Click to play videoNew Delhi: The election war has just started and it's gone into writing too. Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda of the Third Front, Sudheendra Kulkarni of the NDA and Abhishek Manu Singhvi of the UPA have initiated a heated debate on CNN-IBN's exclusive election web site www.ibnpolitics.com.
This is what Deve Gowda wrote on his first ever blog in which he predicted a 1996-like situation that made him the Prime Minister: "These parties (The Third Alternative) are going to play the most crucial role in the formation of next government at the Centre. The BJP or NDA's prime ministerial candidate, L K Advani, will find himself miles away from the Prime Minister's chair on the day of the results. The ruling UPA will also be faced with the same or a similar situation."
BJP's idealogue and L K Advani's aide Sudheendra Kulkarni hit back at Gowda's Third Alternative as well as the Congress through his blog. He thinks that Advani is unstoppable.
"Yes, L K Advani is 81 but judge him by his energy, day-long activity, constant travels around the country, enthusiasm, intellectual alertness, articulation, knowledge and experience. Is anyone ready from the Congress to take him on?" Kulkarni wrote.
Meanwhile, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi is confident that the UPA is still ahead in the race.
Singhvi wrote: "The Congress has young people in position as soldiers of the party, as office bearers, as young ministers and in positions of governance. They connect immediately to a role model like Rahul Gandhi whose sincerity of purpose and complete absence of hypocrisy and doublespeak has been found to be refreshingly different."
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