BENGALURU: There is a Guava Garden Street, a Modi Garden Road and a Sannappa Garden Road in SK Garden ward, all below Pulakeshinagar meeting constituency. But the ward has no garden in any respect. In reality, SK Garden has change into an euphemism for a slum.
"Our locality is only 4-5 km from Vidhana Soudha, yet it looks like a slum," says Syed Munawar, a resident of SK Garden. Rueing that the slum tag has simplest made it tough to avail bank loans, he says, "I was denied vehicle and home loans without assigning any reason."
The plight of the constituents is the last thing at the thoughts of political parties, if one goes via the way they have readily authorised turncoats from each and every different's camp. R Akhanda Srinivas Murthy, who was elected on a JD(S) ticket in 2013, is seeking re-election as a Congress candidate. B Prasanna Kumar, who had lost to Murthy as a Congress candidate, is the JD(S) nominee now.
The two applicants regardless that need to wait until May 15 to know whether or not their voters too have modified their birthday party loyalties.
Reserved for SCs, Pulakeshinagar is a mix of posh localities like Davis Road and Benson Town and under-developed localities of Sagayapuram, DJ Halli, S K Garden and Kaval Byrasandra. Residents of less-developed wallet admit that there has been improvement in the way things work. "We used to get water once a week a couple of years ago and now we get it twice a week. That itself is a huge relief," says Nasruall Shariff, 64, who has been residing in S K Garden since delivery.
Over 1.3 lakh non secular minority votes, just about 65,000 SC/ ST votes and 30,000 linguistic minority (largely Tamil) votes play a decisive position.
While Murthy is confident that his good work and the new birthday party tag will deliver him success this time too, Prasanna Kumar is playing up the betrayal card, mentioning how the Congress ditched him and embraced his rival. "No work has happened in the constituency. All developmental works stopped after I lost the last election. Sympathy is working in my favour this time," says Prasanna.
Making it transparent that the struggle is between him and Murthy, Prasanna says given his long affiliation with Congress and its hand symbol, he's laying stress at the voters to keep in mind that he's now a JD(S) candidate. "I am asking my voters to remember my serial number 2 and vote for me," he says. BJP has fielded Susheela Devaraj as its candidate.
"Our locality is only 4-5 km from Vidhana Soudha, yet it looks like a slum," says Syed Munawar, a resident of SK Garden. Rueing that the slum tag has simplest made it tough to avail bank loans, he says, "I was denied vehicle and home loans without assigning any reason."
The plight of the constituents is the last thing at the thoughts of political parties, if one goes via the way they have readily authorised turncoats from each and every different's camp. R Akhanda Srinivas Murthy, who was elected on a JD(S) ticket in 2013, is seeking re-election as a Congress candidate. B Prasanna Kumar, who had lost to Murthy as a Congress candidate, is the JD(S) nominee now.
The two applicants regardless that need to wait until May 15 to know whether or not their voters too have modified their birthday party loyalties.
Reserved for SCs, Pulakeshinagar is a mix of posh localities like Davis Road and Benson Town and under-developed localities of Sagayapuram, DJ Halli, S K Garden and Kaval Byrasandra. Residents of less-developed wallet admit that there has been improvement in the way things work. "We used to get water once a week a couple of years ago and now we get it twice a week. That itself is a huge relief," says Nasruall Shariff, 64, who has been residing in S K Garden since delivery.
Over 1.3 lakh non secular minority votes, just about 65,000 SC/ ST votes and 30,000 linguistic minority (largely Tamil) votes play a decisive position.
While Murthy is confident that his good work and the new birthday party tag will deliver him success this time too, Prasanna Kumar is playing up the betrayal card, mentioning how the Congress ditched him and embraced his rival. "No work has happened in the constituency. All developmental works stopped after I lost the last election. Sympathy is working in my favour this time," says Prasanna.
Making it transparent that the struggle is between him and Murthy, Prasanna says given his long affiliation with Congress and its hand symbol, he's laying stress at the voters to keep in mind that he's now a JD(S) candidate. "I am asking my voters to remember my serial number 2 and vote for me," he says. BJP has fielded Susheela Devaraj as its candidate.
Turncoats hope voters too have crossed the floor
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May 04, 2018
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