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G. Mallikarjunappa, MP, is dead

By Our Staff Correspondent

CHITRADURGA NOV. 30. G. Mallikarjunappa, Davangere MP and business tycoon, died in Mumbai on Sunday evening. He was 76.

He had been suffering from a prolonged illness. He was taken to a Mumbai hospital recently for treatment. According to family sources, he was suffering from lymphoma of the brain. He was diagnosed with this disease and treated in Mumbai last year. He fell seriously ill around 15 days ago and was rushed to Mumbai. There, he developed jaundice leading to multiple organ failure on Saturday evening.

His body will be brought to Bheema Samudra, his native place in Chitradurga taluk, on Monday evening and the last rites will be performed on Tuesday evening, family sources said.

He was elected to Parliament twice — in 1996 and in 1999 — from Davangere Lok Sabha constituency as the BJP candidate. He lost the Lok Sabha election in 1998 to Shamanoor Shivashankarappa.

Mr. Mallikarjunappa was known as the "areca nut king" in central Karnataka. He was born in 1927 and his business boomed with the rise in areca prices in the mid-1990's.

He is survived by his wife, three sons, four daughters and 14 grandchildren.

He was the president of Sadu Saddharma Veerashaiva Sangha, a powerful organisation of Lingayats. He was the founder of many educational institutions, including G.M. Institute of Technology, a hi-tech college in Davangere.

Mourned

Our Special Correspondent writes from Bangalore:

The President of the BJP State unit, H.N. Ananth Kumar, the General Secretary, Aravind Limbavalli, Ramachandra Gowda and Vimala Gowda, MLCs, and the party's Campaign Committee Chairman, B.S. Yediyurappa, have mourned the death of Mr. Mallikarjunappa.

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