UNI SPECIALNayanika SamantaKolkata, April 27 -- As the mercury rises in West Bengal, so does the rhythm of its poll slogans - pithy one-liners, pick-ups from advertisements and matching graffiti being rigorously channelled by political parties to needle rivals in the ongoing assembly polls.
Apart from campaign rallies, meetings, street corners, door-to-door visits, roadshows and sundry other forms of public outreach, a slogan war among the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has come as a breath of fresh air, as these do not hurt or wound, but rather amuse and tickle the funny bones.
Take, for instance, the TMC's slogan "Jotoi kato jora phool, bar...