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Krishnarajapura
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- Settlement.name
- Krishnarajapuram
- Settlement.other_name
- Krishnarajapura
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Suburb
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Cable-Bridge over Krishnarajapuram Railway station.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A straight view of the hanging bridge built on the National Highway 75, right over the Krishnarajapuram Railway station
- Settlement.map_caption
- Krishnarajapuram
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Bangalore
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Krishnarajapuram
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- India
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Karnataka
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bengaluru Urban
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Metro
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Bangalore
- Settlement.founder
- Mummadi Krishna Raja Wodeyar
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- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bengaluru district
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- K.r.puram hanging bridge.jpg
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Krishnarajapuram (also spelled as Krishnarajapura or Krishnaraja Pura and often abbreviated as KR Puram or KR Pura) is an eastern suburb of Bangalore, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is one of the zones of BBMP. It is from Bangalore City railway station. The Old Madras Road passes through this locality. A lake called 'Vengayyana Lake' is in the heart of this area. The Yele Mallappa Shetty Lake near Medahalli, situated just outside the eastern limits of KR Puram, is one of the largest lakes in Bangalore.
Krishnarajapuram is also the headquarters of the Bangalore East taluk and houses certain central and state government offices. It is also a Karnataka Legislative Assembly constituency. B A Basvaraja of the Bharatiya Janata Party was elected as the Member of Legislative assembly from this constituency in the 2013 Karnataka Assembly election, and re-elected in 2018. The area is also a part of the Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Krishnarajapura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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