led raths will tomtom bjp performance the bjp seems to have an obsession for raths modified vehicles it has harnessed 20 raths fitted with led technology to go around the 224 assembly segments for the next few days the raths will drum out the achievements of the bjp government over the past five years no individual candidate including the chief minister will get the limelight probably because there were one too many cms the raths will only highlight the achievements of the party said one senior leader these hitech raths will play out eight songs about the party and have slide shows for 30 minutes in crowded areas the promos will go on for 45 hours these are apart from the 18 ordinary raths already covering the roads of bangalore cityjoggers track turns into voters park how about some gyaan on voting as you go about your daily dose of exercise thats what vivekananda institute of leadership development vlead a part of the swami vivekananda youth movement is aiming for on saturday vlead is taking its voter education to kukkarahalli lake in mysore the picturesque water body that inspired poet laureate kuvempu as the joggers check in for some fresh air they are targeted by volunteers seeking their votes for the may 5 poll since its the educated class that comes here the ngo is focusing on them calling its initiative awareness while jogging the ngo is conducting similar drive at various places ahead of vday to improve the citys dismal poll percentagekrishna to skip mandya avoid ambareesh after covering bangalore for his party former union minister s m krishna has agreed to campaign in mandya his home district but only in select assembly constituencies its unlikely that krishna will campaign for candidates with whom he has strained ties including mh ambareesh over ticket distribution speculation was rife that the former cm would confine his election campaign to bangalore and skip mandya where he failed to get tickets for his supporters and things turned sour district congress committee spokesperson t s satyananda said krishna would campaign only in maddur nagamangala and kr pet segments where the candidates enjoy a good rapport with krishna the other four candidates are either those in direct confrontation or belong to his opponents campcommunity hurt by asnotikars remarks a complaint was filed with the election authorities against minister anand v asnotikar bjp candidate from karwar constituency alleging that the minister had insulted the hindu bhandari community terming it backward at a public meeting complainant prasad pednekar an advocate alleged that asnotikar had held a meeting of the bhandari community recently at kodibga in karwar where he spoke about the backwardness of the community and exhorted them to join the mainstream of society asnotikar also listed the efforts he had made to uplift the community pednekar is upset that by terming them backward the minister had hurt the feelings of the bhandaris looks like asnotikar suffered a sudden bout of footinmouth the netas popular affliction