Arvind Limbavali

In September 2022, a video of Arvind Limbavali threatening a woman political activist had gone viral. Police can be seen whisking away the lone woman activist at the behest of Arvind Limbavali. In a clear violation of established protocols, the woman was detained at the police station until late hours and was not allowed to make phone calls. The constituent had approached the elected representative to submit a petition seeking relief.[5][6][7][8] In an interview with Dighvijay News, Arvind Limbavali defended his behaviour claiming that as long as he had not raped her, the episode should not be an issue.[9][10] The use of word rape while describing the argument caused embarrassment to him.[11][9][12][13]

Renuka Limbavali, the daughter of Arvind Limbavali, was accused of misbehaving with traffic police when the police pulled over her BMW car for speeding. In the video, Renuka Limbavali can be seen threatening and intimidating officers in uniform. After the video of the episode went viral, Aravind Limbavali tendered a public apology on behalf of his daughter.[14][15][16][17][18]

In 2019, Limbavali claimed to be a victim of fake obscene video.[19][20] Later, Arvind Limbavali had accused his own party-men of foul play in the fake obscene video controversy.[21]

A private complaint was filed before the Lokayukta court against Aravind Limbavali and 10 others for alleged violation of rules to favour a private builder ‘for pecuniary gain.’ Complainant N Nagaraj alleged that Limbavali as education minister in 2009 had favoured builder DLF putting up an unauthorised construction in Hulimavu area by directing Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (city corporation) to widen the road there in violation of the Revised Master Plan, 2015.[22][23][24][25] The high court stayed proceedings against Aravind Limbavali and acquitted him in this case.[26]

An open letter questioning the MLA's support for an illegal road with in the buffer zone of Pattandur Agrahara lake, was published on change.org. The petition was signed by about 8,000 citizens. The citizens were outraged at the arrogance of Aravind Limbavali at the meeting with petitioners.[27][28]

In January 2023, a businessman committed suicide by naming Aravind Limbavali as one of the persons who abetted his suicide.[29][30] As part of investigation, the police have filed a FIR report against Aravind Limbavali.[31] Following the episode, the opposition parties have called for his arrest.[32][33] The Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's resignation was also sought in the aftermath of the episode.[34] While claiming to be innocent, Aravind Limbavali claimed that he knew the suicide victim since the later was a worker of a political worker.[35]

In a shocker to residents of Whitefield, Aravind Limbavali was accused of unilaterally changing Metro Train route alignment, adding and deleting metro stations [36]

In a controversial move, Aravind Limbavali pulled up his own party Bharatiya Janata Party for its failure to maintain road infrastructure in Bengaluru city.[37]

Aravind Limbavali was is in charge of the operation to corral 19 Congress legislators from Madhya Pradesh in a resort in Bengaluru, while Jyotiraditya Scindia carried out his coup against Kamal Nath government. The Deccan Chronicle wrote that '"Limbavali, 53, is so skillful at managing horsetrading manouevres that the media here has been finding it difficult to track down exact the whereabouts of the herd of 19 legislators" [38]