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All the three major political parties are working hard to get their bearings right before the voters press on the three buttons on Feb 24.2018. The scene there is unprecedented as never before a bye- poll had witnessed such a feverish electoral soap opera taking the poll politics to unacceptable limits. By D N Singh
All the three major political parties are working hard to get their bearings right before the voters press on the three buttons on Feb 24.2018. The scene there is unprecedented as never before a bye-poll had witnessed such a feverish electoral soap opera taking the poll politics to unacceptable limits.
Roads less but the sky above Bijepur is laced with helicopters ferrying star leaders from mainly BJD and BJP. These two, in fact, are the most hyped contenders when leaders from both sides clamp their teeth into each vestige of their fingernails till people use their fingers on the day of polling.
BJD chief Naveen Patnaik has pitched the tent at Bargarh, for a two day whistle-stop campaign demonstrating the seriousness he has in his mind to win the seat somehow.
For the BJP besides the two union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Juel Oram, though ubiquitous by their presence in Odisha for last two years, union minister Smriti Irani has air- dashed today to counter Naveen who is the only star BJD has on the field. Reportedly, few more BJP leaders are to come for the campaign.
The BJP offers a combo of glamour and politics. Central leaders apart, a battery of Odia cine stars suddenly paratrooping into the saffron regiment as crowd pullers. Which obviously indicates at a yearning trying to recapture the momentum that enabled the BJP to win in six segments of the seven in last rural polls.
The Congress, on the other hand, while mourning the loss of its sitting MLA, Subal Sahoo, making a bid to recatch the fading image of its own amidst the high voltage drama by the two rivals by fielding a son of the soil.
Regardless of the results on Feb 28 today it is impossible to think of the time either in last rural polls or in 2014 quite in the same way in the light of the changing political ethics where other than a candidate`s image, money and other large play an astonishing influence on the pattern of voting.
One may wonder whether the electoral hyperactivity in Bijepur has exceeded it`s ethical boundaries.
Someone throwing a shoe at the chief minister Naveen Patnaik while campaigning at a place called Kumbhari, emulating yet another low level pattern of a design to darken one`s prospects! Does it help? People are the best judges.
The scenario can be briefly summarised. That the voter is caught in a whirlwind of alleged break of rules, conducts and the routine act of political falsifiers intending to capture the seat. It will continue to alarm the genuine voters only.
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