Rajajinagar

Rajajinagar is a residential neighborhood and commercial hub in the west of Bangalore. It is one of the zones of BBMP. It is bordered by Basaveshwaranagar, Malleshwaram, Mahalakshmi Layout, Vijayanagara and Rajajinagar Industrial Suburb.

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Neighborhood
(L–R, from top) World Trade Center within Brigade Gateway, ISKCON Temple, LuLu Hypermarket, Rajajinagar metro station
Rajajinagar Location within Bengaluru
Coordinates: 12.97°N 77.57°E / 12.97; 77.57
Country	India
State	Karnataka
City	Bangalore
Government
• MLA	S. Suresh Kumar, BJP
Languages
• Official	Kannada
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	560010,560021,560044
Vehicle registration	KA-02

Inaugurated by Maharaja's of Mysuru Jayachamaraja Wadiyar, Rajajinagar Pillar on 3 July 1949. 70th birthday to C Rajagopalachari.

Named after statesman C. Rajagopalachari, a plaque in the Rajajinagar pillar indicates that 1,000 acres of land given for the locality was divided into industrial and housing areas. The former consisted of 140 acres for textiles, 220 acres for machinery, 100 acres for chemical plants and 40 acres for the food sector. About 4,000 housing plots were created in the remaining 500 acres. Rajajinagar was built at an estimated cost of Rs 50 lakh.

Politics

BJP and INC are major players in Rajajinagar area. S. Suresh Kumar is the incumbent and 6 time MLA from Rajaji Nagar Assembly constituency

List of MLAs from Rajajinagar

Year	Member	Party
Until 1977: Constituency did not exist
1978	Mallur Ananda Rao		Janata Party
1983	M. S. Krishnan		Communist Party of India
1985
1989	K. Lakkanna		Indian National Congress
1994	S. Suresh Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
1999
2004	N. L. Narendra Babu		Indian National Congress
2008	S. Suresh Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2013
2018
2023