Behind renaming of ‘Gabbar town’ Ramanagara, a decades-old feud between two Vokkaliga heavyweights

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Bengaluru:The Karnataka cabinets decision to rename Ramanagara district as Bengaluru South is part of undoing the political legacy of H.D. Deve Gowda, and creating that of another prominent Vokkaliga leader, D.K. Shivakumar, say people aware of the developments...

D. Deve Gowda, his son and former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy, and their party Janata Dal (Secular) in the Old Mysuru region, they added...

Large cities across India have expanded, transforming agricultural land on the outskirts into real-estate havens.So is the case with Ramanagara and other regions surrounding Bengaluru, where politics, in a big way, revolves around the two powerhouses of Karnataka politics...

In a comeback in 2004, H.D. Kumaraswamy won from the Ramanagara assembly seat, where his family remained in power till the state elections last year when Congresss H.A. Iqbal Hussain defeated Nikhil...

The people of the district are conflicted over the decision to rename Ramanagara as it would entail the change of addresses, getting new documents, voter lists, and revenue papers made, and having to travel 50 kilometres to Bengaluru city, which will become the regions headquarters...

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