Former Union Minister and newly elected Congress MLA Siddu Nyamagouda breathed his last after a road accident in Bagalkote district on a Monday morning, a senior police official said.
Nyamagouda was on his way from Goa to his Constituency Jamkhandi, when the car he was travelling in, tried to avoid a lorry and hit a roadside parapet wall, District Superintendent of Police Vamshikumar told.
According to a police Source, the seriously injured MLA was taken to a hospital but was declared brought dead.
He is survived by wife, two sons and three daughters.
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