Given that the present Rajajinagar and Mahalakshmi Layout Assembly constituencies were together as one constituency till 2008, the problems faced by the residents across the two segments are also similar: a shortage of drinking water, flooding of low-lying areas and clogged drainage pipes. In Mahalakshmi Layout, even when the two-time JDS MLA Mr. Gopalaiah defected to the BJP under “Operation …
BENGALURU: Mahalakshmi Layout has all the troubles of the city traffic congestion, poor garbage disposal, stray dogs and more with slums and the Vrishbhavathi valley adding to the woes of the people of this assembly constituency in Northwest Bengaluru. Not surprisingly, the constituency elected former legislator, K. Gopalaiah, who was with the JD both during the 2013 and 2018 assembly …