It was a little after 5 pm when BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi walked onto the stage at Ambedkar Nagar in south Delhi, fresh from attacking the Jammu and Kashmir government and the Centre at his rally in Jammu, he trained his guns again on the Congress. From the venue to his speech, Mr Modi's last rally in Delhi before the assembly elections here on Wednesday was full of symbolism. Mr Modi chose the same ground where exactly two weeks ago, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had held a public rally. The Congress couldn't gather the numbers to fill the ground, and despite Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's appeals to the crowd to stay on to listen to Mr Gandhi's speech, many did leave, leading to a major embarrassment for the Congress in the middle of a heated election season.
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