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In Kasauli, it's a fight between technology and tradition

Close contest in last election led to chief minister Virbhadra Singh himself taking a keen interest in campaigning

Virbhadra Singh
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Virbhadra Singh

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar | The Wire
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress are fighting two very different battles in the Kasauli assembly constituency.

In 2012, in the last assembly elections, the saffron party’s Rajiv Sahjal barely edged out the Congress’s Vinod Sultanpuri by a slender margin of 24 votes. Sultanpuri and Sajhal will face off against each other yet again this time, with both parties leaving nothing to chance.

The close contest last time has led to chief minister Virbhadra Singh himself taking a keen interest in the campaigning. The BJP, on the other hand, has set up one of its six war rooms in the