Roja's seemingly never-ending personalized attack on health minister Aruna Kumari and her family seems to have caused an aversion among the electorate as the minister's family has reputation in the region.
This has frittered away the advantage Roja enjoyed and has helped her opponent to regain strength. Besides, Aruna Kumari's son and industrialist Galla Jayadev is undertaking some development work to woo voters for his mother.
Job-creation and empowerment of women and farmers are some of the initiative launched by Jayadev.
But Roja seems undeterred, “I had the edge and continue to have it. I shall win Chandragiri comfortably,” she told PTI.
Aruna Kumari, however, seems to be facing some internal trouble with a section of the Congress said to be working against her in a game of one-upmanship.