Street play to woo voters

BJP candidate Ravi Subramanya contesting from Basavangudi and his followers have planned a street play, making a mockery at his Congress opponent and former MLA K Chandrashekhar.

One of the followers of Ravi Subramanya, said story of the play revolves around a character who begins his career as a milkman and within a span of few years becomes a crorepathi.

However the party has not yet got permission from the Election Commission to stage the street play.

Flower power here

BJP candidate N S Nandish Reddy chose a unique campaign mode for his tour of BEML Quarters near Malleshpalya of K R Puram: He presented a hundred lotus flowers to the women voters of the locality seeking their support for his victory.

The brain behind this unique mode of campaigning were apparently Nandish Reddy's friends, who thought it to be the best way to register the party's symbol in the minds of the voters.

But why present the lotuses only to a privileged few? Because the flowers are not easily available.

The party workers managed to collect a few flowers from the slush in Bellandur lake and from the HAL and K R Markets.

Likes and dislikes

In Ramanagara, supporters and fans of  former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy like him not because he is the son of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda (whom they don’t like), but because they like Kumaranna.

But in case of Mamtha Nichani, the Congress candidate, it is different. The supporters of the Congress say that they want to vote for the Congress candidate not because they like the candidate but because they respect her father - late Ramakrishna Hegde.

Of course, the voters also want to support her because she is the Congress candidate.

H D Kumaraswamy is seeking votes because of the good deeds he has done in Ramanagar as well as in the entire state. ]

If you ask him whether his father is campaigning for him and also whether the fact that he is son of Deve Gowda helps him fetching him votes in the vokkaliga dominated Ramanagara, Kumaraswamy quickly replies - I have grown on my own and I don’t need to use my father’s name.

But Mamtha sheds tears the moment she hears her father’s name.

“I am what I am because of my father. He was everything to me. Today people recognise me as Hegde’s daughter. I am so happy...”.

Doctor’s ‘camp’aign

This time, an astounding number of professionals have crowded the assembly electoral scenario. One of such new entrant to politics is an independent candidate from Shivajinagar constituency.

A homoeopathy doctor and a yoga and meditation guru, B K Prasad is campaigning on the strength of his earlier social activities like free medical camps and yoga camps.

An associate with “Anandamarga Universal Team”, a non governmental organisation for 29 years, Prasad assures of effective implementation of development schemes and improvement in civic amenities for his electorate.

However, he has not forgotten to include promises of organising “more medical camps, family planning camps, blood donation camps, and also felicitation to students obtaining distinction.”