Poll Pot

The magician who will ride on the rath through the state is Sujit Chakravarthy, a party member and a professional magician and the brain behind the project. “Through a variety of magic tricks we will try to project the achievements of the BJP Government and convince people why it should be returned to power,” state BJP general secretary Rahul Sinha said. While the Left parties and the Congress may call all this just an illusion, the saffron party certainly needs a trick or two to break into the red citadel.

Text by SABYASACHI BANDOPADHYAY, Photo by SUMAN GHARAI