Karnataka Congress MLA Siddu B Nyamagouda dies in road accident
The accident took place when the Jamkhandi legislator was on his way from Goa to his home district Bagalkot.
Newly-elected Karnataka Congress legislator Siddu B Nyamagouda died in a road accident on Monday morning, the police said.
The accident took place when the Jamkhandi MLA was on his way from Goa to his home district Bagalkot. The car in which Nyamagouda was travelling hit a truck near Tulasigeri. Unidentified police officials told The Times of India that the injured MLA was taken to a hospital, but doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Nyamagouda was re-elected from Jamkhandi in the recently-concluded Karnataka elections. With his death, the Congress now has 77 MLAs in the Karnataka Assembly.
He defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party nominee Shrikanth Subbarao Kulkarni by a margin of more than 2,500 votes. Nyamagouda was a Union minister in the PV Narasimha Rao government in 1990-’91.
Extremely saddened by the passing of Jamkhandi MLA, Shri Siddu B Nyamagouda in a road accident. He was a deeply committed and hard working leader of @INCKarnataka. We will miss him.
— Dr. G Parameshwara (@DrParameshwara) May 28, 2018
My condolences to his friends and family. https://t.co/h3T35KEGAz
ನಮ್ಮ ಪಕ್ಷದ ಶಾಸಕ ಸಿದ್ದುನ್ಯಾಮಗೌಡ ಅವರ ಅಕಾಲಿಕ ಸಾವು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಆಘಾತಕ್ಕೀಡು ಮಾಡಿದೆ. 'ಬ್ಯಾರೇಜ್ ಸಿದ್ದು' ಎಂದೇ ಜನಪ್ರಿಯರಾಗಿದ್ದ ಸಿದ್ದು ನ್ಯಾಮಗೌಡ ಅವರು ಶಾಸಕ ಸಂಸದ, ಮತ್ತು ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸಚಿವರಾಗಿ ಜನ ಸದಾ ನೆನಪು ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವಂತಹ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಸ್ನೇಹಿತ ಸಿದ್ದು ನ್ಯಾಮಗೌಡರಿಗೆ ನನ್ನ ದುಃಖ ತಪ್ತ ಶ್ರದ್ಧಾಂಜಲಿ. pic.twitter.com/U8IZBKL3ql
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) May 28, 2018
Congress MLA Siddu Nyama Gowda passed away in a road accident near Tulasigeri. He was on his way from Goa to Bagalkot. #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/0V8R9spaHh
— ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2018
