Warangal: Ex-MLA Dugyala Srinivas Rao no more

Warangal: Former Palakurthy MLA Dugyala Srinivas Rao (57) passed away at a private hospital in Hyderabad on Monday. Details about his illness are yet to be known. He contested on TRS ticket and won the Palakurthy Assembly seat in 2004 before changing loyalties to the Congress.

Dugyala was an Ayurvedic doctor. He completed BAMS from Ananta Lakshmi Ayurvedic Medical College in Warangal in 1986. He contested on Congress ticket and lost twice to Errabelli Dayakar Rao (then in Telugu Desam) in 2009 and 2014.

Meanwhile, it's learnt that Dugyala's last rites would be performed at the graveyard near Padmakshi hillock on Tuesday.