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Ther Bharatiya Janata Party connected Wednesday (March 25, 2026), fielded the parent of the doc who was raped and murdered astatine Kolkata’s R.G. Kar Hospital and Medical College successful August 2024.
The parent of Abhaya (the unfortunate was called Abhaya by protesters who took to the streets successful protests) volition contention from Panihati successful North 24 Parganas. The enactment announced the names of candidates for 19 much constituencies successful West Bengal connected Wednesday evening. A fewer days ago, Abhaya’s parent had confirmed that she volition contention from Panihati Assembly spot connected a BJP ticket. Several BJP leaders including Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari had reached retired to the household convincing the parent to contention the polls.
She had criticised a conception of leaders of the Left parties accusing them of utilizing the decease of her girl for governmental gains.
The protests implicit the gruesome transgression that went connected for months successful 2024 was 1 of the biggest challenges faced by the Mamata Banerjee authorities successful her 3rd word prompting radical to rise questions connected deteriorating instrumentality and bid concern and information of women. Thousands of radical had descended connected the streets of the metropolis for months seeking ‘ Justice for Abhaya’. Junior doctors of all-State tally institutions went connected a onslaught for weeks.
The Kolkata Police had arrested a erstwhile civic unpaid for the crime. In January 2025, a tribunal successful Sealdah sentenced the erstwhile civic constabulary volunteer for beingness imprisonment. The Central Bureau of Investigation has taken implicit the lawsuit arsenic per directions of the Calcutta High Court but could not marque overmuch headway successful the case, contempt a fig of conspiracy theories going astir successful transportation with the horrific crime.
A week agone Abhaya’s parent had criticised a conception of leaders pf Communist Party of India (Marxist) claiming that they had utilized the decease of her girl arsenic a governmental opportunity. CPI(M) West Bengal caput Md Salim had urged her not articulation immoderate governmental party. “We person ne'er asked the victim’s parents to beryllium [with the] CPI(M). We person lone tried to basal beside them... We had nary summation successful helping the family, but the Trinamool Congress and BJP person their vested interests,” Mr. Salim had said.
Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said that it was Kolkata Police which had arrested the convict and the consequent bureau CBI has besides held the aforesaid conviction. “There person been respective incidents of onslaught connected women successful BJP-ruled States and by BJP leaders. Joining specified a enactment you are asking for justness for Abhaya,” Mr. Ghosh asked.
Tirthankar Ghosh, lad of outgoing Panihati MLA and State’s Minister Nirmal Ghosh, is contesting connected a Trinamool summons successful Panihati constituency. CPI(M) has fielded Kaltan Dasgupta arsenic its campaigner successful that constituency.
The BJP’s 3rd database of candidates includes respective candidates from northbound Bengal. Rathindranath Bose has been fielded from Cooch Behar Dakshin portion Dinesh Sarkar was nominated from Raiganj. BJP has fixed tickets to Chiranjit Roy successful Islampur, Haripada Barman successful Hemtabad, Amlan Bhaduri successful English Bazar.
In southbound Bengal, Swapan Das volition contention from Shantipur successful Nadia portion Biplob Mandal has been fielded successful Howrah Central constituency, Arupkumar Das From Singur, Dipanjan Kumar Guha From Chandannagar, Dipanjan Chakraborty from Uttarpara among others.
West Bengal volition spell to polls successful 2 phases connected April 23 and 29 for 294 Assembly seats. The results volition beryllium announced connected May 4.
