Bengaluru, Nov 25: The Karnataka government on Sunday declared three-day mourning for actor-turned-politician M H Ambareesh who died at a private hospital on Saturday night following a cardiac arrest.
"As a mark of respect to the departed leader, government has declared an official mourning of three days," a statement from Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy's office said.
Hours after the announcement, another senior politician and former union minister C K Jaffer Sharief breathed his last in Bengaluru. Ambareesh was 66 and Sharief was 85.
This is the second time in November the state government declared mourning after doing so to late Union Minister Ananth Kumar on November 12 when he died in the city.
The superstar of the sandalwood industry was a former cabinet minister in the previous Congress government from May 2013 to June 2016.
Ambareesh was also the Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting in the first United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government from 2006-2007 and a Parliament member from Mandya Lok Sabha constituency, about 100 km from here.
Sherief represented the Bengaluru North Lok Sabha constituency without a break between 1977 and 1996. He brought several railway projects to Bengaluru and is credited for handling the broad gauge conversion of the railway tracks across the country.
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