Babushona Sarkar is 27-year-old CPI(M) candidate from the Ranaghata constituency and sells tea at the hole-in-a-wall shop for a living.
"Will you be the next Narendra Modi?" A question that is often asked at Babushona Sarkar's tea shop on platform number 2 at Aranghata railway station in West Bengal's Nadia district.
The 27-year-old is the CPI(M) candidate from the Ranaghata constituency and sells tea at the hole-in-a-wall shop for a living. But Mr Sarkar is in no mood for comparisons. The youngest candidate this election and also one of the poorest, he says, "He (PM Modi) is in his place and I'm in mine."
Over cups of tea at his stall as trains whizzed past, Mr Sarkar tells NDTV that he had Rs 700 in his bank account when he began his election campaign. "The money has remained completely untouched," he says. His campaign was crowd-funded and it is this blessing of the people that he believes will convert into votes come May 19, when results will be counted.
His parents who started the tea shop 30 years ago, are however, not counting their chickens before they hatch. "I don't like telling people that my son is becoming a MLA. Pride is not good. It brings bad luck," his mother Bharati tells NDTV.
"We worked very hard to bring him up. The shop yields a profit of about Rs 100 a day... If he wins, my life will have gained fruition," says his father Rangalal.
West Bengal voted in six phases for assembly elections; results will be declared on May 19.