The Joraful-Padma fight is now in Kshir’s Karapa, Dedar is selling the sweet of the vote

On one is a double flower, on another is a lotus, on another is a sickle-hammer-star. Smile on your face. That said, the symbol of the political party can be eaten again! Yes, you heard right. Like other years of elections (Bengal Election 2026), this year too just before the assembly elections, a famous sweet shop in Bytaitala, Howrah Shivpur has prepared sweets with the symbols of various political parties. The sweet is carrying the message of Bengali camaraderie and culture in the heated situation of polling. Symbolic sweets are sometimes given by party workers to please the leaders.

Sometimes the supporters and workers of different political parties in the same family are distributing sweets painted with their party symbols among the family members to reduce the political heat before the polls (Bengal Election 2026). These political sweets are coming up just to maintain courtesy and camaraderie or as a bit of a publicity stunt. For the past one week, Dedar is selling election sweets in that sweet shop. Kshir’s sandesh is basically made with symbols of four parties namely Trinamool, BJP, CPM and Congress. These kheer sandesh are priced at 100 rupees each.

A pair of flowers are painted with latex and paint on a sandesh. Some have lotus flowers, some have hammer-and-sickle-stars, and some have handprints painted on them. Saikat Pal, the owner of the sweet shop in Byataitla, said, “We have been making sweets with the symbols of various political parties since before the 2011 assembly elections. The demand for sweets with the symbols of these political parties is very high. Common people like these sweets very much and they are buying these sweets. There is a demand for sweets with the symbols of the four parties. The work of making these sweets has started 15 days ago.”

Saikatbabur also said that apart from the general public, the workers of the four political parties are taking their leaders to buy sweets with party symbols as gifts. It is claimed that even the leaders are buying sweets with party symbols from his shop. Many candidates of political parties standing in Howrah headquarters in this year’s assembly elections have bought their party symbol sweets from this shop. Not only in Byataitala, two other branches of this sweet shop are selling these political sweets in Howrah Maidan and Podra Dedar.