Bella Ciao to 'Khela Hobe': Bengal Election campaign takes a quirky turn

In the run-up to the election, even as political mercury is on the rise, the state is feeling the heat in another rather refreshing way - an unprecedented battle of songs

The stakes are high in Bengal Elections this year.

If J P Nadda, PM Narendra Modi, and Amit Shah — the star campaigners of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) — were not enough to attest to that, the Election Commission's eight-phase schedule for Bengal that will stretch for well over a month surely would.

But even as the election nears and political mercury is on the rise, the state is feeling the heat in another rather refreshing way — an unprecedented battle of songs.

It all began months ago, when Trinamool Congress (TMC), the ruling party in the state, came