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.
WB polls: RG Kar case looms over Panihati as victim’s mother enters contest
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