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M. Veerappa Moily
Ministry of Environment and Forests
In office 24 October 2013 – 26 May 2014
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Preceded by
Jayanthi Natarajan
Succeeded by
Prakash Javdekar
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
In office 28 October 2012 – 26 May 2014
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Preceded by
Murli Deora
Succeeded by
Dharmendra Pradhan
Minister of Corporate Affairs
In office 13 July 2011 – 28 October 2012
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Preceded by
Hansraj Bhardwaj
Succeeded by
Sachin Pilot
Minister of Power
In office 31 July 2012 – 28 October 2012
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Preceded by
Sushilkumar Shinde
Succeeded by
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Minister of Law and Justice
In office 28 May 2009 – 28 May 2011
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Preceded by
Hansraj Bhardwaj
Succeeded by
Salman Khurshid
7th Chief Minister of Karnataka
In office 19 November 1992 – 11 December 1994
Preceded by
S. Bangarappa
Succeeded by
H. D. Deve Gowda
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 16 May 2009 – 23 May 2019
Preceded by
R. L. Jalappa
Succeeded by
Bache Gowda
Constituency
Chikballapur
Personal details
Born
(1940-01-12) 12 January 1940 (age 84) Moodabidri, South Canara, British India (present Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka)
Political party
Indian National Congress
Spouse
Malathi Moily
Children
4
Alma mater
Mangalore University Bangalore University
Website
Official Website
In this Indian name, the name Marpadi is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Veerappa Moily.
Marpadi Veerappa Moily (born 12 January 1940) is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress from the state of Karnataka.
Moily was the former Chief Minister (and the first ethnic Tuluva CM) of the Indian state of Karnataka (19 Nov 1992 – 11 Dec 1994). He was elected to Karnataka state legislative assembly from Karkala constituency of Udupi district. From 2009 to 2019, he represented the Chikballapur constituency in Lok Sabha. But he lost in 2019 to a BJP candidate when BJP won 25 seats out of 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka. He was the former Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister of Corporate Affairs and Minister of Power in the Indian government.[1]
He is also currently serving as the All India Congress Committee General Secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh. He is regarded as one of the senior members of the Congress Party, and a close adviser for the Congress Leader Sonia Gandhi.
He announced formal retirement from electoral politics in 2024 prior to the 18th Lok Sabha Elections. [2]
^"Council of Ministers – Who's Who – Government: National Portal of India". India.gov.in. Government of India. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
^"Veerappa Moily announces retirement from electoral politics". The Economic Times. 10 April 2024. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
Marpadi VeerappaMoily (born 12 January 1940) is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress from the state of Karnataka. Moily was the...
Moily ministry was the Council of Ministers in Karnataka, a state in South India headed by M. VeerappaMoily that was formed after S. Bangarappa submitted...
14th Lok Sabha in 2004 from the Mangalore Lok Sabha seat, defeating VeerappaMoily of the Indian National Congress by a margin of 32,314 votes. In 2009...
was the Minister for Co-operation, Medium and Large Industries in the VeerappaMoily Cabinet. In 1994, he was elected for the sixth time to the Karnataka...
Subsequently, in 1992, Bangarappa was replaced as Chief Minister by VeerappaMoily. During his tenure, he promoted three popular programmes: Aradhana (to...
chief ministers such as Devaraj Urs, R. Gundu Rao, S. Bangarappa, M. VeerappaMoily and S. M. Krishna, and has handled diverse portfolios such as Home,...
August 2005, as a Commission of Inquiry, under the Chairmanship of VeerappaMoily for preparing a detailed blueprint for revamping the public administrative...
September 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. "M. VeerappaMoily bags prestigious Saraswati Samman 2014". english.dcbooks.com. Archived...
Karnataka, former Home minister of Karnataka, former president of KPCC. VeerappaMoily, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, former Union Cabinet minister....
1989 1991 1996 R. L. Jalappa Janata Dal 1998 Indian National Congress 1999 2004 2009 VeerappaMoily 2014 2019 B. N. Bache Gowda Bharatiya Janata Party...
ಅಕಾಡೆಮಿ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ" [Sahitya akademi award for VeerappaMoily]. Prajavani (in Kannada). 12 March 2021. "VeerappaMoily, Arundhathi Subramania among others to...
22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015. "Moortidevi Award for VeerappaMoily". The Times of India. 19 March 2010. Archived from the original on 4...
among other states. After the power failures, then-Power Minister VeerappaMoily said that transmission grids would be independently audited in three...
cent quota for backward communities in Tamil Nadu. Nitish Kumar and VeerappaMoily also accused the Central Government of withholding caste-based census...
October 2012 – 24 May 2014 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Preceded by VeerappaMoily Succeeded by Arun Jaitley Minister of State, Ministry of Communications...
Ananth Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 2,28,575 27 Chikkballapur 76.21 VeerappaMoily Indian National Congress 9,520 28 Kolar (SC) 75.51 K. H. Muniyappa Indian...
elections months away) as evidence of unfairness. Congress spokesperson VeerappaMoily commented on the strange absolvement of the Gujarat government for complacency...
New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi Parliamentary Affairs Kamal Nath Petroleum and Natural Gas VeerappaMoily...
first Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka was S. M. Krishna, in M. VeerappaMoily's cabinet in 1992. The office has since been only intermittently occupied...
26 May 2014 – 5 July 2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi Preceded by VeerappaMoily Succeeded by Anil Madhav Dave Minister of Heavy Industries and Public...
1990 19 November 1992 2 years, 33 days Indian National Congress 13 VeerappaMoily Karkala 19 November 1992 11 December 1994 2 years, 22 days 14 H. D....
76 Ananth Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 37,612 27 Chikballapur 68.09 VeerappaMoily Indian National Congress 51,381 28 Kolar 69.15 K. H. Muniyappa Indian...
2012 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Preceded by PM Sayeed Succeeded by VeerappaMoily 19th Governor of Andhra Pradesh In office 4 November 2004 – 29 January...
New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi Parliamentary Affairs Kamal Nath Petroleum and Natural Gas VeerappaMoily...
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