Amritsar, May 11 (IANS) Top leaders of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) focussed on Punjab’s Amritsar parliamentary seat Monday - the last day of campaigning for the fifth and final phase of the 2009 general elections to be held Wednesday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi jointly addressed an election rally for Congress candidate Om Prakash Soni at the upscale Ranjit Avenue area of this Sikh holy city.

This was their first joint rally in the entire election campaign. Both leaders criticised the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the BJP for not doing anything for the farmers and the poor of the country.

The prime minister later addressed a rally at Tarn Taran in Khadoor Sahib parliamentary constituency, 50 km from here.

Congress candidate Soni is pitted against cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu of the BJP for the Amritsar seat.

In Majitha town, near here, which forms part of the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani addressed a rally in favour of Sidhu.

The NDA had Sunday put up a big show of strength of its allies in the industrial city of Ludhiana.

Nine parliamentary seats in Punjab go to the polls Wednesday to decide the fate of 139 candidates.

Four parliamentary seats of the state went to the polls May 7.