Bangalore Civic Elections

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  After BJP's Civic Poll Celebrations, a Congress Mayor for Bengaluru

  Manjunath Narayana Reddy of the Congress is Bengaluru's new Mayor. In a close contest today, he edged out the BJP's Manjunath Raju by just three votes.

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  Bengaluru Sticks With BJP, PM Tweets 'Hat-trick': 10 Developments

  In Congress-ruled Karnataka, capital Bengaluru has picked the BJP again to fix its chronic civic problems, handing the party a majority in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP, that it has controlled for the last five years.

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  Bengaluru Civic Elections Voting Ends With Dismal Turnout

  Voting for Bengaluru's municipal body known as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike or BBMP ended today with less than 50 per cent voter turnout, underscoring once again the city's apathy to polls.

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  Bengaluru Sees Low Turnout in Crucial Civic Polls

  Bengaluru is voting today to elect its civic body, amid major concerns of traffic and cleanliness faced by its residents, in a high-prestige political battle. Till 12 noon, just 11 per cent of the electorate had come out to vote.

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  The Key Issues Facing Bengaluru Ahead of Municipal Polls

  With the municipal elections due this Saturday, the residents of Bengaluru are thinking more than usual about the civic challenges faced by the city. A garden city that first turned into the country's IT capital, became a pensioner's paradise, and is now a startup town.

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  Bengaluru Civic Elections Campaign Starts Off With Accusations

  With familiar-sounding promises to clear out the garbage on streets, fix traffic jams, mend potholes and clean up filthy lakes, aspirants for the Bengaluru civic polls have jumped into the fray. Their first task at hand? Raise the offensive on opponents.

• BJP Protests State Government's Move to Trifurcate Bengaluru Civic Body

  BJP's Karnataka unit today held a day long protest in the city against the government's decision to trifurcate Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the city's civic body, and demanded that civic elections be held as per schedule.

• BJP, rebel Yeddyurappa lose big in Karnataka civic polls

  In a blow for the ruling BJP just two months before Assembly elections are held in Karnataka, the Congress has won big in the state's urban local body elections, bettering its 2007 numbers. The big flop of the election - BS Yeddyurappa.

• Karnataka urban local bodies poll today

  Karnataka on Thursday will see polling for 208 urban local bodies whose outcome is being seen as a referendum on the BJP's corruption-scarred rule in the state, ahead of assembly elections due in May.

• Decks cleared for civic polls

  The Supreme Court has cleared the decks for holding municipal elections in Bangalore.