Mysuru :
Chandraprabha Urs (70), former Minister, former MP and daughter of former Chief Minister late D. Devaraj Urs, passed away at Apollo BGS Hospital here yesterday following prolonged illness.
She leaves behind her son Manjunath Urs, daughter Anupama Urs, younger sister Bharathi Urs and a host of relatives and friends.
Her husband Mohan Raj Urs and younger son Ajay Urs had predeceased her.
Entry into politics: Chandraprabha had worked closely with her father Devaraj Urs and nurtured interest in politics. She contested her first election under Kranthi Ranga banner from Hunsur constituency in the 1983 Assembly polls, won by a huge margin and went on to become Social Welfare Minister in the Ramakrishna Hegde Government. She was re-elected from Hunsur on a Congress ticket in the 1989 Assembly polls.
Chandraprabha Urs contested on a Congress ticket when Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar joined the BJP and won the Lok Sabha polls in 1991.
Education: After having her primary education at Kallahalli in Hunsur taluk, her father Devaraj Urs’ home town, she attended high school at Hunsur and moved to Mysuru for further studies. After completing her PUC at Maharani’s PU College in Mysuru, she did her B.Sc from Maharani’s College, Bengaluru. She married Mohan Raj Urs in 1970s.
Bed-ridden: Chandraprabha Urs had sustained grievous leg injuries in a road mishap near Hunsur in 2008, when the car she was travelling collided with a milk van. She could not recover since then and developed health complications, which forced her to keep away from active politics, it is learnt.
She was admitted to Apollo BGS Hospital about 8 days ago, where she breathed her last late Tuesday evening.
Her body was brought to her residence at Sai Shree Mohan Sadan Apartment, opposite Hardwicke Church near the double tank in Lakshmipuram this morning.
Last respects: Former MLC D. Madegowda, City Congress President T.S. Ravishankar, Congress leader Vikrant P. Devegowda, DCC President Dr. B.J. Vijaykumar, Tahsildar Naveen Joseph were among the dignitaries and officials who paid their last respects.
Minister H.S. Mahadevaprasad, MLA Vasu and other political leaders paid their last respects to the mortal remains of Chandraprabha Urs at Apollo BGS Hospital last evening and consoled the family members.
She had premonition about her death?
Meanwhile, one Kempananjappa, a resident of Kallahalli village, has claimed that Chandraprabha Urs, who had premonitions about her death, had asked him to ensure that her funeral rituals be conducted next to that of her father’s tomb at Kallahalli.
He also said that Chandraprabha, who visited Kallahalli three months ago, had summoned him to her residence and took him to her father’s Samadhi.
D.D. Urs’ family neglected?
Meanwhile, her family members have alleged that Congress party leaders, who were benefitted by Devaraj Urs’ programmes, did not give the family a political space in the party.
It is said, Chandraprabha Urs had on many occasions expressed regret over the Congress High Command and Party State leaders for not showing interest in retrieving the political future of the once powerful family of old Mysuru region.
Chandraprabha’s daughter Anupama, who had sought a Congress ticket from Hunsur in 2013, was denied the ticket.
Though Chandraprabha Urs showed interest in fielding her family members in elections, the party leaders did not bother to call on them, it is learnt.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Wednesday – May 04th, 2016