H. Gopal Bhandary, former MLA, died here on Thursday following a cardiac arrest while he was on a bus bound for Mangaluru. He was 67.
According to reports reaching here, Mr. Bhandary was travelling in a KSRTC bus that left Bengaluru at around 2 p.m. As Mr. Bhandary did not get up from his seat when the bus reached Mangaluru at 10 p.m., the conductor called the police.
Mr. Bhandary was shifted to Wenlock Hospital. Commissioner Sandeep Patil, who visited the hospital, said that Mr. Bhandary had died of a heart attack.