The Information Technology (IT) corridor of the city, spread over Mahadevapura and K.R. Puram Assembly constituencies, were in the headlines for the wrong reasons recently.
Many pockets of these constituencies were flooded during heavy rains in 2022, drawing the ire of voters. So much so that the Bharatiya Janata Party denied ticket to its incumbent MLA in Mahadevapura, Arvind Limbavali, who won thrice since 2008, and instead fielded his wife. He is the only incumbent MLA from the city the BJP denied a ticket to.
While citizens demand preventive measures to tackle flooding and overflowing lakes, floods dominate the discourse during these elections. Million Voters Rising, a citizen’s manifesto for Mahadevapura, for instance, diagnoses the problem as a local governance deficit and demands a separate municipal body for Mahadevapura.
