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{{short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Infobox Indian politician
| name          = Parvatgouda Chandanagouda Gaddigoudar
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| birth_date    ={{Birth date and age|1951|6|1|df=y}}
| birth_place   =[[Hebballi, Bagalakote|Hebballi]], [[Mysuru State]]<br/>({{small|present-day Karnataka}})
| residence     =[[Bagalkot]]
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| office        = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| constituency  = [[Bagalkot (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bagalkot]]
| term_start    = 2004
| predecessor   = R.S. Patil
| office1       = Member of [[Karnataka Legislative Council]]
| constituency1 = ''Bijapur Local Authorities''
| term_start1   = 8 July 1988
| term_end1     = 7 July 1994
| predecessor1  = 
| successor1    =
| party =[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| religion = 
| spouse = Savitra
| children = 3 sons and 1 daughter
| website = 
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| source = http://loksabhaph.nic.in/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=3984
}}

'''Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar''' (1 June 1951) is a member of the [[16th Lok Sabha]] of [[India]]. He also represented the [[14th Lok Sabha]]. He represents the [[Bagalkot (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bagalkot]] constituency of [[Karnataka]] since 2004 and is a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP) political party.

==Early life==
Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar was born on 1 June 1951 at a small hamlet Heballi in [[Bagalkot District]] to Balavva and Chandanagouda Gaddigoudar. He graduated in the faculty of Arts from Basveshwar Arts College at Bagalkot affiliated to the [[Karnatak University]]. Later, he completed his bachelor's degree in Law from the prestigious Raja Lakhamagouda College of [[Belgaum]].

He married Savitra Devi on 6 February 1976 and continued to practice law at Badami.<ref>Biographical Skech of Members of Parliament - Parliament of India.NIC.in [http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=3984]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Public life==
He started his public life in the early 1980s and his major boost came when he was appointed by the then chief minister of Karnataka, [[Ramakrishna Hegde]] in 1987 as chairman of the committee to study the reorganisation of districts.<ref>[http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr132004/kv2.asp  Deccan Herald: Online edition - Published on Tuesday, 13 April 2004] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060323070528/http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr132004/kv2.asp |date=23 March 2006 }}</ref>
The report was implemented by [[Jayadevappa Halappa Patel|J.H. Patel]] in 1997-98. He is considered instrumental in the creation of Bagalkot district, which was created after separating it from [[Bijapur district, Karnataka|Bijapur]]. Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar was nominated to The [[Vidhan Parishad|Legislative Council of Karnataka]] in 1988. However, in 1994, he was unable to secure ticket from Janata Dal and contested the elections to the Assembly as an independent candidate.

Just before the elections for the 14th Lok Sabha, Gaddigoudar had denied allegations that he would be leaving All India Progressive Janata Dal (a splinter group of Janata Dal with allegiance to [[Ramakrishna Hegde]]) to join the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<ref>The Hindu, daily newspaper's Online edition Published Tuesday, 20 January 2004 {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070312082758/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/01/20/stories/2004012004720400.htm]}}</ref> However just before the elections, he did join the Bharatiya Janata Party with his followers and got the party's nomination from [[Bagalkot (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bagalkot]] Lok Sabha Constituency. He entered the 14th Lok Sabha by securing 459,451 votes while his nearest rival, R.S. Patil of [[Indian National Congress]], secured 292,068.
<ref>India Elections.Com: Fourteenth Loksabha Elections results for Bagalkot constituency [http://www.indian-elections.com/karnataka/bagalkot.html]</ref>

==Positions held==
* Member of the [[Vidhan Parishad|Legislative Council of Karnataka]] 1988
* Member of the [[14th Lok Sabha]]
* Member of the [[15th Lok Sabha]]
* Member of the Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs
* Member of the [[16th Lok Sabha]]
* Member of the [[17th Lok Sabha]]

==Reference and notes==
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==External links==
* Affidavit furnished by Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar to the Election Commission while contesting the [[Lok Sabha]] elections [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313163846/http://ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in/affidavits/S10/GE/27/Changragouda%20gaddigoudar/Changragoudagaddigoudar_sc1.html]
* Member's home page on Parliament of India's Website [https://web.archive.org/web/20060218110035/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/homepage.asp?mpsno=3984]

{{16th LS members from Karnataka|state=expanded}}
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