Summer Heat and Election Heat in Tandem
SIRSA NEWS ( www.SirsaNews.com )
13 May, 2010
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With Electorate all set to go for Municipal Elections on 20th May, the political din is now on a high not with standing the exceptionally high May temperatures this week, even while the Mercury is expected to sour higher in the coming ten days.
The MC Elections are confined to cities and towns where most of the candidates who are not accustomed to taking the heat are out of their comfy dwellings to woo the voters. Unlike Rural voters where most of the voters are accessible at certain times of the day like in the early morning or evenings, the urban voter plays truant with the candidates, and the candidates are having tough time for even one time meet with their prospective voter. So they are out right from early morning and try to outreach the voter till late in the night. Temperatures reaching as high as 45 deg Celsius and expected to touch almost 48 degrees before the elections is no deterrent to even high profile candidates who mostly remain confined to Air-conditioned homes or office dwellings normally.
In several wards out of the 31 wards of Sirsa city, the going is tough as mostly the contest is 3 cornered with two factions of Congress not uniting against INLD, mostly Urban voters don’t have much an inclination towards INLD but the clear factionalism in Congress can be of advantage to INLD in certain wards where INLD has fielded strong and popular candidates. In several wards out of the 31 wards of Sirsa city, the going is tough as mostly the contest is 3 cornered with two factions of Congress not uniting against INLD, mostly urban voters don’t have much an inclination towards INLD, as it is not the ruling party at this time, but the clear factionalism in Congress can be of sure advantage to INLD in certain wards where INLD has fielded strong and popular candidates. While in some wards the contest is two cornered only despite several candidates. Political heavyweights are simply avoiding in involving themselves in electioneering at least directly, and the candidates are left to fend for themselves.
The Voter is maintaining a studied silence, keenly meets every candidate and probably shall make up a mind close to the Election Day.
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