Twenty months after the rape and murder of a young doctor inside Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital triggered nationwide outrage, the politics of that crime has caught up with Bengal’s election battlefield.
In Panihati, a constituency that for nearly six decades changed hands only between the Left and the Congress and later TMC, the April 29 contest is no longer just another election.
In this north Kolkata suburb, now regarded as a safe TMC seat, voters are being asked less about local grievances and more about a question that has haunted Bengal since August 2024: “Who failed the RG Kar victim, and who can still deliver justice?”
With the BJP fielding the victim doctor’s mother, the TMC defending a fortress built over three decades, and the CPI(M) trying to reclaim a protest movement it helped lead, Panihati has become the constituency where Bengal’s most emotionally charged issue is headed for its fiercest political test.
The BJP has fielded the victim doctor’​Twenty months after the rape and murder of a young doctor inside Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital triggered nationwide outrage, the politics of that crime has caught up with Bengal’s election battlefield.
In Panihati, a constituency that for nearly six decades changed hands only between the Left and the Congress and later TMC, the April 29 contest is no longer just another election.
In this north Kolkata suburb, now regarded as a safe TMC seat, voters are being asked less about local grievances and more about a question that has haunted Bengal since August 2024: “Who failed the RG Kar victim, and who can still deliver justice?”
With the BJP fielding the victim doctor’s mother, the TMC defending a fortress built over three decades, and the CPI(M) trying to reclaim a protest movement it helped lead, Panihati has become the constituency where Bengal’s most emotionally charged issue is headed for its fiercest political test.
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