His last rites were conducted at the Mahaprasthanam in Jubilee Hills with state honours in the evening
The last rites will be held at Mahaprasthanam in Jubilee hills between 3 and 4 p.m. — Facebook
Hyderabad: Jubilee Hills MLA Maganti Gopinath died at a hospital here on Sunday following a heart attack. He was 62. Gopinath is survived by his wife Suneetha, a son and two daughters.
His last rites were conducted at the Mahaprasthanam in Jubilee Hills with state honours in the evening.
Doctors declared Gopinath, thrice MLA, dead at around 5.45 am following a heart attack. He had been admitted to the AIG Hospitals in Gachibowli following an earlier heart attack on June 5 and was being treated in the intensive care unit.
Cutting across party lines, leaders went to his house in Doctor’s Colony, Madhapur, consoled his family members and paid tribute. A large number of Gopinath’s admirers and party activists queued up to pay tribute at his residence.
Born on June 2, 1963, Gopinath entered politics in 1983, joining the Telugu Desam and moved up the party ranks to be appointed president of Telugu Yuvatha. He later went on to be a director in the then Hyderabad Urban Development Authority, and was for some time president of the TD unit for Hyderabad district.
Gopinath was first elected to the Assembly in 2014 on a TD ticket from Jubilee Hills, and joined the BRS soon after. In the 2018 elections, he contested on a BRS ticket and won from the same constituency, and in 2023 delivered a hat-trick by the seat for the third time running.
Gopinath was born to Maganti Krishnamurthy and Mahananda Kumari. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Osmania University in 1983, the same year he joined the TD. Gopinath also dabbled in the Telugu movie industry, producing his first film ‘Patha Basthi’ in 1995, which he followed up with ‘Ravanna’ and ‘Bhadradri Ramudu’. ‘Na Stylay Veru’ was the last of the movies he was directly involved with, in 2009.
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, Telangana BJP chief and Union minister G. Kishan Reddy, BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, ministers Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and Ponnam Prabahakar, TD general secretary and AP IT minister Nara Lokesh and his wife Brahmini, former ministers K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao paid floral tributes to Gopinath at his residence.
They were joined, among others, by Congress MP Anil Kumar Yadav and Khairatabad Congress district president Dr C. Rohin Reddy. Chandrashekar Rao broke into tears on seeing Gopinath’s body at his residence. Rama Rao, Harish Rao, and BRS Amberpet MLA Karelu Venkatesh carried the pall bearing Gopinath’s body.
The others who paid their tribute to MLA Gopinath were MLC Kavita, senior actor Murli Mohan and Congress leader Mohammad Azharuddin who lost to Gopinath in the 2023 elections.
His last rites were conducted at the Mahaprasthanam in Jubilee Hills with state honours in the evening.
Doctors declared Gopinath, thrice MLA, dead at around 5.45 am following a heart attack. He had been admitted to the AIG Hospitals in Gachibowli following an earlier heart attack on June 5 and was being treated in the intensive care unit.
Cutting across party lines, leaders went to his house in Doctor’s Colony, Madhapur, consoled his family members and paid tribute. A large number of Gopinath’s admirers and party activists queued up to pay tribute at his residence.
Born on June 2, 1963, Gopinath entered politics in 1983, joining the Telugu Desam and moved up the party ranks to be appointed president of Telugu Yuvatha. He later went on to be a director in the then Hyderabad Urban Development Authority, and was for some time president of the TD unit for Hyderabad district.
Gopinath was first elected to the Assembly in 2014 on a TD ticket from Jubilee Hills, and joined the BRS soon after. In the 2018 elections, he contested on a BRS ticket and won from the same constituency, and in 2023 delivered a hat-trick by the seat for the third time running.
Gopinath was born to Maganti Krishnamurthy and Mahananda Kumari. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Osmania University in 1983, the same year he joined the TD. Gopinath also dabbled in the Telugu movie industry, producing his first film ‘Patha Basthi’ in 1995, which he followed up with ‘Ravanna’ and ‘Bhadradri Ramudu’. ‘Na Stylay Veru’ was the last of the movies he was directly involved with, in 2009.
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, Telangana BJP chief and Union minister G. Kishan Reddy, BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, ministers Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and Ponnam Prabahakar, TD general secretary and AP IT minister Nara Lokesh and his wife Brahmini, former ministers K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao paid floral tributes to Gopinath at his residence.
They were joined, among others, by Congress MP Anil Kumar Yadav and Khairatabad Congress district president Dr C. Rohin Reddy. Chandrashekar Rao broke into tears on seeing Gopinath’s body at his residence. Rama Rao, Harish Rao, and BRS Amberpet MLA Karelu Venkatesh carried the pall bearing Gopinath’s body.
The others who paid their tribute to MLA Gopinath were MLC Kavita, senior actor Murli Mohan and Congress leader Mohammad Azharuddin who lost to Gopinath in the 2023 elections.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle )
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