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K.R. Puram has the largest number of voters

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BANGALORE: K.R. Puram is a new Assembly constituency in the Greater Bangalore region and it has the largest number of voters among the 21 constituencies. Carved out from the erstwhile Varthur Assembly constituency (which no longer exists) and a few parts of Hoskote Assembly constituency, it has predominantly urban characteristics.

All wards of the erstwhile K.R. Puram City Municipal Council, and wards 3 to 11 of Mahadevapura City Municipal Council, which includes Sanna Thimmanahalli, Medahalli, Bhattrahalli, K.R. Puram, Ramamurthy Nagar, Doorvaninagar, Chikkabasavanapura, Devasandra, Vijnanapura, A. Narayanapura, Singayyanapalya, Annayyanapalya, Mahadevpura, Benniganahalli, Vibhuthipura and Vimanapura.

As many as 10 villages, K. Narayanapura, Kottanur, N. Nagenahalli, Kyalasanahalli, Geddalahalli, Horamavu Agara, K. Channasandra, Kalkere, Horamavu and Chalkere, that were included within the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike limits when the Greater Bangalore area was formed, are also part of this constituency.

Six polling booths from Bhattrahalli and Shegehalli of Hoskote Assembly constituency have been included in this segment, which is part of Bangalore North Parliamentary constituency. HAL Airport and ITI Colony are prominent land marks of this new constituency.

Rajarajeshwarinagar

This constituency, comprising Peenya Industrial Area and Bangalore University, has been formed mainly by carving out many areas of erstwhile Uttarahalli Assembly constituency and some portions of Rajajinagar, Yelahanka and Malleswaram constituencies.

Jalahalli, Siddarthnagar, Bahubalinagar, Laggere, Jai Bhuvaneshwarinagar, Sunkadakatte, Srigandada Kavalu, Hoskere Halli, BEML Layout 3rd stage are some prominent areas of Uttarahalli constituency that have been moved to this constituency.

Goraguntepalya area (nine polling booths) of Rajajinagar constituency, Poornapura area (four polling booths) of Yelahanka, and Muthyalanagar, Mohan Kumar Nagar, B.K. Nagar, Gokula Extension 1st Stage 1st Phase, parts of Yeshwantpur, and of Malleswaram constituency are included in this constituency.

Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s HMT, Yeshwantpur and Peenya Industrial Area wards; erstwhile Pattanagere City Municipal Council’s wards 1 to 13, 16 to 18, 20 and 23 to 27; and erstwhile Dasarahalli City Municipal Council’s wards 30 to 32, and 26, have been accommodated in this segment during delimitation. Jnanabharathi, Rajarajeshwarinagar, Peenya and Yeshwanthpur Industrial Areas are prominent land marks.

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