Former MLA passes away

Former MLA U M Madappa (96), who was the first Member of Legislative Assembly (Praja Socialist Party) from Chamarajanagar Assembly seat in the 1952 elections, passed away after a brief illness at M S Ramaiah Hospital in Bengaluru on Thursday.

The last rites will be conducted at his native village Udigala in Chamarajanagar on Friday afternoon. Madappa, a graduate from the Maharaja's College in Mysuru, pursued law in a college in Belagavi. He jumped into the freedom struggle and also participated in the Vishala Karnataka agitation. He also served as a senate member of the University of Mysore, Director of Warehouse Corporation, Managing Director of Kunthuru Mahadeshwara Sugar factory and also as advisor of Agriculture Cooperative Advisory Board.