A team of performers from different walks of life campaigned for Mamata Banerjee and her party through a skit in Jalpaiguri district on Thursday.
The troupe has readied as many as 15 skits, each of which is around 10-minute-long, to be held at street corners, particularly in rural pockets. Scripts have been prepared in Bengali, Rajbanshi, Nepali, Hindi and Sadri languages, keeping in mind the diverse demography of Jalpaiguri district.
“The basic idea is to tell people about the array of development initiatives that has been carried out by the Trinamul government since 2011, vis-à-vis the performance of the erstwhile Left Front government,” said Bhaskar Sarkar, the district media coordinator of Trinamul in Jalpaiguri.
He added that the team has people from different professions and are not actively associated with the party.
“Initially, the team is working in Jalpaiguri and Maynaguri Assembly constituencies. Eventually, they will perform skits in all seven constituencies of the district,” Sarkar said. They were sending the team to weekly markets in the rural areas and to key crossings in urban and semi-urban areas.