“Now we go to Didi when we have a problem. If the BJP comes to power, will we go to Delhi to seek help?” asks a young woman set to vote for the first time on Wednesday in the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections. The conversation takes place a stone’s throw from Mamata Banerjee’s two-room house on Harish Chatterjee Street in south Kolkata ’s Bhabanipur neighbourhood, where she has continued to live even as the Chief Minister. After a drawn-out campaign over the past month and a hectic last couple of weeks, campaigning in West Bengal will conclude on Monday. Bhabanipur is a small urban constituency in the heart of Kolkata that sent Banerjee to the Assembly in a 2011 bypoll after she ended the Left’s 34-year run in power and then again five years later. In 2021, Bhabanipur again sent the TMC chief to the Assembly in a bypoll after she lost the main battle to her former associate and now Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram. Bhabanipur is more than just another constituency.…