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{{short description|Fifth Vice President of India}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = B. D. Jatti
|image = B.D Jatti (enhanced).jpg
|caption =
|office = [[President of India|Acting President of India]]
|primeminister = [[Indira Gandhi]] [[Morarji Desai]]
|term_start = 11 February 1977
|term_end = 25 July 1977
|predecessor = [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]]
|successor = [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]
|office2 = 5th [[Vice President of India]]
|president2 = [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]] [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]
|primeminister2 = [[Indira Gandhi]] [[Morarji Desai]] [[Charan Singh]]
|term_start2 = 31 August 1974
|term_end2 = 30 August 1979
|predecessor2 = [[Gopal Swarup Pathak]]
|successor2 = [[Mohammad Hidayatullah]]
|office3 = [[List of Governors of Odisha|9th Governor of Odisha]]
|1blankname3 = Chief Minister
|1namedata3 = [[Nandini Satpathy]]
|term_start3 = 8 November 1972
|term_end3 = 20 August 1974
|predecessor3 = Gatikrishna Mishra
|successor3 = Gatikrishna Mishra
|office4 = [[List of lieutenant governors of Pondicherry|Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry]]
|1blankname4 = Chief Minister
|1namedata4 = [[M. O. H. Farook|Hasan Farook]]
|term_start4 = 14 October 1968
|term_end4 = 7 November 1975
|predecessor4 = [[S. L. Silam|Sayaji Laxman Silam]]
|successor4 = [[Chhedilal]]
|office5 = [[List of Chief Ministers of Karnataka|Chief Minister of Mysore]]
|governor5 = [[Jayachamaraja Wodeyar]]
|term_start5 = 16 May 1958
|term_end5 = 9 March 1962
|predecessor5 = [[S. Nijalingappa|Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa]]
|successor5 = [[S. R. Kanthi]]
|office6 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]], [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly|Karnataka]]
|term_start6 = 26 March 1952
|term_end6 = 12 October 1968
|predecessor6 = ''Seat established''
|successor6 = [[S. M. Athani]]<ref>http://kla.kar.nic.in/assembly/member/4assemblymemberslist.htm Fourth Karnataka Legislative Assembly (ನಾಲ್ಕನೇ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ವಿಧಾನ ಸಭೆ)</ref>
|constituency6 = [[Jamkhandi (Vidhana Sabha constituency)|Jamkhandi]]
|birth_name = Basappa Danappa Jatti
|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1912|9|10}}
|birth_place = [[Savalagi]], [[Jamakhandi]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]] (now in [[Karnataka]], [[India]])
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2002|6|7|1912|9|10}}
|death_place = [[Bangalore]], [[Karnataka]], [[India]]
|party = [[Indian National Congress]]
|alma_mater = [[Rajaram College]]
}}
'''Basappa Danappa Jatti''' ({{audio|Bdj.ogg|pronunciation}}) (10 September 1912 – 7 June 2002)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-05-08|title=B.D. Jatti {{!}} Chief Minister of Karnataka {{!}} Personalities|url=https://www.karnataka.com/personalities/bd-jatti/|access-date=2020-10-10|website=Karnataka.com|language=en-US}}</ref> was the fifth [[vice president of India]], serving from 1974 to 1979. He was acting [[president of India]] from 11 February to 25 July 1977.<ref name="specialcorrespondent">{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/bd-jatti-birth-centenary-on-monday/article3876258.ece|title=B.D. Jatti birth centenary on Monday|author=Special Correspondent|work=The Hindu}}</ref> The soft-spoken Jatti rose from a humble beginning as a Municipality member to India's second-highest office during a five-decade-long chequered political career.

