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Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D.K.Shivakumar spent two entire days campaigning in Bengaluru, covering almost all corners of Indias IT capital in the hope to regain some lost ground from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
Bangalore North, Bangalore South, Bangalore Central have remained the fortress of the BJP.Data from the Election Commision show that the Congress last won in Bangalore North (pre-delimitation) in 1999 when late C.K.Jaffer Shariff was the candidate...
The exception is Bangalore Rural (formerly Kanakapura), which has been with the Congress since 2014...
Ever since the turn of the century and the IT boom, the BJP has got the better of the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular), or JD(S), in the elections to Lok Sabha, assembly and even the municipal corporation (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike), retaining a firm grip over the citys administration and its votes...
The BJP has similar challenges in other seats as well, Bengaluru-based political analyst Sandeep Shastri said.. P.C.Mohan is contesting for the fourth time from Bangalore Central.JD(S) patriarch H.D.Deve Gowdas son-in-law C.N.Manjunath is contesting on a BJP ticket in Bengaluru Rural...
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