05-25-2008, 08:57 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Congress made 'stability' its main poll plank. But this only seems to have helped the BJP to re-kindle the sympathy factor by playing on the 'betrayal' by the JD-S.
The sudden spurt in food prices did nothing to help the Congress. It was forced on the defensive on the issue.
The BJP's campaign on the price rise seems to have paid dividends. The party used senior leader Sushma Swaraj's felicity with Kannada language to deadly effect.
<b>The TV campaign had Sushma telling people in Kannada how much rice, dal and cooking oil cost now and criticising the Congress failure to check rising prices.</b>
The ads showed a housewife giving a list of food items needed to the husband who in turn exclaims: "Where is the money to buy them?" The ads show children crying asking for food.
On terrorism, the campaign of the Congress and the BJP appears to have crossed each other out as both mocked the other's claim to fight terrorism and highlighting the terror attacks that took place when they were in power.
The BJP also poked fun at the Congress for failing to project anyone as chief minister while it had announced Yediyurappa as its nominee.
Senior leader LK Advani referred to this failure almost at every meeting. He would ask: <b>"When Congress comes seeking votes, ask them who is their captain?"</b>
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was in his elements while taking on the Congress for criticising state BJP leaders for saying that they will follow the Gujarat model in Karnataka.
"Dum hai Congress mein bolne ke liye weh Gujarat jaisa development-oriented shaasan deyenge! ((Does the Congress have the courage to say they will provide the Gujrat-type development oriented government?)," he ask at meetings to the applause of the crowd.
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<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The shock from Bangalore has come at a time when the UPA coalition at the Centre entered the election year amidst growing concerns over rising prices and a bleak future for the Indo-US nuclear deal.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The sudden spurt in food prices did nothing to help the Congress. It was forced on the defensive on the issue.
The BJP's campaign on the price rise seems to have paid dividends. The party used senior leader Sushma Swaraj's felicity with Kannada language to deadly effect.
<b>The TV campaign had Sushma telling people in Kannada how much rice, dal and cooking oil cost now and criticising the Congress failure to check rising prices.</b>
The ads showed a housewife giving a list of food items needed to the husband who in turn exclaims: "Where is the money to buy them?" The ads show children crying asking for food.
On terrorism, the campaign of the Congress and the BJP appears to have crossed each other out as both mocked the other's claim to fight terrorism and highlighting the terror attacks that took place when they were in power.
The BJP also poked fun at the Congress for failing to project anyone as chief minister while it had announced Yediyurappa as its nominee.
Senior leader LK Advani referred to this failure almost at every meeting. He would ask: <b>"When Congress comes seeking votes, ask them who is their captain?"</b>
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was in his elements while taking on the Congress for criticising state BJP leaders for saying that they will follow the Gujarat model in Karnataka.
"Dum hai Congress mein bolne ke liye weh Gujarat jaisa development-oriented shaasan deyenge! ((Does the Congress have the courage to say they will provide the Gujrat-type development oriented government?)," he ask at meetings to the applause of the crowd.
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<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The shock from Bangalore has come at a time when the UPA coalition at the Centre entered the election year amidst growing concerns over rising prices and a bleak future for the Indo-US nuclear deal.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->