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| Rahul Gandhi Can Try Road-Show |
| Rahul Gandhi Can Try Road-Show or Air-Show But Varanasi is Narendra Modi's, Says
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| INDIA
, 9-May-2014
13:7:47 PM |
| On the last day of campaigning in Varanasi, Rahul Gandhi, the Congress vice-president will hold a roadshow in India's holiest city from where Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, is contesting his first parliamentary election.
Mr Gandhi, 43, is leading his party's unlikely bid for a third straight term in power. His arrival in Varanasi is payback for Mr Modi's visit to Amethi last week, which Mr Gandhi has represented in Parliament since 2004.
Varanasi, one of the final contests in the world's biggest election, will choose between two of India's most talked-about politicians. (India Votes 2014: full coverage)
If the BJP's plan is successful, Mr Modi will emerge next week as Varanasi's member of parliament and India's prime minister. Opposing him is anti-corruption champion Arvind Kejriwal, who six months ago prevented the BJP from forming the Delhi government in a stunning electoral debut.
"Rahul Gandhi and Kejriwal can hold an air show... a road show... but Varanasi has made up its mind," said the BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad in Varanasi, about 400 kms east of Delhi.
Mr Modi, refused permission by the Election Commission to hold a rally in the heart of Varanasi on Thursday, retaliated with a drive-through. The huge crowds that assembled to watch his convoy, many of them cheering slogans in his support, meant his four-kilometre journey took three hours. "You cannot stop me," he had said earlier at a rally on the outskirts of the city
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