Kollur Mallappa, also referred to as Malappa Lingappa Kollur (1905 – 24 October 2004) was the first President of Hyderabad Pradesh Congress Committee, prior to the merger of

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state into

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. He was a Member of Parliament from

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, now in

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for several terms. He was a mentor of the late Indian Prime Minister

P. V. Narasimha Rao Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was an Indian lawyer, statesman and politician who served as the 9th prime minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He is known for introducing various liberal reforms to Indi ...

, several leaders like

Virendra Patil Veerendra Basappa Patil (Kannada: ವೀರೇಂದ್ರ ಪಾಟೀಲ್; 28 February 1924 – 14 March 1997) was a senior Indian politician and was twice, the Chief Minister of Karnataka. He became Chief Minister for the first time fr ...

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, S.B. Chavan and G. Venkataswamy, etc. He founded the ''

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Sangham'' and the

hostel in

Life

Mallappa was born in 1905 in a Kannada

community and joined the

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in 1935 following a visit to

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along with his associate Janardhana Desai. The two met

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. He took an interest in Gandhian constructive activities and was the agent for the sale of cotton and woollen khadi and the popularisation of

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Political life

Mallappa was elected to the Hyderabad State Assembly from Surpur in

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. After the reorganisation of the State, he was elected to the Mysore Assembly in 1957 from

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. He joined the

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movement started by

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. He was also a

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representing

in the

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, the

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as a member of the

and had close ties with

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. Mallappa was responsible for getting the Congress party nomination to the former Chief Minister of

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, and the then

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for Water Resources, M. Mallikarjun Kharge, to contest the Assembly elections in 1972. He was the Minister for Industries and Commerce in Karnataka from 1957 to 1962. He was defeated by

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, from

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Hyderabad Karnataka Gandhi

In 1941, the

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's government arrested him and he was jailed. He represented the Hyderabad State Congress in the August 1942 Mumbai session of the party where the

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call was given. The day after the country gained independence in 1947, his wife Shankaramma died. But that did not deter him from taking part in the celebrations. Mallappa had the distinction of being elected President of the Hyderabad State Congress. He also fought against the

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of Hyderabad. Kollur Mallappa had a son called Rajashekar Kollur, who was elected as a Member of Parliament and his sons called Sanjeev Kollur and Pavan Kollur, and two daughters Vijaylakshmi & Jayalakshmi Kollur. His daughter named Thayamma and her two children called C Prabhakar and C Jagadish with their respective children live in Bangalore. Kollur Mallappa also had one brother called Ishwarappa Kollur and his sons called Dasharath Kollur & Dr Amaresh Kollur, his son Adarsh Kollur, and his wife Manjula Kollur.

Political Party

He was associated with

for most of his career and joined the

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, the faction supported by

when

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and others parted ways by forming

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in 1969. Later in the 1970's the name

evolved to

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the 'I' stands for Indira and gradually

Congress (I) Indian National Congress (Requisitionists) was created in 1969; it was created and led by Indira Gandhi. Initially this party was known as Congress (R), but it soon came to be generally known as the New Congress or Syndicate. The letter 'R' st ...

became

Congress (O) The Indian National Congress (Organisation) also known as Congress (O) or Syndicate/Old Congress was a political party in India formed when the Congress party split following the expulsion of Indira Gandhi. On 12 November 1969, the Prime Minist ...

merged with

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

Death

Mallappa, aged 99 years, died at the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in

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on 24 October 2004 after a prolonged illness. He was one of the last links with the Congress of Mahatma Gandhi's days and the freedom struggle. He is best remembered for giving up his claim to the office of Chief Minister in 1972 when the

was returned to power with a thumping majority and instead installing

D. Devaraj Urs Devaraj Devaraj Urs (20 August 1915 – 6 June 1982) was an Indian politician who served two terms as the eighth Chief Minister of Karnataka (1972–77, 1978–80), a state in southern India. He is also the longest serving List of chief minist ...

as Chief Minister. He was at that time a member of the

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Memorial

On 20 February 2017 Congress leader

Mallikarjun Kharge Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge (born 21 July 1942) is an Indian politician, who is the current president of the Indian National Congress, and Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 16 February 2021. He became the first person outside ...

said the CM of Karnataka

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has accepted his demand to build a memorial for Mallappa in

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. On 16 March 2017 the government announced the construction of the memorial.

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