In Bengal, the air is thick with anticipation. The Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party put up a strong fight, both equally determined, one to retain power in the state, the other to gain it.
The election results will be announced on May 4. If the BJP wins West Bengal, it will end 15 years of the Trinamool Congress’s rule and signal an ideological victory for a party that has long struggled to make inroads into the state’s politics and culture.
As the state went to the polls in two phases, I travelled around Kolkata, sketchbook in hand, attempting to capture the city’s many moods.
It is 4.30 pm on April 23 and 152 of West Bengal’s 294 constituencies are voting in the first phase of the assembly elections. In the BJP office in Kolkata’s Salt Lake, party workers mill about, presumably charged with important work that needs to be completed before the end of the day. Crisply uniformed guards stand at attention under a bright orange shamiana, keeping an eye on all entering or leaving the premises.
At the entrance sits a receptionist, dressed in a navy blue saree, hair pulled neatly back into a bun. She asks me to wait on one of the many chairs...
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