Flags, festoons, ear-splitting percussion music, cacophonous loudspeaker announcements, and impromptu dancing marked the culmination of election campaign, as activists of the three major fronts in the Ernakulam constituency braved searing heat for their candidates at three major points in the city on Wednesday evening.
Excited activists more than compensated for missing fervour three years ago during the Assembly election as the Election Commission had banned it since polling was held in the shadow of the pandemic.
Activists of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) were the first to get off the block as a motley crowd to the accompaniment of a percussion team made it to Palarivattom Junction around 20 minutes before the grand finale was set to begin at 4 p.m. A few started shaking a leg to the ebb and flow of the music beats even as another was busy flashing the poster of the LDF candidate at motorists passing by.
