Daijiworld Media Network – Moodbidri (SP)

Moodbidri, Aug 19: M Narayana Devadiga (78), former president of the local municipality, breathed his last on Thursday August 18. He was the elder brother of union minister, M Veerappa Moily. Devadiga is survived by wife and two brothers.

After serving the local municipality in the capacity of vice president between 1984 and 1987, he worked as its president during 1987-88 and 1989-94. During his period, the municipal commercial complex and Raji Gandhi commercial complexes were built by the municipality. He had served as Moodbidri block Congress president for ten years, and was also a KPCC member. His sincere work as the president of local Devadigara Sudharaka Sangha and Ram Mandir Renovation Committee is even remembered now.

Devadiga was an ardent devotee of Lord Ram, and had named his house in Alangar as ‘Mithila’. He was simple, innocent, and religiously inclined. Besides participating in Bhajans in temples, he used to be an amateur Yakshagana Arthadhari.

Immediately after the news of Devadiga’s death reached him, Veerappa Moily came from New Delhi with his wife, Malati Moily, and reached Moodbidri at around 7.30 pm, and participated in the funeral. MLA Abhay Chandra Jain, local municipal president, Ratnakar Devadiga, block Congress president, Meghanad Shetty, B Ramanath Rai, Dr M Mohan Alva, BJP leader, K P Jagadish Adhikari and many others paid their last respects to the departed leader.

Former union minister, B Janardhan Poojary, Rajya Sabha member, Oscar Fernandes, MLAs, U T Khader and Gopal Bhandary, Bondala Jagannath Shetty, and scores of other dignitaries have mourned the death of Devadiga, and offered condolences to the bereaved family.