Venkataiah Srinivas Prasad, former union minister and BJP Lok Sabha MP of Chamarajanagar reserved constituency passed away at a private hospital here in the wee hours on Monday. He was 77 years old. He served as a union minister between 1999 and 2004 as part of the third Vajpayee government, and later as Minister of Revenue in the Government of Karnataka between 2013 and 2016.
