kolkata beyond the glare of limelight fresh faces mostly women from various age groups have been quietly campaigning for trinamool chief mamata banerjee in bhowanipore reaching out to all gated communities and homes for a personal outreach being spearheaded by firhad hakims daughters priyadarshini and shabba on one end and mamata banerjees sisterinlaw kajari banerjee on the other along with a team of party workers led by mp mala roy these emissaries had been dropping in at highrises on alipore road harish mukherjee road shakespeare sarani sarat bose road and other parts of bhowanipore in a unique doortodoor campaignwe are proud supporters of mamata banerjee and we are thankful to the party that gave us the opportunity to lead this unique campaign as a woman we feel proud that our states head is a woman and she is the only woman chief minister of india we visited apartments in and around bhowanipore to showcase her developmental politics and had a very warm response from everyone said priyadarshini hakims elder daughter my mother has been the proposer for mamata banerjee every time she has contested in elections from this part of the city we share a family bonding but campaigning for her was an allnew experience and we loved every bit of it she addedpriyadarshini her sister shabba and mother ismat hakim focused on highrises on alipore road and chetla on the last day of the campaign where they visited mostly nonbengali households and spoke little about politics but more about sharing warm courtesies before making the poll pitch and asking them to vote for banerjee this thursdayprominent leaders handled the doortodoor campaigns in neighbourhoods throughout the day i also visited several old bhowanipore neighbourhoods with workers roaming in autos and rickshaws asking people to come out and vote on thursday but for the highrises i left the job to my wife she managed the highrise campaign schedule and we had a very successful campaigning said kartik banerjee mamata banerjees brother and senior party leaderpeople get tired seeing the same faces of political leaders every day with rallies being banned we decided to tweak our doortodoor campaigns by sending in fresh women faces who often have a deeper connect among a large section of residents mostly living in highrises and posh complexes said a senior party leader in charge of managing the campaign in bhowaniporewhile usual campaign tactics like doortodoor visits and those using loudhailers fixed on autos and rickshaws were also followed in multiple neighbourhoods of the constituency but for the highrises the campaign ploy was limited to personal interactions within individual flats without any slogan or party flags at places where visiting individual homes was not possible local councillors along with women leaders sat in the community centre parking lot or somewhere within the premises seeking votes for the chief minister