ex-MP Kanithi Viswanatham passes away

Former Member of Parliament, a medical doctor, Kanithi Viswanatham, 91, died in Palasa, Srikakulam district on Saturday.

Srikakulam: Former Member of Parliament, Kanithi Viswanatham, 91, died in Palasa on Saturday.

A medical doctor, he was elected to Lok Sabha twice on Congress ticket in 1989 and 1991.

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A close associate of late YS Rajasekhara Reddy, he later joined the YSR Congress Party.

However, he left it and joined the BJP in 2014 and continued in it.