Narasimharaja is a locality in Mysore. It hosts one of the constituencies of Karnataka State Legislative Assembly. Elections were first held here for this seat in 1967. Tanveer Sait is from the

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and represents Narasimharaja constituency of

Mysore Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...

, Karnataka. The constituency has been served by the Sait's family for over three decades, Sait's father Aziz Sait was a veteran congress leader and held the Narasimharaja Assembly seat six times from 1967 to 1999,After the demise of Aziz Sait in December 2001 his political legacy the Narasimharaja assembly seat led to a family feud in the Sait family as Tariq Sait grandson of Aziz Sait and nephew of Tanveer Sait campaigned for the

Janata Dal (Secular) The Janata Dal (Secular) is an Indian political party led by former prime minister of India, H. D. Deve Gowda. The party is recognized as a State Party in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh. It was formed in July 1999 by the ...

candidate Maruthi Rao Pawar in the 2002

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

assembly election against his uncle Tanveer Sait. In the 2002 By-election Sait won the Narasimharaja Assembly seat by above 10,000 votes against Maruthi Rao Pawar from the

. In the following election of 2004 Sait won the assembly seat by above 20,000 against Maruthi Rao Pawar from the

.In the 2008 assembly election Sait beat S.Nagaraju (Sandesh) of the

by about 6000 vote. Tanveer Sait is the sitting member of the

Karnataka Legislative Assembly The Karnataka Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of the six states in India where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses. The two houses ar ...

from Narasimharaja constituency as he retained the seat again in the 2013 assembly election winning against Abdul Majeed K H of the

Social Democratic Party of India The Social Democratic Party of India, popularly known as SDPI, is an Indian political party which was founded on 21 June 2009 in New Delhi. The party is considered the political wing of the banned Islamic organization Popular Front of India (P ...

by about 8370 votes. Sait won the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election from the Narasimharaja constituency defeating the

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candidate by about 18127 votes.

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