Newly-elected Karnataka MLA dies in road accident

May 28, 2018 09:44

Former Union minister and newly-elected Karnataka Congress MLA Siddu Nyamagouda died in a road accident in Bagalkote district early today, a senior police official said.

Nyamagouda was on the way to his constituency Jamkhandi from Goa when the car he was travelling in tried to avoid a lorry and hit a road side parapet wall, district superintendent of policeVamshikumar told PTI.

The 70-year-old lawmaker was in New Delhi and had returned to Goa by flight before he proceeded to his constituency by car, he said.

Nyamagouda had suffered severe injuries and died instantly, he said.

He is survived by wife, two sons and three daughters.

Nyamagouda was the Union minister in the P V Narasimha Rao ministry in 1990-91. -- PTI

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