Will coastal belt make do without a Rahul Gandhi blitz?
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Will coastal belt make do without a Rahul Gandhi blitz?

Deccan Chronicle  

Mangaluru: With barely a week to go for the April 18 Lok Sabha election in Karnataka, no rally of Congress president, Rahul Gandhi has been scheduled for the coast, making it perhaps the first poll in recent years in which a Nehru family member has not campaigned here. Although there were rumours of Congress leader, Priyanka Gandhi visiting Mangaluru, this doesn’t seem likely anymore, making the party campaign quite lacklustre along the coast these elections. In previous polls either former Congress president, Sonia Gandhi or Mr Rahul Gandhi had made it a point to address the people of Mangaluru and a team of senior and young Congress leaders and film stars held roadshows here. However, seeing that the BJP’s victory margin was 1.43 lakh in Dakshina Kannada the last Lok Sabha poll, Congress leaders feel campaigning by senior leaders and Mr Gandhi is important for the party to reach out to voters, who are unhappy with the BJP’s rule at the Centre and its sitting MPs, Nalin Kumar Kateel, Shobha Karandlaje and Anant Kumar Hegde.

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