The Municipal Corporation election campaign guns will go silent on Tuesday at 5.30 pm. Candidates and party members swung into action to reach maximum people in two days. On Monday, maximum rallies and yatras were conducted. A roadshow by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and public meetings of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari are the two major aspects on the last day of the campaigning of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The roadshow of Fadnavis will start at 11 am on Tuesday from Bharatmata Chowk. It will pass through Teen Nal Chowk, Shahid Chowk, Tanga Stand Chowk, Gandhi Putla, Badkas Chowk, Mahal Chowk and will end at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue, Gandhi gate.

 

BJP has also organised meetings of Nitin Gadkari where he will address the gathering. The party has also planned prabhagwise rallies by the candidates. The candidates will hold rallies, padyatra in their respective prabhags, maximum of which are likely to be attended by City President Dayashankar Tiwari. Congress party has decided to hold bike rallies, padyatra in all 38 prabhags. Its City President Vikas Thakre has chalked out a schedule so that he will be able to become a part of maximum rallies and padyatras. Similarly, Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar) too has planned four major rallies in four different constituencies--Central, East, North and West. Its Working President Shrikant Shivankar said, “Apart from padyatras in the prabhags, where our candidates are contesting, we are holding rallies at four major locations in four constituencies so that our maximum candidates can be covered.”

 

On Monday, most parties conducted rallies, padyatras, door-to-door campaigns. This time, no prominent leader of any party except BJP came to Nagpur for campaigning. BJP roped in Manoj Tiwari, former minister Krupashankar Singh apart from their top leaders like Fadnavis, Gadkari and State Election in-charge Chandrashekhar Bawankule. The candidates of Bahujan Samaj Party, Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi, Aam Aadmi Party, Gondwana Loktantra Party, Republican Party, Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (SP), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and other parties organised rallies, padyatras. As usual, on the eve of voting, several social and community-based organisations have declared their support to prominent candidates of other parties.