As the political tempo rises in West Bengal’s high-stakes Assembly election, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has reached out to Kolkata’s Chinese community by appealing for support in Mandarin. TMC’s Topsia candidate Jawad Khan has reached out to Chinatown voters in their own language. Khan has put up graffiti in Mandarin on the walls of Tangra, once a tannery hub established in the 1920s and now a thriving restaurant district serving authentic Chinese cuisine, to bolster his re-election campaign. The older Chinese settlement is in central Kolkata’s Tiretta Bazar. The two together make up the estimated 4,000 Chinese population in…
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