BJP MP from Karnataka's Chamarajanagar and former Union minister V Sreenivasa Prasad passed away at the age of 76 in Bengaluru.

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BJP MP from Karnataka's Chamarajanagar and former Union minister V Sreenivasa Prasad passed away at the age of 76 in Bengaluru. On March 18 this year, Prasad announced his retirement from electoral politics. He started his political career with the erstwhile Janata Party in 1976 and joined the Congress in 1979. He also had a stint with the JD(S), JD(U), and the Samata Party before joining the BJP. Prasad served as the Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs Food and Public Distribution in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1999 to 2004. He joined the Congress later, got elected as an MLA in 2013 and became the revenue and religious endowment minister in the Siddaramaiah government.


     

     

     

 

     


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