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As a career bureaucrat, Bhaskar Rao has donned many hats, including that of Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City. He started his political innings with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in 2022, but after just 11 months switched sides to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In return, he was given a ticket to contest the Assembly Elections from the Chamarajpet constituency against Zameer Ahmed, a four-time sitting MLA, who also started in Janata Dal (S) before moving to the Congress party.  The Chamarajpet Constituency with seven wards - Padarayanapura, JagajeevanramNagar, Rayapuram, Chalavadipalya, KR Market, Chamarajpet and Azadnagar - houses some of…

Find out how Padmanabhanagar Assembly Constituency is faring and what the major issues in this constituency are. Learn about the incumbent MLA R Ashok (BJP) and other candidates. Table of contentsAbout the constituencyKey issues in the constituencyKey parameters – How does this constituency fare? SchoolingMobilityCitizen engagementHealth Constituency mapCitizen demands Incumbent MLA: R AshokWork in the termIn the news List of candidatesIncumbent MLA R Ashok, BJP V Raghunath Naidu, INCAjay Mayanna Gowda, AAPFull list of candidatesPast election results About the constituency Located in the south of the city, the Padmanabhanagar constituency consists of the Umamaheshwari ward, Ganesh mandir ward, Vikram Nagar and…

Find out how Bangalore South Assembly Constituency is faring and what the major issues in this constituency are. Learn about the incumbent MLA M. Krishnappa (BJP) and other candidates, including AAP's Ashok Mruthyunjaya and Congress's RK Ramesh. Table of contentsAbout the constituency Key issues in the constituencyKey parameters - How does this constituency fare?Schooling MobilityCitizen engagement HealthConstituency mapCitizen demandsIncumbent MLA: M KrishnappaWork in the termIn the news Questions raised in the AssemblyList of candidatesIncumbent MLA M Krishnappa (BJP) Candidate: Ashok Mruthyunjaya (AAP)Candidate: RK Ramesh (INC)Full list of candidatesPast election results About the constituency The Bangalore South constituency, which is part of…

Find out how Byatarayanapura Assembly Constituency is faring and what the major issues in this constituency are. Learn about the incumbent MLA Krishna Byre Gowda (INC) and other candidates, including Thammesh Gowda H C (BJP), Girish Kumar Naidu (AAP) and Nagaraj Gowda P (JDS). Table of contentsAbout the constituencyKey issues in the constituencyKey parameters - How does this constituency fare? SchoolingMobilityCitizen engagementHealth Constituency mapCitizen demandsIncumbent MLA: Krishna Byre GowdaWork in the termIn the newsQuestions raised in the AssemblyList of candidatesIncumbent MLA Krishna Byre Gowda, INC Candidate: Thammesh Gowda H C, BJPCandidate: Nagaraj Gowda P, JD(S)Candidate: Girish Kumar Naidu, AAPFull list of candidates   Past elections…

Krishna Byre Gowda, from the Indian National Congress (INC), has been the MLA of Byatarayanapura since the constituency was formed in 2008. As part of his campaign to win the fourth term, he interacted with representatives of apartment associations in his constituency on April 9th. The MLA spoke about his achievements and answered key questions from the constituents. He also shared with Citizen Matters his plans for the next term if elected and his stance on certain important issues. The INC team and KBG, as he is popularly called, stressed multiple times on the MLA’s image as a clean and…

Indian National Congress' Dinesh Gundu Rao and the incumbent Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Gandhinagar met with apartment owners in Gandhinagar on April 8th to listen to their grievances. He promised to devise solutions for the same. The former state Minister of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, has won from Gandhinagar five times in a row. He had called out the ruling party for the crumbling infrastructure in the city and criticised the inaction over pothole-ridden roads. He holds a B.E. in Electronics and Communications from BMS College of Engineering.…

 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Spokesperson and Rajya Sabha Member Sanjay Singh released the list of Aam Aadmi Party guarantees for the Karnataka assembly elections in Bengaluru on March 29th. Read more: How we registered our Apartment Owners Association under KAOA, 1972 Addressing a press conference at the party's state office, Sanjay Singh said, “Aam Aadmi Party is not a party that gives false promises. We offer a guarantee card with 100% fulfillment. We have fulfilled all the guarantees in the manifesto in Delhi. One by one is being implemented in Punjab as well." "Major guarantees related to total ten…

Final voter lists have been released for Shivajinagar, Mahadevapura and Chickpet, the assembly constituencies at the heart of the illegal voter data collection issue in Bengaluru. With this, electoral rolls have been completed for all 28 assembly constituencies in the city, based on the special summary revision organised by the State Election Commission between November 9th and December 8th in 2022. The lists for Bengaluru were finalised by the BBMP revenue department, the agency in charge of handling election logistics within city limits. With the illegal voter data cloud still looming over election agencies, officials promised to put their best…

As the 2023 Karnataka Assembly Elections approach, thousands of booth level officers (BLOs), across the state, are going door to door, draft list in hand, to check the accuracy of electoral rolls. BLOs are government, semi-government or retired government employees, who check that electoral rolls are accurate and up to date at the level of a polling booth (also called part). This is the third and final part of a series looking deeper into the implications of the Bengaluru voter data theft controversy. Part I: Illegal voter data collection: Does it really matter?Part II: Illegal voter data collection: How can…

It has been a little over two years since the urban local body in Bengaluru had an elected body of representatives. While cases pending in Supreme Court have been cited as a reason for the delaying the BBMP elections, the absence of elected corporators at the local level has meant that MLAs have been calling the shots even for local level initiatives. Reports have tracked how the role of ward committees is being chipped away leading to lack of accountability and eventually translating to citizens losing whatever little say they had in matters pertaining to urban service delivery and civic…