Kolkata, April 9 Ratna Debnath, the mother of the raped and murdered doctor at RG Kar hospital and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday.
She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders.
Speaking to reporters after filing her nomination, she said her sole aim is to remove the TMC regime in West Bengal, which, she alleged, would ensure women's safety in the state and prevent incidents like the RG Kar case from happening again.
Nearly a year and a half after the brutal killing of her 26-year-old daughter inside a locked seminar room of the state-run hospital in August 2024, Debnath agreed to contest the elections on a BJP ticket from her hometown, Panihati, after being approached by the party "to expose the truth behind the crime".
She is contesting against TMC's Tirthankar Ghosh and CPI(M)'s Kalatan Dasgupta.