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Flashback 2009: In Pilibhit with Varun

NDTV journalist Sunetra Choudhury travelled widely across the country, including to constituencies in remote areas, during the campaign for the 2009 general election for her programme Election Express

NDTV journalist Sunetra Choudhury travelled widely across the country, including to constituencies in remote areas, during the campaign for the 2009 general election for her programme Election Express every evening. Her bus tour diary forms the basis of Braking News. In this excerpt, she writes of her last day on the road, when Pilibhit in UP went to the polls, and her encounter with controversial BJP candidate Varun Gandhi (now an MP).

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