The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and a lacklustre industrial climate along the banks of the Hooghly river could dominate polling in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election in West Bengal on May 20.
Bongaon and Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas district, Sreerampur, Hooghly and Arambagh in Hooghly district, and Howrah and Uluberia in Howrah district will vote as the poll caravan reaches the fringes of Kolkata.
In 2019, the BJP had won Bongaon, Barrackpore and Hooghly, while the Trinamool Congress had won Howrah, Uluberia, Sreerampur and Arambagh. While Barrackpore, Howrah and Sreerampur are urban constituencies, Bongoan, Arambagh, Hooghy and Uluberia are primarily rural.
