Bangalore: At dusk on Tuesday, curtains fell on an over-two-week hectic high-voltage campaigning by candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in the State.
The canvassing witnessed both the Congress and the BJP slug it out to cross the threshold of 20 seats in the April 17 elections, and the JD(S) making enough efforts to play spoilsport to the target set for themselves by the two national parties.
It has been two-and-a-half decades since any party secured more than 20 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state, a feat last achieved by the Congress in 1989. Both the Congress and the BJP have taken it as a prestige issue to cross the threshold.
