Phase 7 of West Bengal polls: The 36 seats where Didi has struggled in the past  

Bhabanipur is one of the four seats from Kolkata that will be voting in phase seven. Apart from that, there are six seats from Dakshin Dinajpur district, six from Malda, 11 from Murshidabad, and nine seats from Pashchim Bardhaman district, that are up for polls in the seventh phase of West Bengal Assembly elections.

Bhabanipur, scheduled to vote on April 26, is no ordinary constituency. It has been represented twice - in 1957 and in 1962 - by Siddhartha Shankar Ray, who went on to become the chief minister of West Bengal in 1972. Following the fall of the Left Front government in 2011, chief minister Mamata Banerjee, then an MP, chose Bhabanipur to enter the West Bengal assembly. FROM CAKEWALK TO TIGHTROPE