Correct Answer : 29th April 2024
Veteran politician, BJP MP and former Union Minister V Sreenivasa Prasad died on Monday (29th April 2024), family sources said.
* The 76-year-old Lok Sabha member from Chamarajnagar was ailing for some time and being treated at a private hospital, where he passed away early today.
* Prasad is survived by wife and three daughters.
* He was a six-time MP from Chamarajanagar and also served as MLA from Nanjangud in Mysuru district for two terms.
* On March 18 this year, Prasad announced his retirement from electoral politics, marking his 50 years in public life.
* He first contested Assembly elections as an independent in 1974.
* Prasad joined the erstwhile Janata Party in 1976 and switched over to the Congress in 1979. He also had a stint with the JD(S), JD (U), and the Samata Party before crossing over to 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 returned to the Congress fold later, got elected as an MLA in 2013 and became Revenue Minister in the Siddaramaiah government.
* In 2016, Prasad resigned from the Assembly and rejoined the BJP. He contested the 2017 Nanjangud bypolls on a BJP ticket but lost. He then successfully fought the Lok Sabha election from Chamarajanagar in 2019.
* Condoling his death, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah described Prasad as a strong voice for the oppressed Dalits.
