Porbander, Dec 03: The first thing that strikes one on hearing about Porbander is Mahatma Gandhi. But it's the local terror unleashed by "criminal-politicians" that dominates the electoral scene in Bapu's birthplace. District collector B H Ghodasaria believes that the crime rate in the region has gone down considerably. "There was a time when women could not move out after sunset. Now things are changing for the better," he says.