bengaluru karnataka has had several politicians winning multiple times but three former chief ministers hd deve gowda s bangarappa and bs yediyurappa and their home constituencies stand out amid criticism of dynasty politics reason holenarasipura soraba and shikaripura have seldom voted for any other candidate and parties dont matter soraba was formed in 1967 and bangarappa who represented it for the very first time won seven consecutive terms on six different party tickets post bangarappa his sons have held the seat in the 12 elections since 1967 the family failed to retain the seat only once when bjps haratalu halappa won in 2008 credit must go to functionaries before my father like shanthaveri gopalagowda and konandur lingappa who laid the foundation for socialist constituencies kumar bangarappa son of bangarappa and incumbent mla from soraba said their fight was against poverty and to give people political voice this foundation of selfless service helped many including my father so the feeling that loyalty is only for the bangarappa family is wrong incidentally bangarappas sons have been in rival camps and even contested against each other kumar added many think this loyalty is to our family because weve won continuously but it is a result of networking and the undercurrent socialist movement it is more than blood relationship and is driven by political ideology working for freedom from poverty landlessness and illiteracy in holenarasipura formed in 1957 gowda won his first elections as an independent in 1962 and later multiple terms on three party tickets indian national congress organisation janata party and jds his son hd revanna now represents the seat in 13 elections since 1962 gowda won the first six elections two as an independent and four through parties before losing to congress g puttaswamy gowda in 1989 post that revanna has won five of six elections he lost in 1999 when congress a doddegowda emerged victorious my father has not been casteist he relentlessly worked for all the people even before he was first elected as an independent in 1962 revanna said until 1972 our constituency did not even have roads and was a backward seat he gowda was himself a common man and never lost connection with people we are continuing on the path he laid yediyurappa has woven a similar tale in shikaripura a seat formed only in 1978 when congress won in nine elections between 1983 and 2018 yediyurappa won eight times barring 1999 when he lost to congress mahalingappa while son by raghavendra won a bypoll in 2014 after yediyurappa vacated the seat to contest lok sabha polls by vijayendra his other son is the heir apparent for the seat im not saying this as yediyurappas son but irrespective of caste or religion everyone has benefited during my fathers tenure across shivamogga said vijayendra since he represents the constituency shikaripura has benefited more from being among the most backward the constituency is now rated among the most developed there are multiple reasons for