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The gateway to the city woke up late on election day, at little past eight in the morning. A single file of cabs at the pre-paid booth queued up for passengers. The long-distance trains were yet to arrive. Tea and paan shacks were starting their business.
Inside, an empty Danapur-Howrah Express stood on platform 8 before being tugged to the carshed.
Senior technician P.K. Bhattacharya was on his way to Bamungachi Electric Shed where the locos of the arriving trains would be taken for inspection and repair. I have been with the railways since 1977 and have never missed duty on election days. The volume of traffic is a little low today, he said.
Sudhakar and five of his colleagues from the CRPF had sprawled themselves on the platform. With their Air India flight cancelled because of the pilots' strike, the jawans had to travel across the city to Howrah and are waiting for the 3.30pm Saraighat Express on their way to Dimapur.
We came straight to the station from the airport. We didn't want to take any chance and so arrived early, discount bridal swarovski crystals ; said Sudhakar. So did most passengers of the 10.10am Santiniketan Express, like Subal Sakha Mandal and his wife Malati, who were on their way to their hometown in Burdwan to cast their vote.
favours for weddings ;Some porters were squatting on platform No 12. Seventy-year-old Raghubir Yadav, a resident of Mallickphatak in Howrah, was looking for some early customers. Kuch rozgar ho jaye, phir mein bhi jaunga vote dene (Let me earn a quick buck and then I, too, will go and vote), he said.
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On Bankim Setu, adjacent to the station, traders who had assembled for Mangalar Haat complained of lean business. Uttam Saha of Dum Dum was among those who had lined the eastern footpath of Bankim Setu with readymade children's dresses evening dresses dresses evening dresses dresses, trousers, lungis, shirts and underwear.
I normally sell 50 dozens every Tuesday. I will consider myself lucky if I can sell 25 today, said Saha.
Thanks to the poll, haat was confined to the bridge and the rest of the town was spared the usual Tuesday snarls.
Shibpur
Down Bankim Setu, through Foreshore Road and on to Shibpur, Howrah seemed only half awake. Amid the clutter of closed shacks and shuttered gates, a handful of sweet shops, cellphone recharge outlets and garages were open. Some with a sprinkling of customers, others empty.
At the Bengal Engineering and Science University, it was a holiday. Teachers and other employees who live on the campus had queued up at the Institute Hall on the campus to cast their vote.
Professor Bhabani Prasad Mukhopadhyay, who was cycling back home after getting his finger inked, said: It's a different atmosphere here compared with outside. There's not a whiff of political activity here.
A group of students in bermudas and chappals ambled past. The ambience is affable, said Ajit Biswal, a fourth-year student of metallurgy. He could not go home to Madhyamgram to vote on April 27 because of exams.
The Besu campus had a second booth at BE College Model School, where the voters were mostly residents of College Street that runs parallel to the campus.
Indian Botanic Garden
Besu's next-door neighbour hardly had half a dozen visitors at 11 in the morning. Helen E from France had arrived in Calcutta on Monday for a tour of the wonderful city. After a quick visit to Kalighat, she was in the garden, paying scant attention to the guide who was rattling off names of the trees. blue bridesmaid dresses under 100 It's beautiful out here, she gushed, absorbing the greenery around.
Belur Math
Around noon, it was siesta time at the global headquarters of Ramakrishna Math and Mission. As the imposing gates closed on visitors, Santanu Maharaj let in a couple of journalists. We do not vote, said the saffron-clad monk. Sheafs of voters' slips were stapled together on his table.
We need to have our voter identity cards for they are mandatory as identity proof these days. Not all can have passports made, he said.
Howrah station
A cacophony of horns from cabs, bargain evening dresses uk bargain evening dresses uk buses and private vehicles on the way back to the station at 1.10pm suggested activity had peaked.
Announcements over the public address system got drowned out by the general buzz as passengers swarmed in. A fair, petite Aida Myrgren from Sweden was waiting for her train to Mumbai on platform 8. She has been touring the country for the past three months and returned from Darjeeling on Monday.
I am waiting for the Gitanjali Express and also getting the sun on my skin, said the 20-year-old waitress, showing off her mild tan.