Janardhana Swamy served as a

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in 15th Lok Sabha (2009-2014) representing the

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Early life and education

Janardhana Swamy is the only son for his father Venkatappa and mother Chinnadevi. His father Venkatappa was a primary school teacher in Karnataka, India. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Instrumentation Technology) from U.B.D.T. College of Engineering, Davangere, under University of Mysore and a Master's degree in Engineering (Electrical Communication) from the

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(IISc), Bangalore.

Career

Swamy worked in various engineering and management positions at

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, and

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. His research articles appeared in

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, and other publications, and he obtained a United States Patent US 6,686,759 for "Testing embedded cores in multi-core integrated circuit designs" on Feb. 3, 2004. He also worked as a full-time party worker of

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(BJP) and served as the first president of BJP IT Cell (Karnataka Division). He contested and won the 2009 Lok Sabha election from Chitradurga, Karnataka. As a Member of Parliament Swamy, along with Davangere MP GM Siddeshwara and Tumkur MP GS Basavaraju, were instrumental in sanctioning the direct Railway connection between Chitradurga and the state's capital Bangalore. He also played significant roles in setting up the DRDO, BARC, ISRO, and IISc's new campus at Challakere. He lost the Lok Sabha election from Chitragurga in 2014.

Literary works

He designed and illustrated cover pages for several books and publications. While he was in United States, he worked as the Chief Editor & Vice-President of California's Kannada community organisation KKNC. His cartoons appeared in state, national and international publications and newspapers in India.https://kannadaranga.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post.html, Kannada Ranga

Other Roles

In 15th Lok Sabha: * Member of Committee on External Affairs * Member of

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(IIT), which is headed by the

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* Member of Committee on Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution * Member of Technology Committee at Lok Sabha He is presently holding the following positions: * Member of Karnataka State Innovation Council * Member of

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Swamy, Janardhana 1968 births Kannada people Living people Indian Hindus People from Chitradurga India MPs 2009–2014 Artists from Karnataka Indian cartoonists Lok Sabha members from Karnataka National Democratic Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka Indian Institute of Science alumni