Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency
T. Madiah Gowda, freedom fighter, a lawyer by profession won in 1st lok sabha election from Bangalore south constituency.Post Emergency and reorganization of constituencies across the country, this Lok Sabha seat came into existence as Bangalore South in 1977.[12] He defeated the incumbent MP R. Gundu Rao and thus BJP won the elections for the 1st time in Bangalore South.Till the rise of Ananth Kumar the seat was won by legal luminaries, freedom fighters, Chief Minister and senior Economists.Ananth Kumar succumbed to cancer in 2018 during the course of the 16th Lok Sabha,[3] and in 2019, BJP was forced to field a new face due to his untimely death.