hyderabad the election commission of indias eci new norm that all nonlocal leaders should leave pollbound huzurabad constituency 72 hours before polling has come as a jolt to parties who are now reworking their strategiestop leaders of the trs bjp and congress who are not voters of huzurabad assembly segment in telangana have been camping in the constituency for the last three monthsthey have been personally monitoring and implementing strategies and participating in campaigns all such nonlocal leaders will have to leave huzurabad constituency by wednesday evening ahead of the bypoll to the constituency on saturdaysources said the thinktanks of the three parties have started making strategies to maintain the connection with the voters through their local leaders until the polling is overif the campaigning in the last few months was important the last 72hours before the polling are even more crucial for the three parties to win the elections the local leaders and sleeper cells will get activated and their role in alleged distribution of money liquor and other freebies would have a lot of impact on the poll prospects of the candidates in the fray said a political observerthe chief electoral officer shashank goel told toi that the eci keeping in view the covid19 situation in the country has laid down the new guideline that campaign through loudspeakers road shows and public meetings will come to an end 72 hours before the polling as against the 48hour earlier norm the election authorities will strictly implement the normthe leaders who are not voters of the constituency have to leave the area by 7pm on wednesday however the local leaders can make doortodoor visits of the voters up to 48 hours before the polling shashank goel said former minister eatala rajender told the people on sunday said all top leaders who are coming from outside the constituency and promising sops schemes projects will go awayonly i will remain here amongst you and only i will deliver the promises made to you by me they are not going to come back once elections are over he said finance minister t harish rao who has been spearheading the campaign for the ruling trs said gellu srinivas yadav was a local candidate who would continue to work for the welfare of the people of huzurabad also he promised the people that he would personally visit huzurabad every month and ensure the implementation of all promises made by himeven the congress is depending upon its local leaders to toil hard and ensure victory of party candidate balmoor venkat