Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Jul 5: Mabula Krishna Kini (84), a Rashriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist and senior BJP leader, breathed his last on Sunday July 3 at his residence in Uppinakote near Brahmavar, after a brief illness. He is survived by three sons and four daughters.

Kini got involved with RSS when he was young, and became an activist of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1950. He used to leave home early morning, carry his lunchbox and move about in a bicycle to popularise his party. He continued to be loyal to RSS and BJP till the end. Even when he was made the president of Agricultural Produce Market Committee of the then undivided Dakshina Kannada district, he never used his official car, and instead, made his trips by buses.

Kini had worked as the vice-president of Dakshina Kannada district unit of Jana Sangh, permanent invitee of BJP’s district unit, director of a number of cooperative societies, president of Varamballi gram panchayat, and director of a number of entities including Dakshina Kannada Milk Union. He also was a trustee of Haradi Varadaraj Venkataramana Temple. During the land reforms, he worked for the tillers and inspired leaders like Dr V S Acharya to do the same.

Various leaders including minister, Dr V S Acharya, M P, D V Sadanand Gowda, MLAs, K Raghupati Bhat, Halady Srinivas Shetty, Lakshminarayana and Lalaji Mendon, MLC, Kota Srinivas Poojary, zilla panchayat president, Katapadi Shankar Poojary, Mysore Tobacco Company chairman, B N Shankar poojary, have mourned the death of Krishna Kini.