Constituencies fall silent as campaign ends
Political bigwigs in the state have finally fallen silent, though for a short period, as the gruelling campaign for bypolls to Nellore Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly constituencies ended at the stroke of 5 pm on Sunday. With the stakes high the for main contenders, the Congress, the TD and the YSRC, the electorate witnessed unpre-cedented campaigning. In a departure from the norm, the campaign stretched for nearly 50 days, ever since the EC decided to hold the bypolls and even before the issue of notification.
The bypolls gained more significance not only with the emergence of YSRC as a strong force but with the possibility of political turmoil the state was likely to witness after the results. The parties’ top brass, including Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, TD chief N. Chandrababu Naidu and YSRC chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and in his absence, his mother Y.S. Vijayalakshmi, shouldered the responsibility of campaigning. The entire campaign had become Jagan-centric with rivals lashing out at his alleged corruption while the Jagan camp took the sentimental route, highlighting the conspiracy theory behind YSR’s death and the “vendetta politics of the Congress.”
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