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Member of Rajya Sabha
B.A., B.L., Diploma in Indology and Social Welfare; Congress (I) (Karnataka); son of late Shri G.M. Narayanaiah and Shrimati K.C. Yellama; born : at Kolar (Gurjenahalli), October 4, 1929; educated at (i) Government Primary & Higher Schools, Kolar, (ii) Maharaja's College, Mysore, (iii) Sharada Vilas Law College, Mysore and (iv) Govt. Law College, Bangalore; married to : Shrimati Saroja Lakshmi Krishnan; 3 son and 6 daughter
Agriculturist and Supreme Court Advocate; fluent in English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Urdu; started several co-operative and industrial societies for the uplift of labourers and backward classes specially for Scheduled Castes and Tribes; founder President of several Primary and Secondary Schools and College including Vocational Guidance Teachers' Training Institutes, Nursing Institutes and Industrial Cooperative Societies for the upliftment of persons belonging to backward classes including Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes; was Chairman, Coffee Board, November 1988 to January, 1990; President, (i) "People to People" New Delhi since 1971, (ii) Delhi Karnataka Sangha, New Delhi, 1982--86, (iii) Delhi Kannada Film Society, 1980--85, (iv) Akhil Bharat Wadder Samaj Sangh, (a Labour Organisation) since 1972, (v) Kolar District Congress (I) Committee, 1978 80, (vi) K.S.R.T.C. Labour Union (INTUC), Kolar and (vii) Viswa Karnataka Kendra, New Delhi since 1990; Vice-President, (i) Society for Hispanic Studies, New Delhi since 1968 and (ii) Society for "Indo-Romania Friendship" since 1968; Vice-President and Treasurer, Society for International Friendship, New Delhi since 1968; Ex-Chief Advisor, BEML, BGML and INTUC Unions from 1967 to 1984; was Joint Secretary, AICC 1980--85; was Member, (i) Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, (ii) Standing Committee on Rubber Board, (iii) Central Silk Board, (iv) KPCC since 1967, (v) All India Congress Committee since 1968, (vi) National Co- operative Development Council 1985--88, (vii) Consultative Committees of the Ministries of Commerce, Steel and Mines, Home Industry, Tourism and Civil Aviation, (viii) Lok Sabha, 1967--84, (ix) INTUC Central Council, 1972--74, (x) PCC and PEC of KPCC (I), 1968 and (xi) Parliamentary Delegation to Russia, Vietnam, France, Italy, Greece, GDR, Sweden, Belgium, U.A.E. and Thailand; Member, Cornmittee on Petroleum and Chemicals; elected to the Rajya Sabha in April, 1990.
Travels abroad: All countries except North and South Korea and China.
Special interest: Music, drama, dance and cinema.
Permanent address: (i) Kolar Karnataka and (ii) 26, "Sri", 13th Cross, MCR Layout, Vijaynagar,