Election Fever Brings Colorful Campaigns, but Uncertain Earnings for Balurghat Artists

Before the assembly elections, the oligarchy of Balurghat, the walls of the city from the village, are now covered with colors, spreads and political messages. Neither the TMC, nor the BJP, nor the Congress, nor the Left is lagging behind in the fight to capture this wall. But behind this colorful campaign, there is also a pale reality. There is a story of uncertain earnings and regrets of the wall artists. Pankaj Mahanta found out. Balurghat: As soon as the vote comes, their value increases. The calls of the political parties come one after another. Soon after their skillful hands, somewhere around the wall, flowers, somewhere lotus, somewhere hands, somewhere sickle-hammer, or spade-shovel. But the amount of work increases, but the remuneration does not. According to several painters of Balurghat, even if the price of colors, lime, everything increases, their wages are still stuck in the old figure. At the end of the 100 to 150 days of the election campaign, the political power of Balurghat is not limited to the political power of Balurghat.