High voltage election campaign on the cards, top leaders set to hit streets of Vizag

By SNV Sudhir

Visakhapatnam, May 1, 2014: Poll campaigning has reached a feverish pitch with just five more days left fopr voting in Vizag. All political leaders are visiting the reion or planningt o, along with other districts in north Andhra.

BJP prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, TD supremo N Chandrababu Naidu along with Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan already visited Vizag on Thursday  to infuse enthusiasm  in their respective party cadres and boss their morale too.

While Modi and Pawan Kalyan left city after the meeting, Naidu stayed back in Vizag for the night  and held closed door meetings with the party leaders on election strategies. On Saturday, Goa, chief minister, Manohar Parikkar will be in the city to take part in the election campaig for BJP Lok Sabha and Vizag north assembly segment candidates, Kampbhampati Haribabu and P Vishnukumar Raju, respectively.

BJP has scheduled meetings of Goa CM with various elite groups in the city. As a Sunday attraction Bollywood’s yesteryear ‘dream girl’, Hema Malini, will also hit the streets in Vizag canvassing for BJP candidates.

On Saturday, YSRC chief, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, will be in Vizag for canvassing. After visiting several areas in and around Vizag, Jagan would address a public meeting at Indira Priyadarshini Municipal Stadium. YSRC leaders are pulling out all stops to make the public meeting a grand success.

On Monday as parting shot on the last day of the poll campaign, YSRC star campaigner, Sharmila, will be visiting Vizag and take up poll campaign. She will be touring many areas in the outskirts seeking votes for her mother, YS Vijayalakshmi, who is in fray for Vizag Lok Sabha.

 Meanwhile, Congress leaders seem happy with its chief, Sonia Gandhi and heir apparent Rahul Gandhi, cancelling their visit to the city in the last minute. Congress leaders feel the duo’s visit would have further damaged the prospects of the party and its candidates in the region , as people in Seemandhra are supposedly seething with anger at ruling Congress for state bifurcation.

Interestingly, barring, Rajyasabha, member Subbarmi Reddy, union minister, Chiranjeevi and PCC chief, Raghuveera Reddy no other prominent national level leader of the Congress visited north Andhra seeking votes for the party.