Venkatesh Nayak
Indian politician
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| Intro | Indian politician | |
| Places | India | |
| was | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 6 June 1936, Raichur, Raichur district, Gulbarga Division, Karnataka | |
| Death | 24 August 2015Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh, India (aged 79 years) | |
| Politics: | Indian National Congress |
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A. Venkatesh Naik (6 June 1936 – 24 August 2015) was an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party, with whom he had been a member for nearly 50 years. He was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha in 1991 from Raichur constituency in Karnataka. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998, 1999 and 2004 from the same constituency. He secured a seat in the Karnataka legislative assembly elections of 2013 from Devdurga constituency. On 24 August 2015, Nayak was among 5 killed in a train accident in Andhra Pradesh.