Four-time MLA Manohar Tahasildar passes away at 78

BENGALURU: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former minister Manohar Tahasildar passed away on Thursday at a private hospital in Bengaluru at the age of 78.

He was admitted to the Shankara hospital in Bengaluru’s Chamrajpet and passed away due to a long illness. Tahasildar was a four-time MLA from Hanagal Legislative Assembly constituency and won the seat in 1978, 1989, 1999, and 2013. Tahasildar didn’t contest the elections in 2018.

Former CM Basavaraj Bommai had called on Manohar Tahasildar in hospital recently.

Tahasildar, a BE mechanical graduate, is survived by four sons and two daughters. He remained a strong electoral opponent to BJP leader C M Udasi who was elected MLA from Hanagal Assembly constituency six times in 1983, 1985, 1994, 2004, 2008 and 2018. Udasi passed away in June 2021.

The former minister had joined the BJP earlier in March this year. He served as the Minister for Excise in the Siddaramaiah-led government from October 2015 to June 2016. Tahasildar was a leader of the Congress party for over four decades before he joined Janata Dal (Secular) ahead of the the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections. (ANI)