Delhi polls: BJP booming but only Sheila shoots for Congress

New Delhi: At a time when the BJP national leadership is all set to raise the pitch in its campaign with prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi going on a rally blitzkrieg, a visibly jittery Congress -- still to recover from the low turnout at the Rahul Gandhi rally less than a fortnight ago -- is sticking to localized corner and public meetings for the last lap.

The Congress campaign has put to test 15 years of Sheila Dikshit in power - she is the party's lead campaigner for a fourth term. The constituencies being wooed by the CM in a last-ditch attempt are those where the Congress is caught in a tough battle with opponents - like in Gokulpuri in northeast and Kirari in northwest. The national leadership of the Congress has been largely missing from the rallies and public meetings though Election Commission has a list of at least 40 names, including that of the PM, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and many cabinet ministers who would have campaigned.

The news of the sudden cancellation of a much-anticipated rally scheduled for Saturday where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was to set the pace confirms the nervousness within the Congress which is caught between anti-incumbency and aggressive campaigning by rivals BJP and new entrant AAP.
Unlike the BJP's aggressive stance with rallies and public meetings lined up every hour, most of the Congress campaign is localized with area MLAs and candidates claiming to be taking the traditional route of padyatras and corner meetings in residential clusters, parks and streets.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit's schedule shows a bid to cover about four to five assembly constituencies daily. On Wednesday the CM went eastwards while it was northeast on Thursday and northwest on Friday. Apparently, she is choosing constituencies where the Congress sees the contest can go either way. "We are trying to choose areas where either we are ahead by a small margin or behind by a small margin according to our internal surveys," sources said. Sheila's campaign usually begins and ends with the world class city dream, ranging from Metro to flyovers and promise of more infrastructure, irrespective of the venue.

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