SM Krishna trends on Google search following news of his passing

SM Krishna passed away at around 2.30-2.45 am due to age-related issues.

Soon after returning from the United States, Krishna began his career in electoral politics and became an important part of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). (File photo)

Former Karnataka Chief Minister and ex-External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is the top trending topic on Tuesday morning after the news of his demise became public. Krishna, credited with putting Bengaluru on the global map, passed away in the early hours of Tuesday. He was 92. According to sources, Krishna passed away at around 2.30-2.45 am due to age-related issues.

As per trends.google, SM Krishna is the trending topic with over 50k searches and a massive surge of 1000 percent in a span of just 3 hours.

SM Krishna passed away at 92 (trends.google screengrab)

During his nearly six-decade-long political career, mostly with the Congress party, Krishna was an MLA and MLC as well as a member of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha multiple times, even as he assumed a range of high public offices, including the posts of chief minister, governor and the external affairs minister. Krishna joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2017, and announced retirement from active politics in January last year.

Born on May 1, 1932, Krishna’s political journey began in the early 1960s when he won the Maddur Assembly seat as an Independent candidate and later on the Praja Socialist Party ticket. He also went on to become the MP from Mandya in 1968. He later joined the Congress. Though he was elected as an MP twice in a short period (1968-70 and 1971-72), he wanted to remain in state politics and so he returned to get elected as an MLC. In the Devaraj Urs cabinet during 1972-77, Krishna was inducted as the commerce, industries and parliamentary affairs minister.

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