India, April 28 -- I was three failed attempts down and almost about to give up on booking a taxi for West Bengal's notorious constituency of Bhangar when a fourth agreed to take me there, only to reveal later that he too is a fan of the MLA - Nawsad Siddique - whose outfit Indian Secular Front (ISF) was the only opposition party except the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to win a seat in the 2021 state assembly elections.

The three cab drivers first accepted the booking then cancelled after hearing the destination, forcing me to wonder if it was Bhangar constituency's notorious reputation that made them do so.

For Raju Ghosh, the cabbie who agreed to go there, my trip's purpose of meeting Nawsad Siddique that he overheard in a phone conve...