Campaigning in Indian elections comes of e-age

Popular political websites such as that of BJP’s LK Advani are registering up to 25,000 hits every day

Next to the Gavi Gangadhara Temple in a traditional south Bangalore neighbourhood, hundreds of Congress party workers waved flags and loudspeakers attached to an auto-rickshaw blared announcements. The Congress candidate for the Bangalore South Lok Sabha seat, Krishna Byre Gowda, was on his way there. And soon enough, Gowda, a two-time Karnataka state lawmaker, arrived on the scene, straining under the weight of garlands.

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