Bengaluru: Veteran Congress leader and former Minister D.B. Inamdar (77) of Kittur passed away at a private hospital in Bengaluru this morning following brief illness.

Inamdar, a five-time MLA from Kittur Assembly Constituency in Belagavi district, had won on a Janata Party ticket in 1983 and 1985 and as a Congress candidate in 1994,1999 and 2013. He had contested the Assembly nine times, out of which he won 5 times and lost four times (1989, 2004, 2008 and 2018). He was  confident of getting elected  from Kittur again in the 2023 Assembly polls and had organised Congress Party’s Prajadhwani rally at Kittur. After the event, Inamdar took ill during his stay in Bengaluru and was hospitalised for treatment.