Danappagouda Basanagouda Inamdar, former Minister and veteran Congress leader, died in Bengaluru on April 25. He was 74. The final rites will be performed in his native village of Neginal near Kittur in Belagavi district on April 26 at 2 p.m.
He was admitted to Manipal hospital in Bengaluru in March following complaints of ailments of the lungs and liver, family sources said. Son Basanagouda Inamdar was beside him at the hospital when the end came, they said.
He entered politics in 1983, after the death of his father B.D. Inamdar. He won the Kittur seat as a Janata Party candidate. He joined the Congress in 1991.