Mangalore, December 26: “It was a shock for me and entire Karnataka”, said veteran Congress leader B Janardhan Poojary reacting to the death of former Karnataka chief minister S Bangarappa.
“Bangarappa was a humanist, a socialist and a forthright person”, Poojary described.
Addressing the media persons, Mr Poojary, who enjoyed four decades of friendship with Late Bangarappa, went down memory lane in paying tributes to him.
“Irrespective of the political party Bangarappa was in, my friendship with him never faded. We always had healthy respect for each other,” he said.
He also recalled that in 1979 he played an active role in recommending Bangarappa's name for the post of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President to the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
“I was one among the Congress leaders who fought against the false allegations leveled against Bangarappa, when he was the chief minister of Karnataka”, Poojary said.
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