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Bangalore Rural - Candidates D K Suresh - INC (incumbent MP) Age – 47 Education – PUC Businessman, brother of state minister D K Shivakumar Has 7 Cases including encroachment of forest land Assets – Rs 85.73 Crores. Click for ADR data. 9845029142 / dksuresh18@gmail.com Has set 100 RO water plants in the constituency. Won in bypolls held in Bangalore Rural last year Short profile: Click here Scams: Granite scam, illegal site,Complaint by a citizen: Click here R Prabhakar Reddy - JD(S) Age – 43 Education - BSc Realtor. Assets – 224 Crores, making him the second richest candidate in…

You are going to vote for a candidate as your MP for the next five years; this might not be a one-minute decision if you have an open mind and are willing to compare the candidates. This compilation is meant to help get all the info for your own comparison in one place, so that you spend less time searching. Bangalore North has around 22 lakh voters and covers the assembly constituency areas of Bytarayanapura, Dasarahalli, Hebbal, K.R.Puram, Mahalakshmi Layout, Malleshwaram, Pulakeshinagar and Yeshwanthpur. Affidavit comparisons: No criminal cases against major candidates in Bangalore North ADR affidavit analysis: Click here…

The JD(S) manifesto starts off with a note that says that JD(S)’ contributions to the city of Bengaluru have not been small and for the next 5 pages goes on to enlist the contributions that H D Deve Gowda and H D Kumaraswamy have made. Only then does it move on to its plans for the city.  The key points in the manifesto are as follows: Tackling of Corruption in Governance: Lokayukta, land transactions to be made transparent, change in licensing system, citizen involvement in supervising governance Creation of Metropolitan Planning Committee: To manage Bangalore and regulate the growth of…

Five-time MP from Bangalore South has an overall performance score of 6.7 against the national average of 7.5. Old promises and a status check Last time around before the electorate voted him in for the 5th time many promises were made. His priorities according to his responses to Smart Vote: * Priorities of your constituency? World class public transport system; dedicated power generation and distribution system; augmentation of drinking water supply; clean, green environment; revamping of entire drainage system; rejuvenating three lost rivers of Bangalore * How do you plan to address these issues in Parliament? Already pushed circular railway…

This is for those who are curious to know what the MPs of Bengaluru did in Parliament. Asking questions is the privilege of an MP, which could be used to obtain useful information by the government. One of the main duties of an MP towards his/her constituency is to participate in debates and ask questions, of relevance to that MPs constituency, state and sometimes from a national point of view. The job of an effective opposition is to make sure that the government does it’s job and in this regard, questions are are effective tool. Questions are mainly of two…

Bangalore North constituency - the biggest parliamentary constituency in Karnataka - is most likely to get a law graduate as its lawmaker this time - because three prominent political parties have fielded law graduates as their candidates here. And all of them are ‘clean’ with no pending cases. However, the similarity ends right here. The battle ground has a former CM with less than a year in office, a former MP of the same constituency but from a different party, a former law professor gearing up for his debut in politics, and a former police officer with a considerable stint…

As always, Bangalore South constituency is garnering much curiosity because of the interesting candidates contesting the elections. While the constituency hosts the richest candidate in India, it also has the sitting Member of Parliament who claims to be poorer than his wife. It also has the lone woman candidate for entire Bangalore. The constituency started hitting national headlines when the bigwigs like IT czar and back bone of Aadhaar scheme Nandan Nilekani and five-time MP Ananth Kumar were pitted against each other. And never to forget the dark horse in this fray, child rights activist Nina P Nayak. All the…

The receding rains and the advent of summer is the time when the lush green landscape in Bangalore turns to crisp brown. Rain-fed lakes are just about holding out, trying hard not to become parched playgrounds. This summer-time drying kills off aquatic weeds and gives fresh life to the lakes before the next rains. Lake care-takers get an opportunity to attend to the lake beds, repair silt traps, clear out water inlets, and do other things that need to be done before the onset of the next monsoon. The grass, weeds and many of the plants on lake revetments, dry…

Personal Info | Assets & Liabilities | Positions Held | Performance | Local Issues | Controversy Count | MPLAD Funds D B Chandre Gowda is a veteran politician who was elected to Lok Sabha from Bangalore North Constituency in 2009 elections. Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency comprises of Yeshwantpura, Dasarahalli, Mahalakshmi Layout, Malleshwaram, Hebbal, Pulakeshinagar, Byatarayanapura and K.R Puram assembly constituencies. In 2009, as a BJP candidate, he saw off competition from his nearest rival, C K Jaffer Sharief (INC). Chandre Gowda secured 45% of the votes as opposed to 39% by Sharief. Pic:http://www.dbchandregowda.in Profile of D B Chandre Gowda Name: D.B. Chandre Gowda Age: 77 Date of Birth: 26 August…

Even after receiving funds amounting to Rs.126.79 crore, Super Speciality Hospital of Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI) does not have necessary equipment for its smooth functioning. What little equipment purchased has been gathering dust in stores, unused and useless. This was what the Comptroller Auditor General of India (CAG) found out while auditing the books of BMRCI. Funds for the Super Speciality Hospital cum college were floated under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). The CAG audit was conducted between March-May 2013. While scrutinising Medical Education Department records, CAG inspected the establishment of BMCRI which was supposed to…