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Sri Chowdareddy (born 21 February, 1937) is an Indian politician, industrialist and social reformer from Chintamani, Karnataka. He served five terms as the Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing Chintamani during 1972, 1978, 1983, 1989, 1999.^[1] He held ministerial portfolios Small scale Industries(1979), Urban Development and Home Affairs ( 1992 to 1994), and initiated several large civic, educational and religious projects, most prominently the kailasagiri cave-temple^[2] project near Ambajidurga.^[3]

Born to M.C.Anjaneya Reddy and Shri Kempamma, Sri Chowdareddy studied locally and obtained a B.A. from St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore. After industrial training at HMT, he founded an ancillary manufacturing enterprise (Sri Venkateshwara Enterprises) before entering politics in the early 1970s. He married Shanthamma in 1965 and is the father of three children, daughter Padmaja and two sons, Dr. M. C. Balaji and Dr.M. C. Sudhakar (the latter is a current-generation politician).

Sri Chowdareddy’s political trajectory included:

Elected as MLA from Chintamani for several terms beginning in 1972 (initially as an independent and later as a Congress candidate), with subsequent re-elections during the 1970s–1990s period.^[4]

He served as Urban Development Minister (1993–94) in Veerappa Moily’s cabinet and later as Home Minister (1994–95) in the same administration. During his tenure he expedited numerous municipal project approvals and was associated with the early establishment of the Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation^[5] (KUIDFC) concept and process for mobilizing finance for urban projects in the state (KUIDFC was incorporated in November 1993).

Sri Chowdareddy led or facilitated multiple civic and cooperative projects:

Support for district dairy and chilling centers, organizing milk producers’ cooperatives and improving cold-chain capacity for local milk producers.

Founding and promoting educational institutions such as Kishore Vidyabhavan^[6] (established 1972) and other municipal colleges and hostels; promoting primary and secondary school expansion across rural habitations.

Relocation and development of modern vegetable/fruit wholesale markets, construction of traveller’s bungalows and bus/transport terminals, street lighting and major road upgrades.

He initiated the cave-temple project near Ambajidurga in 1993. (often referred to locally as kailasagiri)^[7]

In 1994 Vallabha Ganapathi was consecrated. in 1996 Chaturmukha (four-faced) Linga, Jagadhambhadevi , were consecrated. Girija-Kalyana mandapa measuring 4000 sqft was inagurated in the year 2005. On going project at the temple to setup the worlds largest Swayambhu linga measuring upto 24 feet height and 12 feet radious in the largest cave measuring 6000 sqft.

The project started in 1993 and went on for 20 continuous years with creation of the worlds largest man made cave temple complex in the last 1200 years.

Sri Chowdareddy continued his family’s emphasis on social service across religious communities; he supported Urdu-language schools for Muslim children alongside broader policies promoting Kannada as the state administrative and cultural language. He also promoted housing and land allotments to weaker sections and used municipal powers to create civic amenities for marginal communities.

Sri Chowdareddy’s tenure is associated with rapid municipal modernization, institution-building (education, markets, cooperative dairies), and a high-profile religious-cultural project (the cave temple). The political and civic institutions he helped to create have had lasting influence on Chintamani’s urban profile. His son, Dr.M.C.Sudhakar, has continued the family’s public service and appears on public records and in national/state political listings.