K M Mani

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A brief biography

1933-2019

April 10, 2019: The Times of India

An MLA for a record 54 years and undefeated from a single constituency — Pala — 13 times, Mani was finance minister 11 times and won every conceivable political laurel, except the most prized one: the CM’s post. Immensely popular at the grassroots level, Mani’s ready wit and spontaneous exuberance were a foil to the ready ruthlessness with which he often undercut rivals, most of them friends-turned-foes.

The only blot on his long career was the so-called bar scandal, when he was accused in 2014 of taking a Rs 1 cr bribe for renewing licenses of 400 bars.