Long wait pays off for soft-spoken S Angara
Express News Service
MANGALURU: It has been a many years’ lengthy wait for S Angara, a six-time MLA from Sullia meeting constituency in Dakshina Kannada, who lastly made it to the State Cabinet on Wednesday. The identify of the 62-year-old, who represents a SC-reserved constituency, would float every time BJP was in energy ever because it stitched an alliance with JDS to type the federal government in 2006, however a minister’s put up one way or the other at all times eluded him.Angara’s prospects appeared vivid when B S Yediyurappa took oath as chief minister once more about one-and-a-half years in the past, because the 5 others elected together with him from Dakshina Kannada district had been first-timers.
But the soft-spoken MLA didn’t stand an opportunity amid stiff lobbying from others, particularly
the turncoats. Angara, who dropped out of highschool to assist his household by working as a every day wager in arecanut plantations, at all times believed that his work ought to fetch him a minister’s put up.
When the BJP determined to area him for MLA election for the primary time in 1994, he was nonetheless working as a every day wager. He is understood for simplicity and nonetheless lives in Dasanakaje village the place he was born. “It is a miracle. We had given up hopes of him becoming a minister in this government, given the stiff lobbying from many aspirants. Angara didn’t lobby and yet got it, which is something great,” stated a celebration chief. Angara is almost definitely to interchange Kota Srinivas Poojary as Dakshina Kannada’s district in-charge minister because the latter is from Udupi.
