Umesh Katti

Umesh Vishwanath Katti was an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party political activist and Minister of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs and Forest of Karnataka from 4 August 2021. He was a six term member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He entered politics after the demise of his father Vishwanath Katti in 1985 who was Member of the Legislative Assembly. He contested the 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections from Hukkeri assembly constituency and won polling by 81,810 votes. On 6th September 2022, he suffered a massive heart attack and collapsed in his bathroom, and breathed his last at M S Ramaiah Hospital in Bangalore at 00:01 IST, 7th September 2022.