The state Congress has written to Sitharaman, asking her to protect the interests of the state by retaining the exhibition in Bengaluru as she was a Rajya Sabha member from the state.
Faced with falling residential demand, home buyers are being wooed with cars, fitouts, parking discounts. People familiar with the property market say this initiative, being led mainly by property marketing companies and a few investors or speculators, is unhealthy. They are doing this as they have put their money into properties at overheated locations and are now desperate to exit.