Udupi : The district administration, the city municipal council, and various other departments organised a condolence meeting in honor of Dr. V. S. Acharya, the district-in-charge minister for Udupi and state higher education minister, at Ammanni Ramanna Shetty Auditorium on Feb 15, Wednesday.

Large number of VIPs and common people participated in the event and paid tribute to the late minister. Famous BJP leaders L. K. Advani, CM D. V. Sadananda Gowda, and others spoke on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion, L. K. Advani said that the matter of Udupi, always reminds him of Dr. V. S. Acharya. He played a major in the BJP’s coming to power for the first time in the state; he said that Dr. Acharya was known for his hard work.

Speaking on the occasion, the CM said that Dr. Acharya’s life was an open book.

RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat,Maulana Abdul Aziz Darimi Kallega,Former CM Yeddyurappa, Congress leader and former minister K Jayaprakash Hegde, BJP MP Ananth Kumar, BJP state president K S Eshwarappa, Ministers Shobha Karandlaje, Vishweshwar Bhat Kageri, Basavaraj Bommai, MLAs Yogish Bhat, Mahantesh Kaujalagi, Raghupathi Bhat, Kota Srinivas Poojary, Lalaji R Mendon, MLCs Capt Ganesh Karnit, Bharati Shetty, MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, Udupi church parish priest Fr Fred Mascarenhas, former MLAs Padmanabha Kottary, Sunil Kumar and Nagaraj Shetty, N B Vijaya Ballal, Dr Ramdas Pai, Dr M V Kamath, Dr G Shanker, Deviprasad Shetty, U R Sabhapathi, V Dhananjaya Kumar, CMC president Kiran Kumar, Somashekhar Bhat, ZP president Katapady Shankar Poojary, IGP western zone Pratap Reddy, Gopal Hosur and others were present.