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I have watched enough elections to grow cynical about them. Wins and losses don't mean that much after a while. One party replaces another. The machinery changes hands. The rhetoric stays the same. You start to wonder if any of it really matters.
The Bengal result cut through that cynicism.
Ratna Debnath, the mother of the young doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College in 2024, contested from Panihati on a BJP ticket. This was a TMC stronghold. She won by over 28,000 votes. She did not campaign on ideology or party loyalty. She campaigned on justice.
Rekha Patra, a homemaker from Sandeshkhali who spoke out against the violence and harassment women faced under local TMC leaders, won from Hingalganj. A woman with no political background, no resources, no machinery. She stood up, and the voters stood with her.
These are not typical electoral victories. These are people who were wronged by the system, who had every reason to retreat into grief or silence, and instead walked into the arena and beat the very machinery that failed them.
Elections produce winners and losers every cycle. That is routine. What is not routine is when the victim becomes the verdict. When the ballot becomes the instrument of accountability that the courts and the administration could not deliver fast enough.
This is what elections are supposed to do. Not just transfer power but settle a moral account. Bengal result made me less cynical about elections
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