K S Hegde

K S Hegde (1909-1990), full name Kawdoor Sadananda Hegde, was the Speaker of Sixth Lok Sabha (the Lower House of the Parliament of India). He was born at village Kawdoor of Karkala Taluk in South Kanara district of the erstwhile State of Mysore. He began his legal profession in 1933 and worked as Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor during the period 1947-51. Later, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha as a Congress Party nominee in 1952. Hegde served the Upper House till 1957. He resigned from the Rajya Sabha to become a Judge of the Mysore High Court. After serving in various capacity in several high courts, he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of India in 1967. On 30 April 1973, Hegde tendered his resignation, as a matter of principle, when one of his junior colleagues was appointed as the Chief Justice of India.

In 1977, he was elected to the Sixth Lok Sabha from the Bangalore South constituency on a Janata Party ticket. On 21 July 1977, Hegde was elected to the office of the Speaker following the resignation of Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy to contest the election to the office of the President of India.

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