The electioneering picked up towards the fag end with a clear sky helping leaders to hop from one place to another to beat tomorrow's deadline.
Campaigning for the January 30 assembly elections in Uttarakhand, which saw heavyweights of major political parties criss-crossing the hill state in spite of snow fall and intense cold, comes to an end tomorrow.
The electioneering picked up towards the fag end with a clear sky helping leaders to hop from one place to another to beat tomorrow's deadline.
Bad weather hampered the movement of leaders during the initial period, forcing last minute cancellation of visits by leaders like BJP president Nitin Gadkari and some others, prompting the ruling party in the state to request the Election Commission to postpone the poll schedule.
Chief Minister BC Khanduri made the best use of the clear sky today to undertake helicopter rides to a number of places in the state to woo the voters in favour of BJP.
All the 70 constituencies, where 788 candidates are in the fray, go to polls simultaneously on Monday.
"The countdown has begun. We have just one day left so all our leaders are busy in campaigning," said a state Congress spokesperson.
During the no holds barred canvassing, opposition Congress attacked the ruling party accusing it of frequently changing chief ministers to erase the taint of alleged scams in the government.
The Congress asked the people to vote for development and promised to give industry status to tourism sector, if it came to power.
Hitting back at Congress, the BJP raked up the Bofors scam during the Rajiv Gandhi government. It also referred to scams in 2G spectrum allocation, Commonwealth Games and Adarsh Housing Society.
With the Election Commission keeping a strict vigil on poll expenditure, the usual cacophony associated with electioneering was missing this time.
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