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No poll fever in Gujarat
With just six days left, poll fever is yet to grip South Gujarat where the banners, buntings are conspicuous by their absence.
With just six days left before the Lok Sabha polls, election fever is yet to grip South Gujarat where the banners, buntings and loudspeakers are conspicuous by their absence.
The festive look generally associated with elections is absent in the industrial hubs of Vadodara and Surat, where campaigning by candidates is evoking little response and the people seem to be going about their usual day-to-day activities, a PTI correspondent on a tour of the areas writes.
In former Union Minister Kanshiram Rana's constituency of Surat, workers of the two main parties BJP and Congress were making efforts to woo the electorate.
Local BJP leaders claimed that the saffron party is set to improve its tally of 20 out of 26 seats at the hustings this time.
"Our main worry is to motivate the cadres to cash in on the situation in the absence of a strong opposition (Congress)," said a BJP worker adding while he was convinced of the voters' loyalty to the "lotus" the biggest challenge before them is to bring the predominantly middle-class electorate to the polling booths on the D-day.
