With less than a week left for the byelection in the Puthuppally Assembly constituency scheduled on September 5, the race to the finish line is picking up momentum by the day.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)], the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have ratcheted up their electoral rhetoric by deploying high-profile political heavyweights to wring a last-minute advantage at the hustings.
The parties have also ensured that public meetings and vehicle tours march in lockstep with a vigorous knock-on-doors, household-level campaign by their respective foot soldiers.
