Candidates are devising new campaign methods and timing them to match voters’ movements in summer. Almost all of them have taken up campaigning in parks, hills and gardens. The time they choose is early in the morning, when in a bid to beat the summer heat, most people visit such spots.

Sarasbaug, the city’s biggest garden, had become the favourite where a large crowd can be seen in the mornings.

With the mercury rising to 38 DegreeC, citizens prefer to remain indoors in the daytime making it difficult for candidates to reach out to them through roadshows.

Not to be outdone, the candidates are exploring all possible ways to overcome the disadvantage of reaching the voters during daytime.

“The high mercury level has made the campaigning difficult, but there cannot be any excuse with limited time at hand. It has forced me to plan the campaigning in a way so that there is optimum use of time,” BSP candidate D S Kulkarni said.

“I start at 6 in the morning by visiting people in the gardens and parks across the constituency. I have also made it a point to visit as many kattas to join the peoples gathering on Tilak Road, F C Road, J M Road and other parts of the city”.

Since, it is difficult to reach to people thereafter due to heat, Kulkarni opts for meeting prominent personalities and opinion makers during the time before reaching the party office in the evening to discuss on the campaign.

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