Love it or loathe it, the Vidhana Soudha is Bangalore’s signature building.
The five-storeyed, 500,000 square feet structure was built in four years flat.
And, although Karnataka first chief minister K.C. Reddy kicked it off, it was his successor, Kengal Hanumanthaiah, who is widely credited with its “redesign and speedy construction”. Work began in 1952 and ended in 1956.
Total cost: variously estimated between Rs 1.5 crore and Rs 2 crore.
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The Kannada newspaper Praja Vani has a report today on the expenses incurred by the Congress government of Siddaramaiah to celebrate the 60 years of the Vidhana Soudha.
The news story is mainly intended to convey the profligacy of the state government, and so far Rs 9.12 crore has been total cost to the exchequer.
Taking a lion’s share of the event is the Hyderabad-based event manager DNA Entertainment Network: Rs 5.54 crore.
Guess who set up DNA?
Kengal Hanumanthaiah’s grandson, T. Venkat Vardhan.
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Photograph: courtesy Wikipedia
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churumuri 
Real tribute to legal.
Regards Gopinath 582654
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Virtues of grandfather not visited upon grandson. Let’s be happy that the Chief Minister did not agree to spend thirty crore on the event as the Speaker of the Assembly wanted to.
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One interesting nugget … people of a certain vintage may recall. way back in 1983 or so, this person or his sibling recreated a hollywood inspired shoot out purely for the kicks. real gun, chase in a car and all. nobody was injured. however, that incident became rather famous at Gandhinagar higher secondary school in seshadripuram where i studied and this person was an ex alumni of that school. Could not resist sharing this trivia
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