was minister of state for food, civil supplies and consumer affairs in the government of Karnataka, and he was President of the KPCC.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rao, Dinesh Gundu 1969 births Living people Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka People from Kodagu district Karnataka MLAs 2008–2013 Karnataka MLAs 2018–2023