evidence: Bengaluru – the IT capital of India will go to polls to elect its three MPs on April 26, along with 11 other constituencies in the South Karnataka region, while the polling in the remaining 14 seats in North Karnataka will be held on May 7. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which conceded defeat in the Assembly elections exactly a year back, is confident of retaining all three seats in the state capital-- Bangalore South, Central and North -- as the city has always preferred the saffron party to any other in the Lok Sabha elections for two decades now, though denying a second consecutive term to any party in the state Assembly. [...] In Bangalore Central, BJP’s three-time MP PC Mohan (60) will be facing a fresh face – Mansoor Ali Khan, 51, an educationist. The Congress holds five of the eight Assembly segments, where four have a sizeable minority population. Two of the three segments held by the BJP are reserved for the scheduled caste. Interestingly, Mohan, an OBC leader has managed to win despite the constituency having a large number of Ahinda (Muslim, Dalit and backward class) voters who have traditionally backed the Congress, besides Tamil and Telugu-speaking migrants. Last time, Mohan had beaten Congress’ Rizwan Arshad by 70,968 votes. This time, Mohan is once again pinning his hopes on the Modi government’s achievement in urban infrastructure development and the PM's appeal among the educated voters.