A fierce battle of will between two of the top contenders for the Prime Minister's office has transformed a normally tranquil Varanasi, one of the world's oldest inhabited cities and India's spiritual nerve centre, into a symbolic battleground for political rivals Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi, both hoping to upstage each other in Lok Sabha elections 2014. And then there are the other contenders with their heavyweight party leaders who have also begun to arrive here.
Kejriwal, the driving force behind one of India's youngest political parties, the Aam Admi Party (AAP), has been camping in Varanasi for over a month now. On Saturday, Rahul Gandhi hit the roads, with thousands of supporters waving Indian flags and beating massive drums to campaign for the Congress's candidate Ajay Rai in the city. But it's not just the politicians who have disturbed the equilibrium of 'unchanging' Varanasi. The world media is camped here. Independent bloggers and common men and women eager to soak in the fanatic passion the world's biggest exercise in democracy generates have gathered here as party campaigns accelerated over the past few weeks.
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