It’s not only BJP ministers R Ashoka and V Somanna who will contest the May 10 elections from new constituencies, away from their home districts. Several other political greenhorns will make their debut in electoral politics in constituencies that are from their native places.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/several-candidates-are-fighting-karnataka-assembly-polls-in-unfamiliar-territory/articleshow/99600809.cms