Bengaluru: Hukkeri Constituency MLA Karnataka Government Food and Civil Supplies Minister Umesh Katti aged 61 breathed his last on Tuesday night at 11 pm at M. S. Ramaiah Hospital Bangalore.
Elected eight times as MLA from Hukkeri, he is the third term minister. He entered politics through his Hukkeri constituency when his father Vishwanath Katti died in 1994. Before joining the BJP in 2008, Katti was with JDS, Janata Party, Congress.
He was at Vidhana Soudha till Tuesday afternoon when he got chest pain at home in the evening and rushed to the hospital.
The mortal remains of Katti will be kept for public viewing in the premises of Vishwaraj Sugars at Hukkeri. His last rites will be held at Bellagdbagewadi in Hukkeri.