Mysuru: Dr. HC Mahadevappa, Mysuru District In-charge Minister, has officially invited Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to the world-famous Dasara celebrations to be held in Mysuru.

Dr. Mahadevappa, who is also the Karnataka Social Welfare Minister, met the CM at his residence in the city on Wednesday. He formally invited Siddaramaiah for the Mysuru 'Nadahabba', felicitating him with a shawl and a garland, and offering the CM a basket of fruits, the conventional 'tambula' and an invitation for the grand Dasara function.

The minister was accompanied on the occasion by legislators Ravishankar and AR Krishnamurthy, Mysuru Mayor Shivakumar, Deputy Commissioner Dr. KV Rajendra, Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer KM Gayathri, Additional DC P Shivaraju and City Police Commissioner Ramesh Banoth, among others.

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Bengaluru (PTI): Veteran Congress leader Shamanuru Shivashankarappa passed away at a private hospital here on Sunday due to age-related ailments, official sources said.

He was 95 and represented the Davanagere South Assembly constituency. He had been undergoing treatment at the hospital for some time.

Shivashankarappa is survived by three sons, including S S Mallikarjun, Karnataka Minister for Mines and Geology and Horticulture, and four daughters.

His daughter-in-law, Prabha Mallikarjun, is the Member of Parliament from Davanagere.

A former minister, Shivashankarappa, served as treasurer of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) for several decades and was the president of the All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha, the apex body of the influential Veerashaiva-Lingayat community.

He was also a noted educationist who established several educational institutions and was an industrialist.