Vasant Asnotikar hailed from a rich family in Karnataka’s coastal region. In 1994, for the first time, he ran as the Congress candidate for the Karwar Assembly segment and won. He was also president of the port labour union of Karwar and was considered to be a powerful leader of the region. In 1999, just a year before his death, he contested the polls again and managed to register a whopping margin of about 45,000 votes. But little did he know that his leadership of the labour union was putting his life at risk.
The murder
A year after his victory in the Assembly elections, on February 13, 2000, his eldest daughter got married in Mumbai. Later a reception was to be held in Karwar, for which he personally monitored all the preparations.
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Around 8 pm on February 19, when Asnotikar was about to leave the convention hall where the reception was scheduled, the assailants pumped four bullets into him, shooting almost at point-black range. Though he was shifted to a nearby hospital, his life could not be saved.
Though the Mumbai unde
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Mirji takes charge as additional commissioner
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