Stalwarts go missing from campaign trail

Uttar Pradesh: Assembly polls this time witnessed a generation shift with many bigwigs including SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav and Congress boss Sonia Gandhi missing the campaign trail in the first two phases. Even as the first phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls are over and campaigning for the second phase is to end tomorrow, senior leaders synonymous with electoral politics in the state were nowhere to be seen. After the pre-poll alliance of Samajwadi Party and Congress, their leaders Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi have bounced to the centrestage of campaigning. While Mulayam has kept himself away in the first two phases, Sonia Gandhi has also not joined campaign due to health reasons.