==Early life==
Basappa Danappa Jatti was born in the Lingayath Caste and Banajiga Sub-Caste in Bagalkot district of Karnataka on 10 September 1912. His father was a humble grocer. He braved family difficulties and completed his education. After completing his graduation in Law from Rajaram Law College in Kolhapur, then affiliated with the University of Bombay, B.D.Jatti did his legal practice as an advocate for a very short span of time in his home town [[Jamkhandi]].<ref>{{ cite web | url=http://www.basavasamithi.in/aboutfounder.php | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603165115/http://www.basavasamithi.in/aboutfounder.php | url-status=dead | archive-date=3 June 2013 | title=.::basavasamithi.in::. | author=Basava Samiti | date=9 May 2013 }}</ref>

==Early political career==
In 1940, he entered politics as a Municipality member at Jamkhandi and subsequently became the President of the Jamkhandi Town Municipality in 1945. Later, he was elected as a member of the Jamkhandi State Legislature and was appointed a minister in the government of the princely state of Jamkhandi. Finally, he became the 'dewan' ([[Chief Minister]]) of Jamkhandi state in 1948. As dewan, he maintained cordial relations with the Maharaja, Shankar Rao Patwardhan, and brought about the accession of the small principality to the Indian Union. On 8 March 1948 after Jamkhandi was merged with Bombay state, he returned to legal practice and continued with it for 20 months.<ref name=stat2>{{cite news|title=His simplicity survived rewards of public life|url=http://hindu.com/2002/06/08/stories/2002060803600600.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105055629/http://hindu.com/2002/06/08/stories/2002060803600600.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2013|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=8 June 2002}}</ref>

Later, Jatti was nominated as a member of the [[Bombay State]] Legislative Assembly to represent the merged area, and within a week of his nomination, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the then Bombay Chief Minister, [[B. G. Kher]]. He worked in that capacity for a couple of years. After the 1952 general elections, he was appointed Minister of Health and Labour of the then Bombay Government and held that post till the reorganization of states. His autobiography, 'I'm my own model', is very popular.<ref name=stat3>{{cite web|title=B D Jatti|url=http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/government-politics/b-d-jatti.html|publisher=MapsofIndia.com}}</ref>

==Chief minister of Mysore state==
Jatti became a member of the [[Mysore State|Mysore]] Legislative Assembly after the reorganization and was Chairman of the Land Reforms Committee, which paved the way for the 1961 Mysore Land Reforms Act (which abolished the tenancy system and absentee landlordism). He was the Chief Minister and [[Kadidal Manjappa]] was the Revenue Minister when the Bill was adopted. In 1958, when [[S. Nijalingappa]] stepped down as Chief Minister of the state, Jatti was elected leader of the party in the face of a stiff challenge from Congress veteran T. Subramanya. He became the [[List of Chief Ministers of Karnataka|Chief Minister of Mysore]] in 1958 and continued in that office until 1962.<ref name="stat2"/>

Re-elected from the Jamkhandi constituency in the third general elections, Jatti was appointed Finance Minister on 2 July 1962 in the [[S. Nijalingappa]] Ministry. He was re-elected to the fourth Assembly from the same constituency and appointed as Minister of Food and Civil Supplies.

==Later political career==
Jatti subsequently moved onto the national scene and was appointed as the [[List of lieutenant governors of Pondicherry|Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry]] in 1968. He became the [[Governor of Orissa|Governor of Odisha]] in 1972 and, in 1974, assumed office as the [[List of Vice Presidents of India|fifth]] [[Vice-President of India]].<ref name=stat8>{{cite web|title=B.D. JATTI|url=http://rajyasabhahindi.nic.in/Hindi/picture_gallery/bdjatai_6.asp|publisher=Rajya Sabha}}</ref> He became acting president for a brief period after the sudden death of [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]] in 1977.<ref name=stat21>{{cite web|title=B.D.Jatti swearing-in ceremony|url=http://www.timescontent.com/tss/showcase/preview-buy/125415/News/B-D-Jatti-M-H-Beg.html|newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref>

However, his acting presidency was not without controversy. In April 1977, when [[Union Home Minister]] [[Charan Singh]] took the debatable decision to dissolve the assemblies of nine states, Jatti declined to sign the order and broke the tradition of the President accepting the advice of the Cabinet. Though he later signed the order, Jatti took the stand that the center's action should not only be politically and constitutionally correct but also appear to be proper. After leaving office as vice-president in 1979, Jatti continued to be in the limelight as a keen observer of the political situation in the country.<ref name="stat2"/>

