Former IAS officer, Sandalwood actor K Shivaram No More

Former IAS officer and Sandalwood actor K Shivaram, who was admitted to the hospital after suffering a heart attack and was undergoing treatment in the ICU, passed away today without treatment, Kanadanewsnow reported.

According to kannada leading news website Kanadanewsnow reported that K Shivaram long-time friend Nagesh Kalenahalli wrote on his Facebook page and shared the information about his death. K Sivaram was born on April 6, 1953 in a poor family in a village near Bidadi in Ramanagara district. Sivaram passed the KAS examination in 1985. After that, he became the first person in India to write the IAS examination in Kannada language and passed.

In 1985, he cleared K.A.S. exam and was selected as Deputy Superintendent of Police. In the year 1986, he secured 1st rank among the Scheduled Caste community in Karnataka Administrative Service exam and got selected as Assistant commissioner of police (India).

K Sivaram entered the Sandalwood and acted in ‘Ba Nalle Madhuchandrake’ directed by Nagatihalli Chandrasekhar which hit the screens in 1993. K Shivaram has acted in Kannada films like ‘Vasanta Kavya’, ‘Sangliana Part 3’, ‘Pratibhatane’, ‘Yarige Bede Duddu’, ‘Game for Love’, ‘Tiger’.

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In 2013, K. Shivramu joined Indian National Congress after retirement from Bangalore Regional Commissioner. In 2014, he was a Janata Dal (Secular) member and contested in Bijapur Lok Sabha constituency and lost the election against Ramesh Jigajinagi.

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In 2014, again he rejoined the Indian National Congress in support to get Deputy Chief Minister post to any Dalit leader which led to “a controversy of supporting Dr G. Parameshwar”. On 14 October 2014, he joined Bharatiya Janata Party after failing to recognise a Dalit in a higher place in Indian National Congress politics.