In Puducherry, door to door canvassing and road shows, by candidates and political parties continue to dominate the campaigning. With election authorities keeping a close watch on poll expenditure and violations of the model code of conduct, the festive atmosphere usually associated with the elections is missing. AIR correspondent reports, personal attacks among contestants is conspicuously absent in Puducherry, a small union territory with an electorate of little over 8 lakhs. The political leaders here share a rare camaraderie. The electorate size of the biggest constituency is just 31,000. Meanwhile, the election department has geared up its machinery to distribute voter slips to every household from Tuesday. The distribution would continue till the Friday. Puducherry is the only state in the coming elections where voters possessing photo identity cards, only will be allowed to vote. The Election commission had organized special camps to issue duplicate photo identity cards to voters who had lost their cards. The congress party is leading a front comprising of the DMK, PMK and VCK while the NR congress is heading an alliance with the AIADMK, DMDK and CPI and CPM as partners. AIR correspondent reports, the dull campaign will surely gather pace as national leaders descend in the union territory to address big election rallies, far and few in this election. While congress President Mrs Sonia Gandhi is arriving in Puducherry on Tuesday, the party general secretary Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address an rally on the 8th , to boost the chances of the Congress and its allies The BJP which is working on a strategy to gain a foothold in the southern most part of the country is contesting 18 seats independently BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari and Sushma Swaraj are expected to campaign in the next couple of days. With the DMK and AIADMK playing the role of a junior partner in the front they figure in, the battle in the Union territory is between the Congress party and the newly formed political party floated by Ex congress Chief Minister Mr N.Rangaswamy. The winning of this election is crucial to both the parties.