: Union minister is currently stable, reports say.
Union Minister Sadananda Gowda was admitted to a private Bengaluru hospital on Sunday after he collapsed in central Karnataka the same day. Gowda, the Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, had collapsed during lunch in the Chitradurga district, about 200 km from Bangalore. He reportedly collapsed as soon as he got out of his vehicle at a hotel where he was scheduled to have lunch.
Gowda was returning to Bengaluru from Shivamogga after a party event in which he was accompanying Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and other high-ranking leaders of the Karnataka BJP unit.
The minister was transferred to Bangalore via a zero-traffic corridor from Basaveshwara hospital for detailed monitoring and control. Doctors at Basaveshwara Hospital in Chitradurga said he was stable and had collapsed due to low blood sugar and fatigue. His condition is reportedly stable. The union minister had recently recovered from COVID-19. He had tested positive for the virus in November 2019.
In a tweet made earlier in the day, Gowda congratulated BJP Chief Minister and State President Nalin Kumar Kateel on the recent anti-slaughter law ordinance introduced in the State Assembly. In the photo shared by DVS, he is seen sharing the stage with Yediyurappa, Kateel, the Minister of Rural Development KS Eshwarappa BY Vijayendra, state vice president among others.
Gowda, a former Chief Minister, had beaten his closest rival, Byre Gowda by a comfortable margin of 1,46,100 votes to win the Bangalore North Lok Sabha seat for the second time. In 2014, he won from the same seat for the first time. His two previous victories in the Lok Sabha elections came from the old Mangalore and Udupi-Chikmagalur seats on the Karnataka coast.
In his previous term, he held the portfolios of Minister of Statistics and Program Implementation, Law and Justice, and Railways.
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