For eight years, they have looked at him to deliver the goods as their elected representative in Lok Sabha. As Pranab Mukherjee is now all set to move to Rashtrapati Bhavan, Jangipur was elated as people cutting across political and religious lines distributed sweets and danced in joy.

But somewhere down the line a tinge of gloom prevailed in the constituency in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district with many seemingly sombre at losing their dear ‘Pranabda’ or ‘Pranabbabu’ as the local MP.u00a0Mukherjee, who once regretted that people called him a “rootless wanderer” as he had till then never won a direct election, got his first taste of Lok Sabha victory in 2004 and then retained the seat with a bigger margin in 2009.