An unusually long election campaign stretching over 40 days in hot and humid conditions can be tiring for candidates as well party workers. But, none of that tiredness was visible on Wednesday as the three major political fronts in Thiruvananthapuram turned the grand finale of the campaigning into a virtual celebration with the parties attempting to outdo each other in pomp and loudness quotient.
Cranes seemed to be much in demand on the concluding day across Kerala for candidates to raise themselves above the crowd of party workers and have a bird’s eye view of the celebrations. At Peroorkada Junction, the major centre of finale in the city, United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate and three-time MP Shashi Tharoor was the first to perch atop a crane and greet the workers. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar soon went up on another crane, almost starting a competition as to who would get maximum elevation. True to the thrust of his campaign, Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate Pannian Raveendran chose to stand on the soil than fly high up.
