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Its boom time for traders dealing with campaign material

Kolkata: Its election time, but at Biren Natto's store in the Bowbazar area here, arch-rivals Trinamool Congress and CPI(M) or BJP and Congress bury their hatchets and co-exist.Natto is among the few traders who deal

During Assembly or other elections, we don't face shortage.

But, during the Lok Sabha elections, this is a perennial problem as artists get engaged in their hometowns with their own states also going to the polls,” he said.  

The age-old traders of campaign materials are also facing competition from new technology in their business.  

“Earlier it was all handmade stuff and use of printing machines, so the cost was more.