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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Sobhana K. Nair

Guarantee cards: Congress’ gateway to voters’ minds

 

Every morning, between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., before the intensity of the heat rises, Congress worker Basvaraj Ajari Ghadhinglaj, 55, goes door-to-door in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur Lok Sabha constituency armed with the Congress’s “guarantee card”. 

While the Congress’s manifesto has been in the limelight with sustained attacks from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the guarantees that sum up the manifesto have become a conversation starter for workers like Mr. Ghadhinglaj among the voters. 

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