Padmanabhanagar: Difference between revisions

'''Padmanabhanagar''' is a residential locality in [[Bangalore]], [[India]], covering an area of 1.68&nbsp;km²<ref>{{cite web|title=BBMP Councillors|url=http://bbmp.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=569&Itemid=205|publisher=[[Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike]]|access-date=11 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704231603/http://bbmp.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=569&Itemid=205|archive-date=4 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> It's one of the [[Bruhat_Bengaluru_Mahanagara_Palike#Zones|zones]] of [[Bruhat_Bengaluru_Mahanagara_Palike|BBMP]]. Padmanabhanagar has a very famous park called Lakshmikanta Park. This park is to be noted for housing Lakshmi Kantha temple. It was looked after by residents association, in 2018 the corporator allotted funds and developed it further. The park was eyed for its medicinal trees and was sanctioned to be cut down completely and set up a landscaped area but the senior citizens of the locality who nurtured the park protested and stopped it. It is surrounded by [[Kumaraswamy Layout]], [[Gowdanapalya]], Chennamanakere, Kathriguppe, Kadirenahalli, [[Uttarahalli]] and Chikkakalasandra.

It is a constituency in the [[Government of Karnataka|Karnataka legislative assembly]]. The assembly constituency has several areas surrounding Padmanabhanagara like Kumaraswamy Layout, Yediyur, Tyagarajanagara, Banashankari 2nd stage, Yarab Nagara, parts of Banashankari temple ward, Jayanagara 6th/7th/8th blocks, Shastri Nagara. The constituency is currently represented by Shri R Ashoka (Bharathiya Janata Party). Padmanabhanagara is also a ward constituency in BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike ward No. 182) which is currently represented by Smt. L Shobha Anjanappa of BJP (Bharathiya Janata Party).