Lok Sabha polls: This border town in West Bengal is looking for change

Bangaon is one of the key areas along the more than 2,000-km long India-Bangladesh border falling in West Bengal. Basirhat is another important border town which votes in the last phase on May 19

Petrapole, often called Wagah of the East, on the India-Bangladesh border, went about the customary change of guards at sunset on Thursday without a hint of elections. But just a few steps into the Bangaon city and municipality, the mood is charged. While some of the locals let the guard down, many others remain stubbornly tight-lipped about the waves and ripples that the 2019 Lok Sabha election has brought about in West Bengal. 

Bangaon in the North 24 Parganas District of West Bengal is looking for a change and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is gaining support. That’s the broad message