==Public offices held==
* 1945–48: Minister for Education in the erstwhile princely state of Jamkhandi
* 1948 : Chief Minister (dewan) of Jamkhandi
* 1948–52: Parliamentary Secretary in the B.G. Kher Government in erstwhile [[Bombay State]]
* 1953–56: Deputy Minister for Health and Labour in the [[Morarji Desai]] Government in Bombay
* 1958–62: Chief Minister of Mysore state
* 1962–68: Cabinet minister, Government of Mysore
* 1968–72: Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry
* 1972–74: Governor of Odisha
* 1974–79: Vice-President of India
* Acting President for six months in 1977<ref name=stat6>{{cite web|title=Former vice presidents bio-profiles |url=http://vicepresidentofindia.nic.in/jati.asp |publisher=Vice President of India |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210115539/http://vicepresidentofindia.nic.in/jati.asp |archive-date=10 February 2009 }}</ref>

==Religious activities==
A deeply religious man, Jatti was the founder president of the "Basava Samithi", a religious organisation which propagated the preachings of 12th-century saint, philosopher and reformer of [[Lingayat]] community [[Basaveshwara]].<ref name=stat9>{{cite web|title=About Us |url=http://www.basavasamithi.in/aboutus.php |publisher=Basava samiti |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509003507/http://www.basavasamithi.in/aboutus.php |archive-date=9 May 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref> The Basava samithi established in 1964 has published many books on Lingayatism and Sharanas and has got the 'vachanas' of sharanas translated into various languages.<ref name=stat44>{{cite book|title=Community Dominance and Political Modernisation: The Lingayats|publisher=By Shankaragouda Hanamantagouda Patil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R84n-Wv1S-8C&q=b.d.jatti+basaveshwara&pg=PA177|isbn=9788170998679|year=2002}}</ref> He was also involved in various organisations concerned with social activities.<ref name=stat10>{{cite web|title=Memories of Founder Sri.B.D.Jatti |url=http://www.basavasamithi.in/founderslist.php |publisher=Basava samiti |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509003329/http://www.basavasamithi.in/founderslist.php |archive-date=9 May 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Death and legacy==
He died on 7 June 2002.<ref name=stat11>{{cite news|title=B.D.Jatti dead|url=http://hindu.com/2002/06/08/stories/2002060804440102.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125041957/http://hindu.com/2002/06/08/stories/2002060804440102.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 January 2013|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=8 June 2002}}</ref> He was hailed as a man who set an example of selfless service and stood for value-based politics.<ref name=stat12>{{cite news|title=Governor, CM condole Jatti's death|url=http://hindu.com/2002/06/08/stories/2002060804340400.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126085621/http://hindu.com/2002/06/08/stories/2002060804340400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 January 2013|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=8 June 2002}}</ref> He was once called an ordinary man with extraordinary thought, and he named his autobiography, ''I'm My Own Model''.<ref name=stat33>{{cite web|title=Simple man with a lofty office|url=http://archive.deccanherald.com/Deccanherald/sep112005/panorama163515200599.asp|newspaper=Deccan Herald|access-date=15 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911154103/http://archive.deccanherald.com/Deccanherald/sep112005/panorama163515200599.asp|archive-date=11 September 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> His centenary celebrations were held in 2012.<ref name=stat13>{{cite news|title=Quality of public life has declined: Governor|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3879641.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|date=10 September 2012}}</ref><ref name=stat14>{{cite news|title=B.D. Jatti birth centenary on Monday|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3876258.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|date=9 September 2012}}</ref>

==See also==

*[[List of Chief Ministers of Karnataka]]
*[[Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of states of India]]
*[[List of Governors of India]]

==References==
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{{s-ttl|title=[[President of India]] Acting|years=1977}}
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