Bengaluru Central  

In Bengaluru Central, actor Prakash Raj has managed to get only 23,183 votes. He even walked out of the counting centre even before the counting was half way through.
 

In 2014, Mohan won against Arshad by a margin of 1.37 lakh votes against Congress' Rizwan Arshad. This time too, the arch-rivals have locked horns.
 

After several raids held in the residences of coalition government leaders in Karnataka, Income Tax department officials conducted raids in the residences of three Bengaluru businessmen who allegedly have connections with Bengaluru Central's Congress candidate Rizwan Arshad.

Karnataka Congress’s double standards clearly stand exposed after its Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha candidate Rizwan Arshad was seen approaching Vokkaliga community seer Nirmalanandanatha Swamy and later held pooja at a Ganesha temple. Senior Congress leaders like Mallikarjun Kharge, Siddaramaiah all have always ridiculed the believers of temple visits and about Hindu religious practices, but now their own candidate is seen doing temple and mutt run

J Alexander, former Karnataka minister, resigned from the Congress expressing his disappointment with the party. He said that Christian leaders were not given an opportunity in the Lok Sabha seat allocation. 

Prakash Raj filed his nomination from Bengaluru Central constituency as an independent candidate. The actor was caught off-guard seemed flustered as the crowd shouted pro-Modi slogans when he exited the nomination centre.

 

Senior leaders of the Congress Roshan Baig and BK Hariprasad have evinced interest to contest from the same Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha seat. While Baig took to WhatsApp promotion and hosted Muslim conventions, Hariprasad has sent out invites to the party workers to join him at a gala dinner in Bengaluru
 

Jenifar J Russell, a telecom engineer in Bengaluru, is all set to contest as an independent candidate from Bengaluru Central constituency.

If sources are to be believed, then Congress is all set to field a Hindu-Muslim candidate to take on BJP's sitting MP PC Mohan. Dinesh Gundu Rao's Muslim wife Tabu Gundu Rao may be pitted by the Congress against the BJP in Bengaluru Central.

Having been denied a Cabinet berth in the HD Kumaraswamy-led Congress-JD(S) coalition government, senior Congress leader R Roshan Baig aspires to contest the next year’s Lok Sabha election from Bengaluru Central. Baig recently hosted a Muslim convention in Bengaluru in which top Moulanas from Delhi were present. Baig is not the only aspirant, MLA Rizwan Arshad, Congress leader Saleem Ahmed are also aiming the seat.