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Rudresh Gowda
Indian politician
Rudresh Gowda (16 October 1955[1] – 24 March 2018) was an Indian politician.
Gowda trained to be a lawyer.[2] He joined the Janata Party in 1985 and was elected to the Hassan District Council until 1996.[3] Gowda sat in the 11th Lok Sabha, representing Janata Dal and the Janata Party in between 1996 and 1997.[3][4] He left Janata Dal (Secular) in 2004 for the Indian National Congress.[4] Gowda won election to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly as a representative of Belur in 2008 and 2013.[4] He suffered a heart attack on 23 March 2018 and died of multiple organ failure the next day at a hospital in Bangalore, aged 62.[5][6]