Shotgun Did Not Fire

Workers Disappointed By No Show

 

Just as I returned from a 20 days solitude from Nanded, I got a chance to attend the last rally of Bharatiya Janata Party in Pune. Coincidentally, I also attended the first rally from which the party kicked off its campaign in Maharashtra. That rally was addressed by Narendra Modi. 

This time  round, actor and ex-union minister Shatrughn Sinha was to attend a public rally at New English School. But the actor, who is also a BJP candidate from Patna Sahib in Bihar failed to turn up. Sinha was scheduled to address a rally at the venue in support of BJP candidate Anil Shirole. But Sinha, who is known for his habit of coming late failed to turn up at the venue on account of mysterios reasons.

It was said that Sinha’s speech was not planned beforehand. He just turned up in Pune yesterday and committed to speak on Tuesday. BJP’s poll managers decided to hold a public rally. But the Shotgun did not come up at the school ground even as activists and leaders of Shiv Sena-BJP waited for him. The period for campaigning came to end at 5 PM. As the deadline was approaching, anxious leaders started to address the rally themselves and completed the affair three minutes before the time. That also brought to end the hectic campaigning done by the alliance parties.

Like the first rally, there was no great enthusiasm in the speakers of the rally. But Modi could carry the show in the first rally which was not the case in the latest one. Though as the things stand out, there is much chance for Shirole this time as Suresh Kalmadi, sitting MP and Congress candidate is slugging ti out with the DS Kulkarni, the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.

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