Compare Bangalore Rural candidates before voting!

by April 15, 2014 Governance
Bangalore South and Rajarajeshwari Nagar are part of Bangalore Rural constituency. Hence here's the profile of the candidates for you!

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 the state. Click for ADR data.
  • 9845116855
  • Unsuccessfully contested from Bangalore South for Assembly elections

Muniraju Gowda P – BJP

Ravi Krishna Reddy – AAP

Parliamentary constituencies were delimited in 2008 under the provision of the Delimitation Act 2002 and through the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order 2008, where number of seats allotted to each state and the number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is stated.

In Bangalore, during this exercise, some Assembly constituencies of the city were moved under Bangalore Rural and Chikballapur Parliamentary constituencies.

Assembly constituencies and wards from Bangalire Urban limit falling under this constituency:

Bangalore South Rajarajeshwarinagar
184-Uttarahalli
185-Yelachenahalli
191-Singasandra
192-Begur
194-Gottigere
195-Konanakunte
196-Anjanapura
197-Vasanthapura		 16-Jalahalli
17-J.P.Park
37-Yeshwanthpura
38-H.M.T
42-Lakshmidevinagar
69-Laggere
73-Kottegepalya
129-Jnanabharathi
160-Rajarajeshwarinagar
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