The BJP and the Congress intensified their campaigns for the Karnataka assembly polls with just two days to go for the voting.

It's a well-known fact that the urban voters in Bengaluru have mattered little to politicians, despite the city contributing to 70% of the state's revenue.

The reason was simple — Bengaluru's vote bank was negligible in size. However, that has now changed.

After 2008, outlying villages and semi-urban areas have been merged with the core city, scaling it up from 100 civic wards to 198 wards — making this group of voters hard to ignore.

Bengaluru has a diverse mix of voters — slum dwellers, educated middle class, migrant workers and working professionals.

While the poor vote, the problem has been with the educated middle class.

Manisha Natarajan caught up with experts to find whether Bengaluru's educated middle class will come out to vote in adequate numbers this year?

Do they care enough for the city? What are the issues most important to the citizens of Bengaluru? The IT capital is gasping for breath on several fronts and will Bangaloreans vote for the betterment of the city, over caste and creed?