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Bengal polls: Nandigram campaign turns into battle of two women

Nandigram, Sep 28 (UNI) The Nandigram bypoll campaign is increasingly boiling down to a fight between two women as BJP candidate Hasirani Rath seeks votes invoking her son's killing, while Arpita Pradhan has taken charge of the Congress campaign after her husband and party candidate Milan Pradhan was jailed in connection with cases dating back to the 2007 land agitation.
Rath, the mother of Chandranath Rath, a former aide of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari who was shot dead in Madhyamgram on May 6, has been campaigning across the constituency seeking support in the name of her slain son.
The BJP has projected Chandranath's killing as a major issue in the campaign. The case was initially investigated by the state police and an SIT before being transferred to the CBI.
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