Sushma Swaraj’s Ballari days’ host, doctor passes away

Ballari, Dec 3 : Noted cardiologist and Ballari district Akhil Bharat Brahmana Mahasabha president, B. K Srinivasa Murthy passed away on Thursday due to age-related issues in Bengaluru.
Announcing news of Murthy’s death, on his twitter account, Social Welfare minister, B. Sreeramulu said that Murthy was a soft spoken and he was popularly known to people of Ballari as “BKS Doctor”.
“His death is a personal loss to me. Last year we lost our mother Sushma (Swaraj), this year our BKS doctor,” he told the media.
He further added that Sushma Tayee used to fly down to Ballari to take part in Varamahalakshmi pooja and that pooja used to be held in BKS Doctor’s house. “She came here 12 years and whenever she came she stayed at the doctor’s home,” he recalled.
Cardiologist Murthy had a very close relationship with late external affairs minister and BJP veteran leader, Sushma Swaraj ever since she contested in a high profile electoral battle against then AICC president, Sonia Gandhi in 1999, which was then touted as Swadeshi vs Videshi electoral battle.
Though, Swaraj, then 47 years old, lost her electoral battle, but she had made Ballari her destination every year until 2012, when she would fly down for the Varamahalaksmi puja (puja performed to propitiate Goddes Lakshmi). And this pooja used to be held annually in Murthy’s residence.