He came, they congregated. He spoke, they cheered.

It was hysteria for a while, and then ennui. This sums up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election rally in Jodhpur on 3 December, to garner support for his party’s candidates ahead of the assembly polls.

As the campaign for the Rajasthan assembly elections ends on Wednesday evening (5 December), candidates have started settling into their constituencies for the final salvo, and the star campaigners are making their final bid to persuade voters.