The high voltage campaign in the Lok Sabha elections came to an end on Tuesday in 117 seats spread across 12 states going to polls on Thursday in the sixth of nine phases of polling. The campaign came to an end at 6 pm, when leaders wound up public addresses and workers fanned out for house-to-house canvassing 36 hours ahead of polling. Prominent leaders whose electoral fortunes will be decided include Union ministers Salman Khurshid, Milind Deora, Namo Narayan Meena, Jitendra Singh and Tariq Anwar, leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, president Pranab Mukherjee?s son Abhijit, actor-turned-politician Hema Malini of BJP, and former cricketer Mohd Azharuddin. Seeking to exploit national as well as local issues to the hilt, leaders of major political parties raised contentious issues, inviting complaints from opponents that they were making hate speeches.
BJP blocks website access in Pak, its PM candidate?s is on People in Pakistan cannot access the BJP website as the saffron party has blocked its internet page though its high-profile prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi?s portal can be accessed by those who want to know about him. ?Error 1009: The owner of this website (bjp.org) has banned your IP address on the country or region you are accessing it from,? says the page as one logs in from there. People logging in from Pakistan have to use Virtual Private Network, masking Pakistani IP addresses to log into the BJP website. The party had attached on its Twitter handle links to a ?charge sheet? it had recently released against the UPA government but the links did not work for those logging in from Pakistan.
