02-08-2008, 12:36 PM
<b>Lotus blooms in bypoll at red den</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The election was significant for the BJP in many aspects. While it would bear a direct impact on the state polls, due in November 2008, the victory of the saffron brigade in the red bastion would boost cadresâ confidence, especially since workers in most rural pockets spend sleepless nights.
<b>To win this bypoll, the ruling party pulled all strings to bag votes. Ministers campaigned extensively in the constituency despite the fact that most had previously preferred to not spend a night in the Maoist strongholds in the past four years, ever since the BJP came to power in the state. More than six ministers stayed in the red bastion and supervised the electioneering this time.
On the other hand, the Congress candidate was more cautious. Its leaders preferred to keep away and senior leaders spent only a few hours before rushing back to the capital, some 200km from Keshkal, in the evenings.</b>
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This is scary.
<b>To win this bypoll, the ruling party pulled all strings to bag votes. Ministers campaigned extensively in the constituency despite the fact that most had previously preferred to not spend a night in the Maoist strongholds in the past four years, ever since the BJP came to power in the state. More than six ministers stayed in the red bastion and supervised the electioneering this time.
On the other hand, the Congress candidate was more cautious. Its leaders preferred to keep away and senior leaders spent only a few hours before rushing back to the capital, some 200km from Keshkal, in the evenings.</b>
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This is scary.