“Appaji is coming to your doorstep to seek your votes… please come out,” a loudspeaker blared, while an electric buggy carrying the 92–year-old industrialist-turned politician Shamanur Shivashankarappa, slowly moved in a narrow lane of a residential colony in Davangere Cotton Mills area.
As the campaign vehicle moved around, men and women of all ages came out to see him and wave at him, as he waved back. Amid chants of “Congress victory” and bursting of firecrackers, some who know him personally walked up him to exchange pleasantries.
