This will be the sixth Lok Sabha election for H D Kumaraswamy, whose first win was in the 1996 Lok Sabha polls from the erstwhile Kanakapura constituency.
He purchased food and medical kits for every family, bought crops and vegetables from farmers and distributed them freely, wore a PPE kit to bury the dead during Covid, recalled D.K. Shivakumar about DK Suresh s services in the constituency
The Bengaluru Rural seat is poised for a unique contest between two candidates sharing the same name, Dr. CN Manjunath. One of them, a renowned cardiologist, successfully developed the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences & Research into one of Asia s largest heart hospitals. He is contesting as a BJP candidate against DK Suresh, the sole Congress winner in Karnataka s 2019 LS polls.