Bagalkote

Newly-elected Congress MLA from Karnataka Siddu Nyamagouda died in a road accident in Bagalkote district early today, a senior police official informed.

Nyamagouda was on the way to his constituency Jamkhandi from Goa when the car he was travelling in tried to avoid a truck and hit a roadside parapet wall, District Superintendent of Police Vamshikumar told reporters. Nyamagouda had suffered severe injuries and died on the spot, he added.

The 70-year-old MLA had returned to Goa from New Delhi by flight before he proceeded to his constituency by car, he said.

Nyamagouda was the union minister in the P V Narasimha Rao ministry in 1990-91