<p>Hyderabad: Opposition BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath passed away early on Sunday at a private hospital here following a heart attack.</p>.<p>He was 63.</p>.<p>Gopinath had been admitted to the AIG Hospitals on June 5 after a massive heart attack.</p>.<p>He was declared dead at 5.45 am, the hospital said.</p>.<p>Gopinath, MLA from Jubilee Hills here, had defeated Congress leader and former cricketer Mohd Azharuddin in the 2023 assembly elections.</p>.<p>A former TDP leader, Gopinath served as the party's Hyderabad unit president and was elected from Jubilee Hills on a TDP ticket in 2014. He joined the ruling BRS (then TRS) in 2016 along with several other TDP legislators. He was re-elected to the Assembly on a BRS ticket in 2018 and again in 2023.</p>.<p>Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Union Minister and state BJP president G Kishan Reddy, BRS Working President K T Rama Rao and several other leaders condoled the demise of Gopinath. </p>
<p>Hyderabad: Opposition BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath passed away early on Sunday at a private hospital here following a heart attack.</p>.<p>He was 63.</p>.<p>Gopinath had been admitted to the AIG Hospitals on June 5 after a massive heart attack.</p>.<p>He was declared dead at 5.45 am, the hospital said.</p>.<p>Gopinath, MLA from Jubilee Hills here, had defeated Congress leader and former cricketer Mohd Azharuddin in the 2023 assembly elections.</p>.<p>A former TDP leader, Gopinath served as the party's Hyderabad unit president and was elected from Jubilee Hills on a TDP ticket in 2014. He joined the ruling BRS (then TRS) in 2016 along with several other TDP legislators. He was re-elected to the Assembly on a BRS ticket in 2018 and again in 2023.</p>.<p>Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Union Minister and state BJP president G Kishan Reddy, BRS Working President K T Rama Rao and several other leaders condoled the demise of Gopinath. </p>