Now, Mamata is against Tata’s retail entry

After successfully halting the Tata’s Nano project, Mamata Banerjee is after Tata’s retail entry into West Bengal. She wanted to protect the interest of small retailers. It sure is a good cause but one needs to think if its the only cause. After all West Bengal is one of the first state to embrace industrialization [...]

How pro-India is Joe Biden?

Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as the vice presidential candidate to bolster his achilles heel (foreign policy). Indian media immediately dubbed Joe Biden as pro-India. Their rationale was Mr. Biden

Reliance into Mobile blogging - Big B

The obsession of Reliance ADAG with the Bachan’s continues. Just after signing a 1000 Crore deal with the Bachan family, Reliance has signed up Amitabh Bachan for mobile blogging via Big B. This is inline with twitter service but concentrated in India and works from mobiles. The feed updates are via SMS.
Some of the posts/tweets/sms [...]

The Gujjar violence

Just when BJP thought it found the magic formula to win elections in Karnataka, there is bad news awaiting in Rajasthan.  Protests were going on for the past 5 days by Gujjars. Gujjars are demanding to recognize them as Scheduled Tribe and grant reservation. Around 39 people died so far in various clashes between the police and the [...]

Yediyurappa gets key support

BJP and Yediyurappa gets key support in Karnataka from 5 independent MLA’s. This would make the tally of the BJP lead government to 115. That is 2 seats greater than a simple majority needed. This is a much needed relief for the people of Karnataka (including me). The thoughts of a stable government which looked [...]

BJP makes inroads into South India

In an unprecedented victory, BJP has won the most important southern state of Karnataka. BJP won 110(approx) seats of the 224 seats. With Congress conceding defeat it is for the BJP to form the goveryment. BS Yeduriyappa will be the Chief Ministerial candidate for BJP. He may take oath on 28th May. BJP never really [...]

The Chiranjeevi factor

Megastar as he is famously called enjoys a demi-god status in Andhra Pradesh. But, can this star power be converted to political clout? To answer this question we have to go through the humble beginings of Chiranjeevi.
Chiranjeevi’s real name is Konidella Siva Shankara Vara Prasad and is born on August 22, 1955. He has struggled [...]

Rahul Gandhi for IPL (rural)

If IPL is the billion dollar baby of Lalit Modi, Rahul Gandhi the congress MP from Amethi is the mastermind behind rural IPL. This tournament is called Rajiv Gandhi Rural Cricket Tournament and is played in and around the villages of the Amethi and Tilo. Rahul Gandhi is the standing MP of Amethi. Here are [...]

Candidates for 28 seats in Bangalore

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AC No
Constituency
Category
Congress
BJP
JD(s)

150
Yelahanka
GEN
B Chandrappa
SR Viswanath
E Krishnappa

151
K.R. Pura
GEN
A. Krishnappa
Nandish Reddy
Muniswamy

152
Byatarayanapura
GEN
Krishna Byre Gowda
Satish Reddy
C Narayanaswamy

153
Yeshvanthapura
GEN
S T Somashekar
Kum. Shobha Karandlaje
L, Panchalingappa

154
Rajarajeshwarinagar
GEN
PN Krishnamurthy
M Srinivas
Hanumantharayappa

155
Dasarahalli
GEN
K.C. Ashok
S Muniraju
Andanappa

156
Mahalakshmi Layout
GEN
NL Narendra Babu
RV Harish
K Gopalaiah

157
Malleshwaram
GEN
M.R. Seetharam
Dr. Aswath Narayan
M Shankaranna

158
Hebbal
GEN
H M Revanna
Katta Subramanay Naidu
Lokesh Gowda

159
Pulakeshinagar
SC
B Prasanna Kumar
Dr. Chikka Melurappa
R Srinivasa Murthy

160
Sarvagnanagar
GEN
K.J. George
R Shankar
Padmanabha Reddy

161
C.V. Raman Nagar
SC
K.C. [...]

Bangalore constituencies

Bangalore has a total of 28 constituencies. 4 of the 28 are reserved for SC/ST candidates. Following is the list of 28 constituencies along with their account numbers.

AC No
Constituency
Category

150.
Yelahanka
GEN

151.
K.R. Pura
GEN

152.
Byatarayanapura
GEN

153.
Yeshvanthapura
GEN

154.
Rajarajeshwarinagar
GEN

155.
Dasarahalli
GEN

156.
Mahalakshmi Layout
GEN

157.
Malleshwaram
GEN

158.
Hebbal
GEN

159.
Pulakeshinagar
SC

160.
Sarvagnanagar
GEN

161.
C.V. Raman Nagar
SC

162.
Shivajinagar
GEN

163.
Shanti Nagar
GEN

164.
Gandhi Nagar
GEN

165.
Rajaji Nagar
GEN

166.
Govindraj Nagar
GEN

167.
Vijay Nagar
GEN

168.
Chamrajpet
GEN

169.
Chickpet
GEN

170.
Basavanagudi
GEN

171.
Padmanaba Nagar
GEN

172.
B.T.M. Layout
GEN

173.
Jayanagar
GEN

174.
Mahadevapura
SC

175.
Bommanahalli
GEN

176.
Bangalore South
GEN

177.
Anekal
SC