Local corruption trumps ‘Vishwaguru’, ‘democracy in danger’ on Bengal poll street
Aparajita Ghosh, an HR professional in a French multinational firm, who shuttles between Kolkata and Bangalore, is back in Serampore to cast her vote. Sipping cold coffee at Danish Tavern, the neat little cafe perhaps the only reminder of this Bengal area’s old colonial links to Denmark, she hasn’t warmed up to the BJP’s Vishwaguru campaign. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign trips are a drain on the exchequer and don’t add to much, she says.
