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  1. Kemparaj Urs (brother) Devaraj Devaraj Urs[a] (20 August 1915 – 6 June 1982) [1] was an Indian politician who served two terms as the first Chief Minister of Karnataka (1972–77, 1978–80), a state in southern India. He is also the longest serving Chief Minister of Karnataka in terms of days of tenure in office.

  2. Jun 7, 2011 · Basically a politician with a humane outlook, Devaraj Urs widely believed that only 10 percent of the people lived a luxurious life at the expense of 90 percent of poor people, a majority of them being manual labourers, who included farmers and the working class.

  3. The present article delineates the political profile of Devaraj Urs who has created history in Karnataka state on the basis of qualitative research methodology. He had won the Assembly Election in 1952 as a Congress Party candidate from Hunsur Constituency.

  4. D. Devaraj Urs Biography. D. Devaraj Urs was an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Karnataka twice. He was known for his reforms to uplift the scheduled castes and other backward communities of Karnataka. He was a chain pipe-smoker. He was born in the year 1915 in Mysore.

  5. Devaraj Urs was a great personality and a politician who provided efficient administration for the empowerment of backward classes to bring about social equality. He was the first Chief Minister in the

  6. May 8, 2013 · D. Devaraj Urs is held famously as the greatest social reformers ever from Karnataka. He made several key changes that brought not only relief, but also restored a sense of dignity to the people of Karnataka.

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  8. Born on August 20 in 1915 at Mysuru in the aristocratic Arasu community, Devaraj was distant kin to the Wodeyar royal family. However, he chose to struggle for social justice, rather than enjoying life as a landlord. Urs eventually became chief minister of Karnataka for two terms.