Secunderabad Cantonment BRS MLA G Sayanna on Sunday afternoon passed away due to a cardiac arrest.
He was undergoing treatment for kidney ailments at Yashoda Hospitals in Secunderabad at the time of his demise The five-time MLA started his political career in the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and won thrice between 1994 and 2009 as the MLA.
Sayanna was also elected as a member of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam’s (TTD) board in 2015. In 2014, he defeated both TRS and Congress and became the MLA for the TDP party in the same constituency where he lost in the 2009 elections.
Post-2014, he joined the TRS (now BRS) and was the MLA until his last breath.
BRS working president and minister KT Rama Rao expressed his condolences over the demise of Sayanna.
