Mangala Angadi recalls her husband’s work

‘Suresh Angadi was a COVID-19 warrior as even during its peak he was going around helping the poor’

Mangala Angadi, BJP candidate for the Belagavi Lok Sabha seat bypoll, likened her husband late Suresh Angadi to a COVID-19 warrior, at a party meeting here on Tuesday. At her first public speech after being nominated by the BJP, she said that her husband was a martyr like the many COVID-19 warriors who had succumbed to the virus. Even during the peak of the virus, he was going around helping the poor. He became a martyr, she said. He worked relentlessly to develop the constituency for 20 years. In a short time of around 14 months that he was Union Minister, he strove to get new projects for Belagavi and the State. Some of them were unprecedented, she said. She sat next to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and took notes while others spoke at the meeting. Removing her mask only to speak, she made a brief speech. She made an emotional appeal to party workers and friends and followers of Angadi to help her realise his dreams for the constituency. This would further strengthen the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mr. Yediyurappa, she said.