K. Vasanth Bangera, five-time Belthangady MLA, passes away
The Hindu
K. Vasanth Bangera, fomer MLA from Belthangady for five terms, passed away at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
K. Vasanth Bangera, fomer MLA from Belthangady for five terms, passed away at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
He was 78. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. Mr. Bangera was being treated at the hospital for some time. His body will be brought to Belthangady on Thursday, May 9, for cremation, sources said.
A party-hopper, Mr. Bangera won five of the nine Assembly elections he contested from the Belthangady constituency in Dakshina Kannada by being in the BJP, Janata Dal, and Congress.
Mr. Bangera was among the 18 BJP candidates who got elected to the Karnataka Assembly for the first time in 1983. He was among the only two leaders who got re-elected to the Assembly from the BJP in 1985. The other one was B.S. Yediyurappa.
He was elected to the Assembly as the Janata Dal candidate in 1994. Later, he joined the Congress and won the 2008 and 2013 elections.
He lost his last and ninth election against K. Harish Poonja of the BJP in 2018.
Interestingly, Mr. Bangera faced his younger brother K. Prabhakara Bangera of the BJP in five of the nine elections.
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