By Faye D’Souza, CNBC-TV18

Bangalore's failing infrastructure is top of mind for all its citizens. Political parties hoping to win their votes are not leaving it out of their list of election promises. Developing infrastructure and solving the traffic problems of the city have gained as much mind space as colour TV's and loan waivers.

Bangalore needs a new urban plan for development. That’s exactly what Karnataka's political parties are promising to deliver in the run up to Assembly elections in the state.

"We would like to re-plan the whole of Bangalore or the metropolitan area. Primacy will be give to infrastructure, roads, drinking water, electricity public amenities and the greenery will be retained,” said VS Acharya, BJP, Leader.

BJP also wants to improve the current bane of Bangalore, the road to the new airport. Competition is not far behind. The Congress party, in its manifesto, has promised the very poor free colour TV’s and 25 kg of rice a month at Rs 2 per kg. But it has not left out development in Bangalore, the biggest selling point for former CM SM Krishna. The party's manifesto includes the infrastructure perspective of the next 20-30 years for Bangalore and the state.

"We will help farmers, students, backward classes, minorities, women and create better infrastructure in Bangalore and other places,” said Mallikarjun Kharge, Karnataka Congress President.

The Janata Dal on the other hand plans to improve infrastructure, provide proper housing and basic amenities for the city's urban poor, apart from widening its roads.

Post delimitation, the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike and the Bangalore urban district put together now 28 constituencies as opposed to the 16 constituencies earlier; that’s 66 lakh voters. It’s no wonder then that none of the political parties want to leave the problem of the city out.